NEW YORK: A U.S. trial stemming from an audacious scheme to ransack a Malaysian state investment fund known as 1MDB resumed Tuesday (March 1) with a defence lawyer attacking the credibility of the government’s star witness, focusing on his history of lying about his marital status.
In his first day on cross-examination at the trial in federal court in Brooklyn, former Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner (pic) admitted he forged documents in 2014 to dupe his now-estranged wife, Kimora Lee Simmons, into believing he was divorced so she would agree to marry him. Simmons was a model, reality TV personality and ex-wife of rap mogul Russell Simmons.
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