Ex-Goldman Banker Roger Ng Seeks Leniency in 1MDB Scandal

Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc banker Roger Ng, the only employee of the bank to be tried and convicted over the global 1MDB scandal, asked a US judge not to send him to prison for his role in the epic looting of the Malaysian fund.

Ng’s lawyers said in a filing early Saturday to a federal judge in Brooklyn, New York, that the 50-year-old native of Malaysia has suffered enough, having spent six months in a Malaysian prison and four years alone under house arrest in the US.

Roger Ng departs from federal court in the Brooklyn, New York, in April 2022.

Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg

“He was incarcerated under brutal and cruel conditions in a ...