Goldman Shaves $2 Billion From Quarterly Profit -- WSJ
08 Agosto 2020 - 2:02AM
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By Liz Hoffman
This article is being republished as part of our daily
reproduction of WSJ.com articles that also appeared in the U.S.
print edition of The Wall Street Journal (August 8, 2020).
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. restated its second-quarter earnings
lower Friday after reaching a $3.9 billion settlement with the
government of Malaysia to resolve a long-running investigation into
its work for a corrupt investment fund.
That settlement, reached last month just after the quarter's
end, reduced the bank's earnings by $2 billion to $373 million, or
53 cents a share. Previously it had reported profits of $2.4
billion, or $6.26 per share, holding steady during a stretch in
which the coronavirus pandemic hammered other banks' results.
Under the settlement, Goldman will pay $2.5 billion in cash to
the Malaysian government to settle allegations that it enabled the
theft of billions of dollars from the fund, known as 1MDB. It also
guaranteed the recovery of $1.4 billion in assets allegedly stolen
from the fund.
The bank set aside an additional $2 billion in legal provisions
in the quarter, according to Friday's filing, much of which is
likely to go to the U.S. Justice Department to settle its
allegations related to 1MDB. Federal prosecutors have accused
Goldman of violating antibribery and corruption laws by ignoring
warning signs at 1MDB in pursuit of deal fees that ultimately
exceeded $600 million.
The Wall Street Journal reported in December that U.S.
prosecutors were seeking a fine of around $2 billion on top of a
guilty plea by a Goldman subsidiary and ongoing oversight of the
bank's compliance procedures.
All in, the 1MDB affair is likely to cost Goldman more in
penalties than the $5.1 billion it paid to settle government
investigations into its mortgage-trading activities around the 2008
housing crisis. It didn't admit to wrongdoing then.
Write to Liz Hoffman at liz.hoffman@wsj.com
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