In a jam: Goldman and 1MDB

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In a jam: Goldman and 1MDB

• in a jam 陷入困境，事情搞得一团糟；处于困境

1. Rolling Stone once dubbed Goldman Sachs a “vampire squid...jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money”.

• Rolling Stone (美国)《滚石》杂志
• dub 为(影片,广播节目等)配音；译制(影片)

2. But the $600m it earned arranging bond offerings for 1MDB, a Malaysian state-development fund hit by a giant fraud, looks like an extraction too far.

• fraud 骗子；欺诈罪；欺骗罪；行骗的人
• extraction 提取；开采；提炼；拔出

3. Investigators think much of the $6.5bn raised went astray.

• go astray 走错路；误入歧途

4. American authorities have charged Jho Low, a Malaysian financier, and two former Goldman men; of them, Tim Leissner, the ex-head of its South-East Asian business, has pleaded guilty.

5. This week the bank will meet American prosecutors to argue that the scam was down to a few rogues and that Goldman, as a victim, should not face tough sanctions.

• rogue 恶棍；无赖；乞丐；骗子

6. Awkwardly, Mr Leissner said his efforts to conceal his actions from compliance colleagues were “very much in line” with Goldman’s culture.

• conceal 隐蔽；把…隐藏起来；掩饰

7. And it has emerged that Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman’s boss at the time, met Mr Low at least once.

8. The squid is squirming.

• squid 鱿鱼
• squirm 蠕动；蠢动；折腾；觉得不好意思

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