Report: Ex-Goldman banker Roger Ng seeks to serve 10-year sentence in ‘Orange is the New Black’ prison
KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 — Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc banker Roger Ng is reportedly seeking to spend his 10-year jail term for his role in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal in the low-security US federal facility that served as the inspiration for the women’s prison in Netflix’sAccording to a report by Bloomberg, Ng’s lawyer Marc Agnifilo wrote to US District Judge Margo Brodie asking that she recommend the “lowest-possible designation” in the facility for male and female inmates...
In the letter, Agnifilo argued that Ng requires mental health treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder following his six-month stint in a Malaysian prison while awaiting extradition to the US for trial. The Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury is known as a “celebrity” prison because it has housed personalities such as entrepreneur Leona Helmsley who was jailed for tax evasion in the early 1990s, as well asIn June 2022, disgraced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who was the former partner of financier Jeffrey Epstein, also asked to serve her 20-year sentence for sex trafficking in Danbury but was sent to a Florida prison instead.
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