Aug
13
Top Goldman Traders Caught Up in Tango With Flamboyant Financier
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New BTIG Europe CEO was fired from Goldman over Windhorst deal
- U.A.E. broker said to be involved in the troubled transaction
The 223-foot yacht sat off the sunburnt Sardinia coast as top executives of Goldman Sachs climbed aboard.
It was August 2015, and Michael Daffey and John Storey arrived with their wives to cultivate a seemingly unlikely client: Lars Windhorst, a controversial German financier whose checkered history had, at least for a time, left many in financial services wary of doing business with him…