It’s too bad for Fabrice Tourre, the former Goldman Sachs securities trader, that the portfolio manager on Goldman’s notorious ABACUS investment vehicle, isn’t a foreign company. If it were, Tourre might have entirely escaped Securities and Exchange Commission charges that he engaged in securities fraud in structuring and marketing the ABACUS synthetic collateralized debt obligation. Under a June 10 ruling by Manhattan federal district court judge Barbara Jones, Tourre is off the hook for allegedly defrauding ABACUS investors IKB and ABN Amro because they’re foreign companies that dealt with overseas-based Goldman entities. So at least for those companies, Tourre’s actions fall outside the purview of U.S. courts under the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Morrison v. National Australia Bank opinion.
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