I’m not talking about Turnbull. I’m talking about Peter Sutherland, who runs GS right now.
Well, I know nothing about Peter Sutherland so I will look him up, but I also don’t consider him relevant in this case, precisely because I think Turnbull’s connection to Goldman Sachs is pretty irrelevant.
In my view, he was ‘hired’ because at the time Goldman Sachs needed somebody who was familiar with how to run a large business in Australia, and could also successfully defend the company in the court like environment of a Royal Commission (Australia’s second largest insurance company had collapsed due to fraud, and Goldman Sachs had links to that company, and some people would have loved to see blame ascribed to a foreign company rather than internally). Turnbull was a successful lawyer with a proven track record in high pressure public court cases, who had also recently proven himself to be a very astute businessman. That’s why they got him. And he wasn’t there very long.