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Christiaan Hetzner

Archegos founder Bill Hwang tells court he can't pay $10 billion compensation to victims because he's only a millionaire

Bill Hwang, founder of Archegos Capital Management, arrives at federal court in New York

Disgraced multimillionaire and convicted white collar criminal Bill Hwang is too broke to ever pay the nearly $10 billion in restitution requested by prosecutors to make some of Wall Street’s biggest banks whole again.

It’s a stunning fall for the once high-flying graduate of hedge fund pioneer Julian Robertson's Tiger Management. Hwang, now 60, went on to gamble on behalf of his own family office Archegos and amassed a fortune Bloomberg estimated was once worth $30 billion. 

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