由洛杉矶道奇队亿万富翁老板马克·沃尔特控制的这家保险公司，其削减对其旗下其他企业贷款的计划获得了部分批准。此前，这些交易受到了美国司法部的审查。
An insurer controlled by Mark Walter, the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, won partial approval on a plan to slash lending to his other businesses after those deals came under scrutiny from the Justice Department. TWG Global, Walter’s holding company, will buy $3.8 billion of affiliated assets from Delaware Life Insurance Co., according to a statement from the insurer on Thursday.
根据该公司周四发布的声明，沃尔特的控股公司TWG Global将从特拉华人寿保险公司（Delaware Life Insurance Co.）手中收购价值38亿美元的关联资产。作为交换，特拉华人寿保险公司在未来几周内也将获得等值的非关联资产。
In exchange, Delaware Life will receive an equal amount of unaffiliated assets over the next several weeks. That would amount to about half of the $6.5 billion of assets the insurer had previously said it hoped to swap before filing its third-quarter results next month.
这笔交易相当于该公司此前表示希望在下个月公布第三季度业绩之前进行资产置换的65亿美元资产总额的一半。这一举措的前提是必须获得特拉华州保险监管机构的批准；该机构因对沃尔特旗下保险公司的监管不力而受到批评。
The move was contingent on winning approval from Delaware’s insurance regulator, which has faced criticism for its oversight of Walter’s insurance firms. The asset swap is the first step in an attempt to whittle down the more than $20 billion of loans that two insurers controlled by Walter previously said should have been labeled as affiliated but weren’t.
此次资产置换只是沃尔特试图削减其控制的这两家保险公司所持有的超过200亿美元贷款的第一步。这些信息披露是在联邦法院传票的调查压力下进行的。
The disclosures followed federal subpoenas prying into the arrangements. Delaware Life has previously said it plans to reduce its share of affiliated investments from about 40% to less than 10% by next June.
特拉华人寿保险公司此前表示，计划将旗下关联投资的占比从约40%降至明年6月前的10%以下。
Walter, the chief executive officer of Guggenheim Partners, has been rapidly reshaping his empire as he contends with the probe, including an agreement to sell his controlling stake in the Los Angeles Lakers.
作为古根海姆合伙公司（Guggenheim Partners）的首席执行官，沃尔特在应对这些调查的同时，正在迅速重组自己的商业帝国，包括同意出售自己在洛杉矶湖人队（Los Angeles Lakers）中的控股权，以及同意出售自己在切尔西足球俱乐部（Chelsea Football Club）中的股份。
He has also agreed to offload his stake in the Chelsea Football Club.
TWG Global还探讨了其他一系列可能有助于筹集资金并减少其债务的交易方案；这些债务主要是欠那些为普通美国人提供财务支持的保险公司的。根据行业规定，保险公司可以向关联方提供贷款，但必须公开这些交易细节。监管机构会对此类交易进行严格审查，以确保公司所有者不会将自己的利益置于保单持有人的利益之上。
TWG Global has explored a range of other deals that could free up cash and reduce what he owes his insurers, which oversee financial backstops for everyday Americans. Industry rules allow insurers to lend money to related parties but require that the dealings be disclosed. Regulators then scrutinize those arrangements to ensure that a firm’s owners don’t put their interests ahead of policyholders.
沃尔特旗下保险公司向其其他业务投入的巨额资金，在纽约南区正在进行的一项调查中浮出水面。该调查引发了疑问：沃尔特为何能从其保险公司借款，而无需按规定向州监管机构披露这些安排。
The extraordinary amounts of investments from Walter’s insurers to his other businesses have come to light in the wake of an investigation being conducted by the Southern District of New York. The probe has sparked questions about how Walter was able to borrow from his insurers without having them disclose the arrangements to state regulators as required.
据知情人士透露，马克·沃尔特旗下保险公司的负责人丹·托里斯已向检方表示，他不知情这些公司已向这位体育大亨的其他业务贷出了超过200亿美元。
The head of Mark Walter’s insurance companies, Dan Towriss, has told prosecutors he was unaware that the firms had loaned more than $20 billion to the sports mogul’s other businesses, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
沃尔特的TWG Global控股公司在一份声明中表示：“无人受伤害，不存在欺诈，TWG Global无人有任何不当行为。”该公司补充称，正继续与司法部和证监会合作，“并期待解决此事。”
Walter’s TWG Global holding company said in a statement that “no one has been harmed, there is no fraud, and no one at TWG Global has committed any wrongdoing.”The firm added that it’s continuing to work with the Justice Department and SEC “and we look forward to resolving this matter.”