朱恩·金曾铲除黑帮头目、追查一名国会议员，并调查导致纽约州总督垮台的性骚扰指控。他最新的任务将决定一家全球经济所依赖的、价值4万亿美元公司的命运。
Joon Kim has taken down mobsters, pursued a congressman, and investigated sexual harassment claims that toppled a New York governor. His latest assignment will decide the fate of a $4 trillion dollar company the global economy depends on.
这位前纽约南区联邦检察署代理检察长被指派调查英伟达首席执行官黄仁勋是否曾是中方间谍活动的目标，此前黄仁勋周日爆料承认，他与一名据称是中国间谍的女性有婚外情。
The former acting US Attorney for the Southern District of New York was tapped to investigate whether Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was the target of a Chinese espionage campaign, following Huang’s bombshell admission Sunday that the chief executive had an extramarital affair with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy.
金今年55岁，上个月加入沃克特尔李普顿律师事务所，将领导一项由独立董事委员会监督的内部调查，调查英伟达的黄仁勋是否泄露了商业秘密，或者更紧迫的是，损害了美国的国家安全利益。该公司表示，对其首席执行官充满信心，并称“没有理由相信国家安全或英伟达的商业秘密遭到泄露”。沃克特尔李普顿的一位发言人拒绝代表该事务所和金本人发表评论。
Kim, a 55-year-old prosecutor who joined Wachtell Lipton last month, will lead an internal probe overseen by a committee of independent directors, into whether Nvidia’s Huang compromised trade secrets or more pressingly, the US’ national security interests. The company has said it has confidence in its CEO and has “no reason to believe that either national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised.”A spokesperson for Wachtell declined to comment on the firm’s and Kim’s behalf.
自黄仁勋承认以来，英伟达股价已下跌10%，使公司市值蒸发5000亿美元，并引发对一家支撑着AI融资扩张的公司未来的担忧，这一扩张已牵涉全球大部分金融体系。此事发生在一个紧张的国家安全背景下，美国官员数月来一直警告外国影响力行动和企业间谍活动。
Shares in Nvidia have dropped 10% since Huang’s admission, knocking $500 billion off the company’s market value and stoking worries about the future of a company that underpins an AI financing buildout that has ensnared most of the global financial system. It comes against a fraught national security backdrop in which US officials have been warning for months of foreign influence campaigns and corporate espionage.
黄仁勋是美国总统特朗普的亲密密友，他推动英伟达在AI繁荣中投资数百家公司，而英伟达正是这场繁荣的供应商。该公司还在华尔街上下签署了数十亿美元的融资交易。
Huang, a close confidant of US President Donald Trump, has pushed Nvidia to take stakes in hundreds of companies across the AI boom it supplies. The company has also entered into billions of dollars worth of financing deals up and down Wall Street.
即使是金的雇主瓦赫特尔、利普顿律师事务所也难以幸免：知情人士透露，OpenAI是该事务所最知名的客户之一，该事务所的并购顾问正在为该公司即将进行的首次公开募股工作。英伟达是OpenAI的主要投资者，也是为支撑OpenAI模型运行的数据中心（英伟达也为这些数据中心提供融资）提供芯片的主要供应商。
Even Kim’s own employer, Wachtell, Lipton, is not immune: OpenAI is one of Wachtell’s highest-profile clients, and the law firm’s M&A advisors are working on the company’s pending IPO, according to people familiar with the matter. Nvidia is a major OpenAI investor and the primary supplier of the chips that underpin the data centers (which Nvidia also finances) that power OpenAI’s models.
企业调查性质各异，从表面功夫到实质性起诉不等，而英伟达有4万亿美元的理由要将损失降到最低。目前尚不清楚英伟达董事会会允许金走多远，但董事会已经引发了企业治理方面的担忧：这个任期异常长的董事会缺乏通常在英伟达这样规模的公司中才有的经验和声望，并让黄仁勋在没有明确继任者且直接下属超过50人的情况下管理公司。
Corporate probes can range from window dressing to essentially prosecutorial in nature, and Nvidia has $4 trillion reasons to limit its damage. It’s unclear how far Nvidia’s board will let Kim roam, but the board has already drummed up corporate governance concerns: The unusually long-tenured board lacks the experience and stature typically found at companies as large as Nvidia’s and has let Huang run the company with no clear successor and more than 50 direct reports.
二十多年前，金开始在纽约南区地方检察官办公室工作，先是在有组织犯罪部门任职，随后于2006年离开加入克利戈特利伯律师事务所。金是一名韩国外交官的儿子，曾在包括约旦和英国在内的世界各地生活。
Kim began his career at New York’s Southern District more than two decades ago, working in the organized crime unit before leaving for Cleary Gottlieb in 2006. The son of a South Korean diplomat, Kim traveled around the world, including in Jordan and the UK.
在首次担任联邦检察官期间，金在联邦敲诈勒索审判中对阵黑帮头目约翰“小约翰”·戈蒂，指控其绑架未来纽约市长候选人柯蒂斯·斯利瓦。“他整个成年生活都认为自己与众不同，理应得到一切，却对任何事不负责任，”当时金说道。
In his first stint as a federal prosecutor, Kim took on mob boss John “Junior” Gotti in a federal racketeering trial, trying him for the kidnapping of future New York mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa. “His entire adult life, John Jr. has thought himself special, entitled to everything, accountable for nothing,” Kim said at the time.
他的前同事形容金顽强不懈，并引用他2013年在纽约南区地方检察官办公室的经历作为例证，当时检察长普里特·巴拉拉领导该办公室，金成功起诉了失势的前众议员安东尼·韦纳，并在特朗普解雇巴拉拉后短暂代理了纽约南区地方检察官的职务。
His former colleagues describe Kim as dogged, citing his time at the Southern District in 2013, under Attorney Preet Bharara, where Kim pursued a successful case against disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner and briefly ran the Southern District after Trump fired Bharara.
金于2018年回到克莱里，主导了多起针对大型企业高管不当行为指控的内部调查，包括日产汽车对前首席执行官卡洛斯·戈恩的调查。但他最具标志性的案件之一，是纽约州总检察长莱蒂希娅·詹姆斯对时任州长安德鲁·库莫性骚扰指控的调查，该调查导致库莫于2021年辞职。库莫办公室“充斥着欺凌、恐惧和恐吓”，金在宣布调查结果时这样说。
Kim returned to Cleary in 2018, where he led a number of internal investigations into allegations of executive wrongdoing at large corporations, including Nissan Motors’ probe into former CEO Carlos Ghosn. But among his most defining cases was New York Attorney General Letitia James’ investigation into sexual harassment allegations against then-Governor Andrew Cuomo, which led to his 2021 resignation. Cuomo’s office was “rife with bullying, fear and intimidation,” Kim said when announcing his findings.
在周日之前，黄仁勋和公司发言人曾公开否认，称Nvidia首席执行官与爱丽丝·黄没有婚外情。周日，公司突然改变立场，黄仁勋给员工写信，承认了这段婚外情，并宣布计划启动一项独立调查。
Before Sunday, Huang and spokespeople for the company had publicly denied that the Nvidia CEO had an affair with Alice Huang. The company abruptly changed tack on Sunday, when Huang wrote a letter to employees admitting to the affair and announcing a plan to initiate an independent probe.
公司已组建一个独立委员会来监督调查，周日正倾向于聘请库利前首席执行官斯蒂芬·尼尔，据《金融时报》报道，Semafor可以证实。部分Nvidia董事也建议聘请库利来主导这项独立调查，其他知情人士表示。库利是Nvidia长期的外部法律顾问，如果聘请其主导调查，公司将面临调查不独立的批评，尤其是因为库利最以其科技和知识产权业务闻名，且不被精英律师视为拥有一流白领犯罪调查业务。
The company had assembled an independent committee to oversee the investigation and was on Sunday leaning toward tapping former Cooley CEO Stephen Neal, the Financial Times reported and Semafor can confirm. Some Nvidia directors also suggested tapping Cooley to run the independent probe, other people familiar with the matter said. Cooley is Nvidia’s longtime outside counsel and would have exposed the company to criticism that the probe wasn’t independent, especially since Cooley is best known for its tech and IP practices, and isn’t considered by white-shoe lawyers to have a top-tier white-collar investigations practice.
Nvidia拒绝就独立委员会的性质，或董事是否考虑聘请库利发表评论。
Nvidia declined to comment on either the nature of the independent committee or on whether directors considered tapping Cooley.