The Producer of “The Wolf of Wall Street” is in talks with the U.S. Justice Department to settle a lawsuit alleging the movie was funded by money siphoned from a Malaysian state investment fund, 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).

Lawyers for Red Granite Pictures Inc., which was co-founded by Riza Aziz, a stepson of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, and the U.S. on Tuesday asked a federal judge in Los Angeles to extend a deadline in the lawsuit so that they can “focus on their ongoing negotiations.”

The fund has denied wrongdoing.

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