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’BDO, meet Jarndyce & Jarndyce
All that the tragedy of Farepak needs is a debtors’ prison and a rotting wedding dress, and we’d have a real Dickens mash-up.
After five years of wrangling the 120,000-odd customers of the failed Christmas hamper company,
Accounting firms drawn into Madoff scandal
Top accounting firms were hoodwinked by Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50bn fraud as well as several top banks and some of the world’s biggest hedge fund investors, according to lists of service providers to Madoff-linked funds.
Crock valuer appointed
Here he is, Andrew Caldwell of BDO Stoy Hayward – the man who has taken what is possibly the worst job in Britain.
Following an exhaustive six month search, Mr Caldwell has been named as the independent valuer of Northern Rock with a brief to decide how much compensation should be paid to shareholders who lost out when the mortgage bank was nationalised.