A story in Financial Week (owned by Crain’s) over the weekend indicates that recently sued former Deloitte vice chairman Thomas Flanagan was an even bigger social player than we’d seen before. Not only was he on the board of the Boys & Girls Clubs, but he was treasurer of the Lyric Opera until last Monday, [...]
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And now the Chicago Tribune weighs in with its take on the Deloitte trading scandal, which (unless you are as obsessed with Deloite as I am at this point) isn’t even worth reading. Sadly, Ameet Sachdev, who is (to me) the best legal reporter in Chicago — if that’s saying anything — offers only an [...]
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Here’s an excellent post about the Deloitte/Flanagan case by Francine McKenna, a consultant (ex-KPMG/PwC) who writes audit industury blog re:TheAuditors. (McKenna was also the first person outside Deloitte to notify anyone of the case, twittering about it last week.) It’s great to get the perspective of someone who, unlike me, actually knows this industry. The [...]
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I’m getting a lot of visitors to this blog because of the Deloitte/Flanagan post. I know many of you work at Deloitte & Touche or its clients or its competitors and know the real story. And I know those at Deloitte got a voicemail from corporate saying do not talk to the media. But it’s [...]
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Pretty much everything I write is on a 3-month or more lead time, so I never get scoops, or even try to. But I just couldn’t resist this one. If it weren’t for the election, Crain’s and the Trib would’ve been all over this story last week… [Repost from Huffington Post/Chicago] Here’s an item from [...]
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