Re:Wirecard files for insolvency after financial hole laid bare
by joosters on Thursday June 25, 2020 @07:08AM
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By 'barely even a footnote', you must mean front page news on most newspapers today: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-53173316
Re:Wirecard files for insolvency after financial hole laid bare
by TheOtherHobbes on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:37AM
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In a historical context, that's still a footnote.
Especially compared to - say - the suppressed Russia report, or the non-existent disclosure about the true sources of funding for Brexit, or the fact that the government wasted £12m on an app that does nothing, or the sum total of various other Brexit- and Covid-related contracts to various government cronies, donors, and associates, and which appear to have supplied nothing of value to taxpayers.
€1.9bn is pocket money compared to Wall St's and the City's more creative frauds.
The UK is currently dealing with a government minister who was involved in questionable planning oversight for a single development scheme worth £1bn - and that's barely even a footnote in the news here.