Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of warnings about Wirecard

Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by DiogenesKynikos on Friday July 17, 2020 @10:54AM (#23871177)

Guttenberg tried to hold onto his position. He at first rejected the accusations, even though they had already been extremely well documented:

> Ich bin gerne bereit zu prüfen, ob bei über 1200 Fußnoten und 475 Seiten vereinzelt Fußnoten nicht oder nicht korrekt gesetzt sein sollten und würde dies bei einer Neuauflage berücksichtigen

> I am perfectly willing to check whether in any of the over 1200 footnotes and 475 pages individual footnotes were not - or not correctly - inserted, and to correct this in a new edition.

Guttenberg kept to this position for a week, while Angela Merkel and most of the government supported him.

In the end, though, the extensive plagiarism (93% of the pages have at least one known instance of plagiarism) in his dissertation was so well documented that it was impossible to deny, and his statements about possibly having made a few mistakes here and there also looked more and more like outright lies. Nobody plagiarizes to that extent by mistake.

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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by C1sc0cat on Friday July 17, 2020 @01:20PM (#23872961)

" or a contract to friend's friend's construction company" Is absolutely corruption.

Years ago I did a high level IR/HR course at BT where this sort of low level corruption was one of the most common types of serious misconduct.

Of course getting investigated by BT Security is not a happy fun experience.

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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by zepearl on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:45PM (#23875318)

Yeah, Guttenberg and Von der Leyen are definitely on my "bad people"-list.

Guttenberg was even the main candidate to direct some sort of "Internet security/ethics" department (don't remember anymore exactly what it was)? What kind of joke is that?

Von der Leyen was involved in the story about spending a lot of $ for external contracting companies & other stuff, then she got "promoted" to the EU-level => another joke, for me.

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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by dpoochieni on Friday July 17, 2020 @08:32PM (#23877763)

Damn I knew EU was a corrupt institution but didn't know they were so brazen to openly embrace such an individual as Mrs Leyen

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