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| Subject: Lehman Brothers' former heads criticised for lapse Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:15 pm | |
| A report into the collapse of Lehman Brothers criticises senior executives and auditor Ernst & Young for serious lapses that led to the firm's collapse.
The report says Lehman was insolvent for weeks before it went bankrupt, sparking a global financial meltdown.
It accuses management of "actionable balance sheet manipulation" and using accounting tricks to hide debts.
Ernst & Young said that its last audit of Lehman was "fairly presented" according to accounting rules.
The collapse of the 158-year-old investment bank in September 2008 was the world's largest bankruptcy.
Wall Street, the City of London, and the US and UK governments tried to organise a rescue, fearing - rightly - that Lehman's failure would set off a chain reaction around the globe.
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