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Former Posterscope US top managers plead guilty to $19.7m fraud as out of home giant returns to China

Former Posterscope US top managers plead guilty to $19.7m fraud as out of home giant returns to China

By Stephen Foster on June 13, 2012

It’s one of life’s ironies that former Posterscope US president Todd Hansen has pleaded guilty to a $19.7m fraud involving bumping up profits so he could secure big bonuses at the same time as the Aegis-owned out of home company has announced it is to return to China where it had been operating officially through [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged aegis, aegis germany, Aleksander Ruzicka, fraud, James Buckley, kinetic, posterscope, posterscope us, rumasa, Todd Hansen, WPP

Goldman Sachs in the dock – now bankers really might receive their come-uppance

By Stephen Foster on April 16, 2010

There are bankers and bankers, writes City & Wall Street, but somehow or other Goldman Sachs always seems to escape the worst and cash in mightily on the best in that particular industry. For it was Goldman that appeared to evade the worst of the sub-prime housing market disaster in the US, despite playing a [...]

Posted in Finance, Politics | Tagged Finance, fraud, Goldman Sachs, Paulson & Co, Robert Peston

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