Found a great new businessweek today in some random shopping with pav bhaji. It has a great story of how a private investigating firm was hired by a rival to infiltrate KPMG and get some audit results out before others saw it. The story was just like a spy thriller and what was amazing was the fact that it was real. I'm sure these things happen but to see it described in public was a first.
Starts with the "search" for a prime target who could be bought over in KPMG - they wanted a young, bored man or an older, spinster woman (stereotypes galore!). Anyway, they found a guy and then fooled the hell out of him by spinning a story on how they were British top secret operatives & they wanted him to help the british government! What bull !!! He bought all of it without a thought and kept feeding them information/documents for weeks! What's more, after all this has been found out and lawsuits are flying all over, he's quietly shifted country and is working in yet another blue chip company! I guess not being director of a company has it's advantages! What does he get at the end? A rolex watch courtesy the brits (or so he was told and bought!). Time seemed to have been on his side.
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