First KPMG Now Deloitte…
KPMG was the first of the big 4 to take a hit now it’s Deloitte’s turn.
Reuters - The liquidators of two Bear Stearns Cos mortgage hedge funds that collapsed last year, filed suit on Monday against the company and its auditor, Deloitte & Touche, seeking to recover over $1 billion in losses.The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, accuses Bear, the managers of the hedge fund, and Deloitte, of not living up to assurances that the funds were relatively safe and conservative investment vehicles.The liquidators added that the funds were never designed to withstand even a “slight downtick” in the housing market.Bear Stearns and its hedge fund managers “conceived, marketed and managed hedge funds that they knew would be viable so long as - but only so long as - the U.S. housing market continued to rise,” the suit said.The suit charges that the company, the fund managers, […]
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