{"id":26411,"date":"2011-12-09T09:45:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T14:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=26411"},"modified":"2011-12-09T09:45:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T14:45:40","slug":"goldman-sachs-whistleblower-threatened-with-the-sack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2011\/goldman-sachs-whistleblower-threatened-with-the-sack.html","title":{"rendered":"Goldman Sachs whistleblower threatened with the sack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; A solicitor at HM Revenue &amp; Customs who turned whistleblower to disclose that senior managers had quietly let off\u00a0Goldman Sachs\u00a0from paying millions of pounds in tax penalties is facing disciplinary procedures and possible prosecution for speaking out.<\/p>\n<p>Osita Mba has worked within the Revenue for at least four years and claimed to have personal knowledge of the deal that allowed the bank to write off a \u00a310m bill.\u00a0He told the National Audit Office and two parliamentary committees the bank&#8217;s settlement had been agreed with a handshake by Dave Hartnett, the permanent secretary for tax at HMRC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2011\/dec\/08\/goldman-sachs-whistleblower-threatened-sack\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; A solicitor at HM Revenue &amp; Customs who turned whistleblower to disclose that senior managers had quietly let off\u00a0Goldman Sachs\u00a0from paying millions of pounds in tax penalties is facing disciplinary procedures and possible prosecution for speaking out. Osita [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26413,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26411\/revisions\/26413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}