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BBC using fraud & price fixing suspects KPMG to deliver their 'business news'

Tony Gosling | 11.05.2013 12:20 | Analysis | Other Press | Public sector cuts

Green Councillor Daniella Radici, Martin Summers and Tony Gosling discuss Financial services firm KPMG who have been given a slot on BBC Radio Bristol 'volunteering' a 7:30am 'business news' for the BBC Breakfast show but failing to reference a pro-Coalition government report talking up the economy promising 200,000 jobs about to come to Britain, but who wrote this report and why have the BBC given up their editorial independence?

Audio KPMG doing 'journalism' on Radio Bristol - mp3 5.8M


Excerpt from Friday Drivetime - BCfm's weekly politics show presented by Tony Gosling
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KPMG have a terrible track record and are embroiled in several scandals including criminal insider dealing in the US, falsifying the accounts of HBOS, undervaluing HBOS junk assets by 7000% just before the 2008 crash and are being investigated by the UK Competition Commission for price fixing with the other 'big four' financial services firms.

references:
 http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/04/11/herbalife-kpmg-london-shaw/2074607/
 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/455643/20130410/kpmg-pric-hbos-skecher-herbalife.htm
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/9984412/Scandal-hit-KPMG-could-face-probe-over-HBOS-audit.html

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  1. there was nothing I could do guv — Tim Pemberton - manager of BBC Radio Bristol
  2. and now....... HS2 — Bryan Lawrence