Anthony McDonald
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I mean, Deb O'Neill really giving it to these guys.
And I think, you know, these senators have been through a few of these inquiries now and they've,
Really just not happy with some of this stuff and some of the issues that have come back again from the PwC one a couple of years ago at KPMG and just throwing them to KPMG's Andrew Yates and say, look, last time we spoke to you, there was this PwC going on in the background.
You told us that your firm was better for these reasons.
Meanwhile, you've been dealing with your own whistleblower complaint.
in the background.
Like, why don't you say anything at the time?
And why put your firm up on this sort of pedestal when you know that there's these own inherent trust issues inside there?
So, I mean, Yates really copped it.
I thought, you know, at least he did sit there and cop it and didn't storm out or something because it was really one-way traffic directed at him.
I thought, James, what struck me on the Lendlease one though, did you hear when they said that Lendlease had been using KPMG for 68 years?
Yeah.
Like, that's like,
So not only were they a big KPMG client, but they've been using them for 68 years.
You think if there's one...
you know, auditor you think you trust, it's the one that's been looking after you for 68 years.
Oh, 100%.
Like the irony of KPMG trying to keep documents to protect its own confidentiality when the whole reason everyone's sitting there is because some other company's confidentiality was breached is just gold.
And, you know, that just reverberated, I think, around the day.
James, were there any other bombshells that sort of caught your ear?