Leaked documents show businessman went on a spending spree and left a council effectively bankrupt.
This article points the finger almost exclusively at Liam Kavanagh and almost ignores Sean Clark, Thurrock’s Finance Director.
A bit of digging turned up this much longer article published a year ago and while Liam Kavanagh and his companies feature in it there’s also quite a bit more about Sean Clark’s role in all this.
Predictable outcome of letting local councils invest taxpayer money in whatever corrupt scheme greases their palms.
What’s the alternative? The tories decide literally everything from Whitehall?
The Audit Commission - a spending watchdog that stopped councils taking too many risks - was abolished in 2015.
Probably not abolishing the thing that was literally there to stop this from happening.
In fairness maybe this thing didn’t work, but surely some oversight would reduce ridiculous things like this from happening.
This is so circular I don’t even know where to begin.
This is icetown all over again.
Classic floridaman.
Essex Man, at least that’s where Thurrock council is, not sure where Liam Kavanagh is living now.
Classic Kavanaugh
Classic floridaman.
