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KPMG’s ousted partners

bring in the big guns

An army of legal and strategic communications

advisors are on board to help the former partners

through the reputational quagmire awaiting them.

Hannah WoottonColumnist

It’s all hands on deck at KPMG, as the firm prepares for its date with the parliamentary inquiry investigating its auditor misconduct scandal on Friday. There’s even a war room set up in its Melbourne office, and another waiting in Canberra once the executives decamp there ahead of the hearing.

But it’s not just the firm’s current executives that are getting a helping hand from its army of advisors. It turns out KPMG has been rather generous with the support it is offering the partners who have been pushed out the door by the scandal as well.

Media Matters: “ABC, CBS, and NBC aired a combined 194 segments about the three major heat events” that hit the US this summer and not a single one of them mentioned climate change. Not one!

Where are the Robocalls? I don’t think I’ve gotten a robocall in several months. That’s GREAT news. Are yours down as well? It may be that the telecoms really are working with law enforcement to shut these down. Remember that calls from outside the US must have a US-based service to transfer these voice over internet calls into the phone system. And they must have a way to display a Caller ID number, and usually must have a phone number for recipients to call back. Obviously this system should be something we can track. So whoever is working on this, thank you and great work! And maybe there could be more work done on spam text messages.