The UK government declined a chance to get £364m out of Carillion before it failed, and British taxpayers are now on the hook for that money

Last December, the accounting giant EY presented a proposal to the failing mega-business Carillion to break it up and sell its profitable parts, keeping it from collapsing and sticking the British taxpayer with billions of pounds' worth of unfunded pension liabilities. (more…)

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