The Pyramid of Lies: Lex Greensill and the Billion-Dollar Scandal by Duncan Mavin

Author:Duncan Mavin [Mavin, Duncan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: True Crime, White Collar Crime, Business & Economics, Banks & Banking, Corporate & Business History, Entrepreneurship, Government & Business, Language Arts & Disciplines, Journalism, General, Social Science, Criminology, Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781529088908
Google: Mp1hEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2022-07-21T20:28:00+00:00

THE MEETING HAD been full of interesting details. And I had a better sense of who Lex really was. But there were so many more questions than answers. I wrote a series of scoops in The Wall Street Journal, with my colleague Julie Steinberg, and in other Dow Jones publications like Financial News and Barron’s. Other reporters were also writing stories about Lex. But for some reason, Greensill insiders told me, my name really needled him.

In November 2019, at a SoftBank event in California, Lex was guest of honour. Right before he was due on stage in front of dozens of other CEOs whose companies were backed by SoftBank, Lex found out that my colleague, Eric Savitz, a columnist at Barron’s, was in the room. Savitz is a great reporter. He is also a good guy. Lex stormed over and demanded Savitz leave. Savitz didn’t even know who Greensill was then. It was an angry confrontation that was only smoothed over after SoftBank media relations people intervened and persuaded Lex to continue.

It was a little later, in February 2020, when my bag was stolen from my car as I met my family for a meal near Oxford Street. A few months after that, Greensill insiders told me that Lex and Doran did have a private investigator on a kind of permanent retainer. Lex had also talked openly about having Daniel Sheard – the whistle-blower – followed, to see whether he was talking to any reporters. I couldn’t be sure about the break-in. Maybe the whole thing was a sign of my paranoia as I dealt with this complex, confusing company, where getting to the truth seemed so incredibly difficult.

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