The man who audited Trump's social media company misspelled his own name in 14 different ways: FT
Source: Business Insider
Apr 25, 2024, 12:05 AM EDT
The accountant hired to audit former President Donald Trump's social media company seemed to have a lot of trouble spelling his name, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
Ben F Borgers, the founder and managing partner of the accounting firm BF Borgers, spelled his name in 14 different ways in regulatory filings, the Financial Times reported, citing data it had reviewed from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
Some variations, like Ben F Brogers and Ben F orgers, appeared to be minor spelling mistakes. But others, like Blake F Borgers and Ben F Vonesh, were entirely different names. Representatives for BF Borgers and Trump Media & Technology Group did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI sent outside regular business hours.
These spelling snafus aren't the first time Borgers' work has been scrutinized. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board said it identified multiple deficiencies in every audit it had received from Borgers' accounting firm in the past two years, Bloomberg reported on April 8.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-media-auditor-misspelt-name-14-different-ways-ft-2024-4
twodogsbarking
(9,822 posts)EYESORE 9001
(25,988 posts)Cherokee100
(268 posts)Seems about right, for a company that would work for/with anything, connected to Benedict donald.
lastlib
(23,291 posts)There, I fixed it for ya!
apnu
(8,758 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,197 posts)TwilightZone
(25,485 posts)Borgers' website only lists one person on the "Meet our team" page: Borgers. Looks like it might be a one-person operation.
Just a wild guess (or two), but I wonder if he used a faulty AI to write the filings or scanned in old docs to use in the filings and the OCR software did a lousy job of character recognition, and he didn't bother to fix it. Some of those screw-ups seem a bit unlikely if a real person was writing the filings.
Trueblue Texan
(2,443 posts)TwilightZone
(25,485 posts)One would think he would have been consistent with it if that was the case, though.
It's pretty strange, but as others noted, it's also in line with what one would expect from any firm who chooses to work for Trump at this point.
eppur_se_muova
(36,296 posts)Wasn't that a line from a movie somewhere ?
Ford_Prefect
(7,921 posts)cannot be held to the same standards as those which are correct?
Just thinking about deniability.
Traurigkeit
(250 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,968 posts)So, dip hires the help he plans to use to take the blame for his grift.
twodogsbarking
(9,822 posts)Who the fkkk misspells their own name. This guy.
Traurigkeit
(250 posts)Prairie Gates
(1,066 posts)Etc.