Reeves Was Nearly Fired For Fiddling Expenses....

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg75jr5284o

...So lets put her in charge of the country's finances! What could go wrong?

[Togo]

She was just the same thief when she got her hands on tax payer funds.

//In 2015, it emerged that she was among 19 MPs who had had their official credit cards suspended by the parliamentary expenses watchdog after failing to show their spending was valid.

Reeves owed more than £4,000 in spending at the time when her card was blocked. She subsequently cleared her debt.//

No one knows where she gat the money from to clear the debts. Pally Ali? 

[Ellipsis]

She left under a compromise agreement (these days called a settlement agreement). I have not worked in financial services, maybe it's a bit different there, but in my experience a settlement agreement is done when either an employer or an employee has done something wrong. If the employer has done something wrong, there may be compensation to the employee. If the employee has done something wrong, the deal is that they leave PDQ no more questions asked. In either case, confidentiality is normal to avoid embarrassment on both parties. This means that we shouldn't even know that a settlement agreement was in place, and Reeves can't even talk about it. 

The quote that it was a "standard-style agreement adopted by the company when a mutually agreed exit was made during the bank's restructure" is very vague. E.g. did everyone have a compromise agreement, or just the ones that had been fiddling there expenses in the middle of a  huge financial crisis.

[Togo]

//Reeves left the bank in May 2009, as did her boss. The other senior manager was on sick leave in May and never returned to work at the bank.//

Her "boss" was also included in the investigations and the "senior manager" obviously took early "health related retirement". How cosy. 

[douglas9401]

Not quite the startled librarian that she looks then.

[davebro3]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clynd9l09w3o

Does anyone believe her?

[newmodarmy]

No I don't believe her. But I suppose she had to deny any knowledge of her expenses being queried given that she had to sign a compromise agreement, and to say all her expenses were approved is meaningless given that her manager was also investigated and left in similar mysterious circumstances.

[Ellipsis]

Here are the facts:

* She said more than once, recorded in public, that she had worked at the Bank of England for a decade - which she did not do.

* She has made several "mistakes" on her LinkedIn about the timings of her various employments, including with the Bank of England, and blamed somebody else for those mistakes (ie she didn't check)

* Her expenses were for ridiculous, expensive personal items that no right employee would claim and no right employer would accept - even a freelancer would have been admonished by their accountant for trying to claim these expenses 

* She left under a compromise agreement, which normally means wrongdoing either by an employer or an employee

Sorry no, I don't believe her ...

[Togo]

A thief and a liar!

//Rachel Reeves bought a bottle of champagne for a junior banking colleague on expenses which they later claimed never to have received, documents seen by The Times show.

The allegation is contained in a whistleblower’s report into concerns about the chancellor’s expenses in 2009 when she worked as a customer relations manager at Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS).

It follows a series of revelations by the BBC about an investigation into Reeves and two other senior managers at HBOS who were said to have used expenses to “fund a lifestyle” of dinners, events, taxis and gifts.

Documents seen by The Times reveal that concerns were raised about Reeves’ use of expenses to buy a bottle of Moët and Chandon for another more junior colleague working in the department.

Reeves claimed for the £29.93 bottle that was bought alongside other personal grocery shopping at a branch of Tescos in Leeds where she was working at the time. Part of the report states that in her expense claim she itemised the champagne as “colleague entertaining and incentives”.

The same expense claim also shows Reeves billed the company £9.40 for sweets for her team, £4.92 for biscuits for an away day and £1.34 for a birthday card.

Documentation provided alongside the whistleblower’s report reveals that the purchase of the champagne was questioned in an email by a member of staff in the department, who went on to check whether it had ever been received by Reeves’ colleague.

The colleague denied ever having received the champagne as a reward, saying they had received thanks but “no Moët” for their work. The email was sent at the start of January 2009 — seven weeks after the champagne was purchased by Reeves.

A spokesperson for Reeves told The Times that she was unaware of the claims that had been made against her or any investigation into her expenses.//

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/reeves-put-champagne-gift-on-expenses-that-colleague-never-received-c97k0f273

[Togo]

Champage socialists! Someone elses champagne though. Same as it ever was. 

[jackthehat]

As I understand it, in addition to all the financial shenanigins, she also had time off to attend numerous 'medical' appointments,l which actually turned out to be times when she was carrying out work as a councillor - so much so that HBOS employed a PI to investigate her activities.

And when she discovered this, she jumped before she was pushed.