Christine Lagarde has been found guilty of negligence but apparently won't face any punishment.

"Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, was found guilty on Monday of criminal charges linked to the misuse of public funds during her time as France’s finance minister, a verdict that could force her out of her post.

Ms. Lagarde, who began her second five-year term at the I.M.F. in February, will not face any jail time, the judge said. The scandal has overshadowed her work at the fund, to which she was appointed in 2011, after Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned as managing director when he was accused of having sexually assaulted a maid in a New York City hotel."

Seems you have to be a bit bent to get this job.

Very disappointing. Despite being found guilty she gets to keep her job too..

Rotten to the core

What was she found guilty of? A fraudulent €403 million payout to businessman Bernard Tapie in 2008, when she was France’s finance minister.

Indeed, a very corrupt woman.

A gulity verdict of financial negligence is not exactly at the top of the credentials required for the head of the IMF but it appears she isn't offering to stand down and will probably keep her job. As for not even a fine as punishment, you're having a laugh comes to mind.

I'm sure we can all think of jobs done by mere mortals where negligence means the sack or worse.

However, the financial world seems to attract the dishonest, the corrupt and the greedy
and not fogetting that most important attribute the ability to have no shame or moral code to get in the way.

Shameless. She should at least have the decency to resign.

She must have the same connections as a certain Keith Vaz

As mentioned several times above, totally shameless

This was the woman who was advising us about Brexit?

The remoaners were citing her for her forecasts.

Another fish faced old haddock makes money dissapear without consequences for anyone, not even the court that lets it all pass without smelling salts.

What's new?

Thick as thieves.

Same group as Vaz and a good many more.......The Untouchables.

But to the Remanants, she is an expert.

No doubt the political elite wiil rally round to say how much confidence they have in this
criminal member of their "club".

What a shame political assassination isn't fashionable these days.

Give it time.

If its about money the guilty never get punished and the rest of us pick up the tab.
There's a banker, a Mail reader and a refugee sitting round a cake. Its been cut into ten portions.
The banker takes nine bits and says to the Mail reader "Watch out, that refugee is after your bit of cake."
Thats how morality works these days.

Sweet Jesus, give it a rest, eh.
Just this once.

Appalling.

More fuel for the sceptics' fire.

Indefensible.

Did it hurt?

Lifestyles of the rich and untouchables.. what can you do?

It was already fuel for us simpletons in the know.

I followed her "close to tears" explanation of how this debacle had created five years of torment for her and her family.
It made me think she would be ideal for one of those BBC ancestry "Who Do You Think You Are? programmes as I'm sure FIFA's Sepp Blatter and 'Sir' Philip Green must be long lost cousins.

She was really playing the victim. She knows the system so well. Kinda admire her in a frightening sort of way.

And Sarkozy and Chirac.

Psychopaths you mean? (not just the financial world, where there is power there are psychos).

Well reminded:

Brexit would prompt stock market and house price crash, says IMF

https://www.theguardian.com/business...erendum-brexit