The man who audited Trump's social-media company misspelled his own name 14 different ways: FT
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Ben F Borgers used 14 variations of his name in regulatory filings, including Blake F Borgers and Ben F orgers.

The accountant hired to audit former President Donald Trump’s 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 14 different ways in regulatory filings for the Trump Media and Technology Group, 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.

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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.

In November, Borgers’ firm was also removed from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ peer-review program.

BF Borgers, the organization said, was “so seriously deficient in its performance that education and remedial, corrective actions are not adequate.”

  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    126·
    6 months ago

    The man who audited Trump’s social-media company misspelled his own name 14 different ways

    Ben F Borgers, the founder and managing partner of the accounting firm BF Borgers, spelled his name 14 different ways in regulatory filings

    Either the title or the body is wrong. If he misspelled his name in 14 different ways he would have spelled it 15 times in total.

    • lunarul@lemmy.worldEnglish
      123·
      6 months ago

      No it doesn’t. He could have his name show up 100 times in the documents, 30 of which are misspelled. The 30 misspelled occurrences would show 14 unique spelling variations.

      Edit: I see what you mean now. He spelled his name in 15 different ways if he misspelled it in 14 ways (unless he never spelled it right)

        • lunarul@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          6 months ago

          Yes, but 15 spelling variations doesn’t mean the name wad spelled 15 times in total (as the comment I replied to says), because each variation can be used multiple times.

          Ok, I now see the discrepancy in the article (“misspelled 14 different ways” and “spelled 14 different ways”). I was confused by the commenter’s phrasing (“spelled 15 times in total”)