A Colossal Failure of Common Sense : The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers by The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York unsealed the report of Anton R. Valukas, the Examiner in the Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Chapter 11 proceedings and allowed the report to be released to the public in March 2010.
The law firm Jenner & Block LLP provided links to the nine-volume Examiner's report online at http://lehmanreport.jenner.com
Volume 3 covers Repo 105.
Ernst & Young's website may be searched for publicly disclosed information relating to Lehman Brothers.
The failure of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc.. has resulted in many articles in newspapers and auditing, accounting, legal, real estate and financial publications. The role of its audiors, Ernst & Young, has also resulted in much coverage.
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