Some 28 areas are now part of the city deal scheme, accounting for 71% of the English population and 68% of the jobs.

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Politicians, the press and traders betting on a sinking share price all seized on Mr Kozlowski's seemingly monstrous abuses of corporate expenses and Tyco's executive-loan scheme as proof of a wider accounting fraud at the firm.

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Dreier's world started collapsing in October, his lawyer said, when an accounting firm employee told him he would go to the police after finding out Dreier allegedly falsified accounting materials using the firm's name as part of his scheme.

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Dreier's world started collapsing in October, his lawyer said at the bail hearing earlier this month, when an accounting firm employee told him he would go to the police after finding out Dreier allegedly falsified accounting materials using the firm's name as part of his scheme.

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