{"id":751070,"date":"2026-06-21T15:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/751070\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T15:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:30:17","slug":"kpmg-scandal-legal-privilege-used-by-law-firms-to-shield-corporate-investigations-from-public-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/751070\/","title":{"rendered":"KPMG scandal: legal privilege used by law firms to shield corporate investigations from public scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The investigations that law firms conduct for their corporate clients normally take place well behind closed doors. But on Sunday, we got a rare insight into how these probes work \u2013 with a new batch of revelations from the whistleblower at the heart of KPMG\u2019s audit leaks scandal.<\/p>\n<p>In a submission to parliament, the former KPMG executive explained how KPMG limited the scope of the reviews conducted by two top-tier law firms, Allens and Ashurst.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The investigations that law firms conduct for their corporate clients normally take place well behind closed doors. But&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-751070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}