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KPMG spent weeks citing investigations by Ashurst and Allens to prop up its nothing-to-see-here line on the audit leaks. Then, when the Senate inquiry came calling, it served its own lawyers up as the explanation.

But as Capital Brief’s Michael Pelly writes, the firms weren’t wearing it. Across hours of questioning after KPMG threw them under the bus, they walked out without a scratch. As lawyers tend to do.

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