Here’s Your Chance to Own a Yellow Corvette Thanks to the IRS
One taxpayer's loss is your gain! The IRS is offering up for auction a 2007 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 and a 2005 Chevrolet SSR Pickup, both painted in clean drug test piss yellow. They've also got a 2006 Mercedes Benz CLS 55 AMG, a 27 foot boat, and a snazzy 2007 Chevrolet Silverado with nearly 200,000 […]
Get Yourself a Piece of Koss Embezzlement History
Remember the good ol' Koss fraud? It's been quite some time since we were on the Milwaukee beat but this morning we received an email informing us that a little auction is being held by Gaston & Sheehan that has several lots (97 to be exact) under "US Marshal Service Assets." Our tipster informed us […]
Here’s Some Stuff You Didn’t Buy at PwC’s Lehman Brothers Auction in London
Gosh, team. It’s been over two years since Lehman bit the big one and now all that’s left is bits and pieces (Barclays, pink sheets, Dick Fuld’s stonewalling testimony) and charges from the SEC that could eventually see the light of day (unless the sun burns out first). Oh! And Ernst & Young. They’re in the mix too, although some people we talk to have their doubts about any repercussions.
Anyhoo, there was a big auction at Christie’s in London today directed by the newly-branded PwC. After everyone got done ribbing the P. Dubs partner in attendance about the Atari design, the bidding started. Here’s a little taste of what’s been sold so far, courtesy of the Times:
• Corporate Sign from Canary Wharf building – £42,050. Bidding started at £5,000
• Gary Hume’s Madonna – £120,000 (most expensive item so far)
• A collection of five maps from circa 1720 – £1,875
• An 1870 collection of the works of one Bill Shakespeare
• Two etchings by Lucian Freud
• Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
• A 43.5-inch painted pine model of a 62-gun ship
Overall, the auction has topped £600,000, according to Accountancy Age but is still rising. You can probably still get a bid in if you hurry.