Six years, seven months, and 13 days after Lehman Brothers Holdings filed for bankruptcy, its former chief executive, Richard Fuld Jr, is still insisting it did not go broke.

At the Greencore AGM in May 2005, a group of dissident and highly vocal shareholders lashed out at the then CEO David Dilger over the company’s sluggish growth performance.

Perhaps there is no more telling a tale of Seán FitzPatrick’s reversal of fortunes than the May 2005 Greencore AGM.

Hundreds of works from the art collection of failed US banking giant Lehman Brothers will go under the hammer at Freeman’s auction house in Philadelphia.

The chief executive of the giant investment bank whose collapse set off a panic which led to the US economic rescue package took home more than €222m since 2000, he told the US Congress.