The man who audited Trump's social-media company misspelled his own name 14 different ways

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The accountant hired to audit former President Donald Trump's media company seemed to have a lot of trouble spelling his name, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

Ben F Borgers, the founder and managing partner of the accounting firm BF Borgers, spelled his name 14 different ways in regulatory filings for the Trump Media and Technology Group, the Financial Times reported, citing data it had reviewed from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

Some variations, like Ben F Brogers and Ben F orgers, appeared to be minor spelling mistakes. But others, like Blake F Borgers and Ben F Vonesh, were entirely different names.

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These spelling snafus aren't the first time Borgers' work has been scrutinized.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board said it identified multiple deficiencies in every audit it had received from Borgers' accounting firm in the past two years, Bloomberg reported on April 8.

In November, Borgers' firm was also removed from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' peer-review program.

BF Borgers, the organization said, was "so seriously deficient in its performance that education and remedial, corrective actions are not adequate."

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ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝 [OP]

Ben F orgers

Freudian slip or someone in the company sending a message?

misterundercoat

Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe

v_krishna

Don't drive like my brother!

Blahaj_Blast

Don't drive like *my* brother!

AnotherMadHatter

Representing the Tappet Brothers!

ace_garp

Can't be sued, if my name isn't on the documents.

Big Blain Tim

100_kg_90_de_belin

When U.S. Navy Commander Jeremiah Denton was forced to appear at a televised press conference, he repeatedly blinked the word "T-O-R-T-U-R-E" with Morse code

Kowowow

shrek standing behind you "Bend ogre"

refalo

Good observation but he had this problem way before Trump

ZeroCool

In November, Borgers’ firm was also removed from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ peer-review program.

BF Borgers, the organization said, was “so seriously deficient in its performance that education and remedial, corrective actions are not adequate.”

"*In our professional opinion, these people are too dumb to learn.*" They sound perfect for Trump.

Diplomjodler3

Only the best people.

modifier

In case there was any doubt, this is what scraping the bottom of the barrel looks like. Trump is running out of credulous buffoons with licenses and certifications.

CaccaDoodie

Ben F orgers

If that's not a blatant cry for help then idk what is. He's obviously trying to notify someone that he's being forced to forge documents. Either that or orangie-poo wrote them himself.

refalo

but this was an issue with them before Trump

randoot

Vonesh instead of Borgers is not a misspelling. He either botched a find and replace because he just copy pasted from someone else, or he used GPT and it hallucinated random shit.

Pretzilla

Or a drunk autocorrect on a phone swipe keyboard - wouldn't take too many monkeys to hit that result

Natanael

Or had very dumb assistants writing it, who didn't care to learn his actual name

ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝 [OP]

Or his assistants hate him.

IninewCrow

Lol ..... If I was hired by Trump ... I'd pass all the documents I had to fill out though AI like this guy did and collect my half a million dollar payment.

MelodiousFunk

If I was hired by Trump ... I'd collect my payment

(X) Doubt

CaccaDoodie

and collect my payment.

You'd be the first.

BruceTwarzen

So he's qualified to become president of the united states

Infynis

Or at least a representative in New York's third congressional district

morphballganon

Sounds like yet another strategy to appeal and hold up the courts.

TOR-anon1

Seems like he *forged* his own name.

voracitude

Is this where Jacques de Gauthier de Gatineau ended up?

The Pantser

Ben Fingering Boogers

TheJims

Acountty Mc Acountenson

Emerald

Mmmm borger king

MummifiedClient5000

Seems normal.

Illuminostro

"Tramp? Trash? Trunt? What's the problem?"

joenforcer

Didn't even read the story summary, huh?

Illuminostro

I apologize.

Fuck Trump.

joenforcer

Indeed.

Fuck Trump.

RedWeasel

As I was reading this I misread “Trump Media and Technology Group” as “ Trump Mafia and Technology Group”.

ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝 [OP]

You had it right first time.

Kazumara

The man who audited Trump's social-media company misspelled his own name 14 different ways

Ben F Borgers, the founder and managing partner of the accounting firm BF Borgers, spelled his name 14 different ways in regulatory filings

Either the title or the body is wrong. If he misspelled his name in 14 different ways he would have spelled it 15 times in total.

Everythingispenguins

Maybe he never spelled it correctly

Kazumara

You got me there :-)

lunarul , edited

No it doesn't. He could have his name show up 100 times in the documents, 30 of which are misspelled. The 30 misspelled occurrences would show 14 unique spelling variations.

Edit: I see what you mean now. He spelled his name in 15 different ways if he misspelled it in 14 ways (unless he never spelled it right)

Null User Object , edited

So, 14 misspelled variations + 1 correct spelling variation = 15 total spelling variations.

lunarul , edited

Ok, I now see the discrepancy in the article ("misspelled 14 different ways" and "spelled 14 different ways"). I was confused by the commenter's phrasing ("spelled 15 times in total")

YarHarSuperstar

But it doesn't say that.