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

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Source: Business Insider

Apr 25, 2024, 12:05 AM EDT


The accountant hired to audit former President Donald Trump's social 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 in 14 different ways in regulatory filings, 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. Representatives for BF Borgers and Trump Media & Technology Group did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI sent outside regular business hours.

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.

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-media-auditor-misspelt-name-14-different-ways-ft-2024-4

[twodogsbarking]

1. Ben Forger. There.

[EYESORE 9001]

2. More like Ben Dover

[Cherokee100]

3. Seems

Seems about right, for a company that would work for/with anything, connected to Benedict donald.

[lastlib]

9. "Been-A-Dick donald"

There, I fixed it for ya!

[apnu]

4. Trump only hires the best people.

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. Maybe it's "George Santos" in one of his clever incarnations. nt

[TwilightZone]

6. Maybe he used AI to write the filings.

Borgers' website only lists one person on the "Meet our team" page: Borgers. Looks like it might be a one-person operation.

Just a wild guess (or two), but I wonder if he used a faulty AI to write the filings or scanned in old docs to use in the filings and the OCR software did a lousy job of character recognition, and he didn't bother to fix it. Some of those screw-ups seem a bit unlikely if a real person was writing the filings.

[Trueblue Texan]

7. Unless it's a fake name and he just can't remember how he spelled it last time. nt

[TwilightZone]

8. I had a similar thought

One would think he would have been consistent with it if that was the case, though.

It's pretty strange, but as others noted, it's also in line with what one would expect from any firm who chooses to work for Trump at this point.

[eppur_se_muova]

10. "I can't remember -- which lie did I tell you?"

Wasn't that a line from a movie somewhere ?

[Ford_Prefect]

11. I wonder if that isn't a dodge like when certain documents contain the wrong name they are un-useable and thus

cannot be held to the same standards as those which are correct?

Just thinking about deniability.

[Traurigkeit]

15. Good Catch. "That's not my name.."

[Kid Berwyn]

12. Hard to sue the best.

So, dip hires the help he plans to use to take the blame for his grift.

[twodogsbarking]

13. I don't think I have misspelled my name in seventy-two years, not even once.

Who the fkkk misspells their own name. This guy.

[Traurigkeit]

14. One can not believe the lowest, worthless person or org. that Trump Org would not pay to do a job to save a cent.

[Prairie Gates]

16. John Barron, John Baron, Jon Barron, John Brannon, Jonathan Barrow, John Bron, John Vonesh

Etc.

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17. Jon Bon Jovi?