Paid or unpaid?

I suffer from insomnia so I understand what he suffered.

Go and work at tankers surgery mitz..... they need night staff :))

lol.

In retreat now along with other bank shares.

lloys as now got a ceo who is the same model has goodwin staff to scared to speak out staff should be told by the ceo to speak out if they think things are wrong

A good day up 4%.

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It should get back to 40p in the next couple of months, IMO

Happy Christmas to you all

Eddie

..Former Lloyds bosses to be sued over HBOS takeover

By James Quinn | Telegraph – 13 minutes ago
Sir Victor Blank and Eric Daniels, the former chairman and chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group (LSE: LLOY.L - news) , are to be sued in the US courts by American shareholders unhappy at the bank’s takeover of HBOS at the height of the credit crisis.

Claim forms have been lodged with the Southern District of New York (Frankfurt: A0DKRK - news) against the two former executives, along with the bank itself, by US-based shareholders.

The forms, copies of which have been seen by The Sunday Telegraph , accuse the bank’s board of making misleading statements about the quality of the transaction, even though HBOS was technically insolvent at the point of takeover.

The transaction, which was engineered just days after Lehman Brothers fell into administration, led to a collapse in Lloyds’ shares, falling from 279.75p on the day news of the deal leaked, to 108p a year later.

It also triggered the departures of Sir Victor Blank along with Lord Stevenson and Andy Hornby, HBOS’s chairman and chief executive respectively.

In the claim, Mr Daniels, who stood down as chief executive in February 2011, is noted as describing the deal as “fantastic” in September 2008, and speaking of the merged bank’s “robust capital position”.

But the claim notes that “unbeknownst to the public... beginning on October 1 2008, HBOS was insolvent”, receiving emergency liquidity assistance from the Bank of England, which peaked at £25.4bn on November (Stuttgart: A0Z24E - news) 13.

It goes on to quote Sir Mervyn King’s later comments that “without that assistance, [HBOS] would not have survived”.

The two men and the bank are accused of violating sections of the US Exchange Act (Taiwan OTC: 3492.TWO - news) , alleging that the “wrongful conduct” which ensued led to “false and/or misleading statements” being issued, to the detriment of shareholders.

The class action is being brought by three sets of solicitors on behalf of Albert Ross of Louisiana who owned 1,400 Lloyds American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) and is being used to lead the class.

Lloyds ADRs trade on the New York Stock Exchange, which is the reason the case has been filed in New York.

The claim form states that “the exact number of class members” is unknown, however, due to the highly liquid nature of Lloyds ADRs at the time of the takeover.

Sir Victor has always defended the deal. He told The Sunday Telegraph in June that enough due diligence was done on the transaction, there were no other options to prevent a banking collapse and the problem was the speed with which the economy went into recession, pulling down HBOS with it.

“What happened was very unforgiving and the losses came much faster than anyone anticipated,” he said.

Meanwhile, the British shareholder group, Lloyds Action Now (LAN), is moving a step closer to bringing its own set of legal proceedings through the British courts.

LAN is in discussions with a number of funding specialists.

Having previously intended to fund any legal action with shareholders’ funds, the 4,000-strong group is understood to have received at least one offer of funding.

The group has appointed solicitors Maguire Woods to fight its case and recently received an opinion from Jeremy Cousins QC and Johan du Toit which gave a 70pc-plus “prospect of success”.

“We now have QC’s opinion saying that the prospect of recovering substantial damages is very good,” a LAN spokesman said

High of 27.25p today so far. Looking for my 36p as a realistic New Year present!

£1 by Christmas