Ex-SFO boss attacked over 'sloppy' leadership

The Telegraph reports Richard Alderman took 53 days foreign travel in one year and signed off on £1m of unauthorised payoffs to colleagues, MPs heard yesterday. The grilling by the Public Accounts Committee also revealed Alderman (pictured) approved the arrangement which saw SFO's former chief executive Phillippa Williamson work from her Lake District home two days a week, while the taxpayer picked up the £27,600 travel and hotel bill for her three days in London. Under Alderman's tenure the SFO Tchenguiz brothers investigation collapsed, it closed its probe into Bernie Madoff's UK opera...