Page 94, the Private Eye Podcast.

Hello and welcome back to page 94.

My name is Andrew Hunter Murray and here we are the Penultimate Shortless Dee

for this year's Paul Foot Award talking about the story that's brought them here.

I don't need to do any more waffle.

If you've been listening you'll have heard four of these intros already.

Let's get on and hear Shortless D, number five.

I'm Paul Karana Galicia. I'm a reporter at Tautus. I'm

Antonio Kundi and I'm a reporter at the Financial Times. So the story that

brought us onto the Pool for the Award Shortlist was an investigation into the

financier Crispin Ode, who is a larger-than-life figure in the city of London.

He founded one of the city's oldest head fund firms.

He was known as a maverick, the sort of bastion of the old school.

And we reported in June last year a story that detailed 13 women's allegations against Odie of sexual misconduct,

so sexual harassment and sexual assault.

So Crispin Odie started his hedge fund company, Ode Asset Management, in the early 90s.

And for many years he developed a reputation of being a really big risk taker and also being very

outspoken not just on the economy but on politics So he supported individual politicians but also causes like

Brexit. So he became quite divisive but he was also extremely successful as a fund manager.

So his funds returned enormous sums of money.

He himself was, you know, the kind of person who'd feature in the Sunday Times Richless, quite regularly.

Right. And I mean, I think you said in the FT story that he was worth about 800 million pounds?

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