Barclays bankers jet off to Italy for lavish £500,000 banquet
 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...al-crisis.html

Fatcat Barclays bankers jet off to Italy for lavish £500,000 banquet as country faces up to financial crisis.

While the rest of the country struggles to come to terms with the financial crisis, a group of Barclays bankers have jetted off for a lavish banquet costing more than £500,000.

As British taxpayers faced up to a grim financial future, coupled with the fear of tax hikes following the government's bailout £500billion bailout package, a group of fatcat bosses from Barclays Wealth flew out to the luxurious Villa Erba, beside Lake Como in Italy yesterday for the all-expenses paid jaunt.

Invites alone for the bash are believed to have cost up to £3,000.

Over 300 guests will be wined, dined and entertained with an evening of opera before spending the night in the luxury surroundings of the exclusive Villa D'Este hotel.

Dailymail has some great writers.. they just told us the same thing three times in one article :thumbsup

Oh some American Bankers did the same thing blowing $500,000 for a 3 day stay at a resort in California on Tax Payer money.

Here are the details on the American Bankers:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/f...-bail-out.html
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...cle1785993.ece

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