‘Shortly after leaving his post as a managing director of Goldman Sachs, Ron Beller reviewed his private accounts in August 2001. The financier, who is aged 41, found that his investment account was “one or two million light” but could not trace the money and decided he was mistaken. Had Joyti De-Laurey ended her campaign of larceny from her employers at that stage, she might never have been caught.

Mr Beller, the husband of Jennifer Moses, De-Laurey’s original employer at the bank, said in court that he had made “a lot of money” when Goldman Sachs was floated in 1999. But he denied that the £1.1m taken from him and his wife was a “paltry sum” which he had allowed De-Laurey to take.

The trial jury was told that the couple led a wealthy lifestyle with a large house in New York, looked after by housekeepers and landscape gardeners, and were personal shoppers at the exclusive Manhattan store Bergdorf Goodman.
JENNIFER MOSES

When she was approached by her secretary in November 2000 with a request for a house loan, Mrs Moses had little hesitation in handing £40,000 to Joyti De-Laurey. The 42-year-old former managing director at Goldman Sachs had built up a close relationship with her personal assistant since her role as a temp was converted into a permanent post in 1999.
Well, she solved one person’s poverty, anyway.

With people like Moses around him, it’s no wonder Brown’s so out of touch with ordinary people on the impact of food inflation, utility bills, and tax hikes!