Housekeeper AND an accountant.
It will be 50-year-old Clayton's second High Court action in the space of six months.
In January, the High Court agreed to freeze the assets of Clayton's former housekeeper, Carol Hawkins, after the court heard claims that she had defrauded him of up to €1.8million.
Now Clayton has lodged papers at the High Court signalling his intention to bring a negligence claim against Smyth and two other accountants -- Jill Percival and Pat Cleary -- in Smyth’s company.
The ease with which his former housekeeper was allegedly able to take €1.8million from his accounts, taking €600 a day from his debit and credit cards for up to three years, alarmed Clayton.
The housekeeper allegedly used the money to go on a spending spree, which included the 2007 purchase of a $465,000 New York apartment, cars and jewellery, as well as living a rock star lifestyle far beyond her means.
At one stage, she was spending €900 a month maintaining racehorses.
This is Adam taking his finances seriously ? Should be interesting to see him really let his guard down...
Bono is not a smart investor on his own. See above. That is why it's good U2 has people in their own organisation taking care of their money, starting with McGuiness. Their choices have made the band sucessful.
So he discovers it within 3 years and gets rid of the people who allowed it to happen. That's really not giving a damn.
Context is essential here.
1.8 million gone sounds completely irresponsible, but it's a drop in the bucket for Adam.
Like anyone with a lot of money, he hires people to look after his assets. Holding these people to account when they don't do what they're hired to do is the responsible thing to do.
A lot of people with Adam's money would not be asking the same questions he asked that ultimately led to this discovery.
Very few would even notice that amount missing.
Anyways, you are using this to go way, way out on a limb to say that U2 aren't very involved in finances or financially savvy people, which is completely false by any standard.
They're in some of the best business arrangements of anyone in the industry and their acumen for this stuff has been evident since interviews back in the early 80's.