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Hannah Wootton

Lawyers get to the bottom of the Fortescue mob

Nothing makes people in a courtroom sit up quite as fast as a rogue suggestion of mob involvement. Especially if it’s during a tedious case over compensation for a breach of contract between billionaires.

Imagine the surprise in a Connecticut courtroom in the US when Fortescue energy executive Andy Vesey revealed his boss Andrew Forrest had referred to the opponent’s family office as “the Tudor Jones mob” in an internal message.

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Hannah Wootton is a Rear Window columnist, based in Melbourne. Connect with Hannah on Twitter. Email Hannah at hannah.wootton@afr.com

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