How Journalism Works: City Hall Cronyism Edition

Let's just imagine I am a certain soon to be ex-journalist for the Evening Standard shall we? Okay here goes:

Boris Johnson personally funneled tens of thousands of pounds to an organisation partly owned by his brother, an investigation by this blog has revealed.

Last year Boris signed off £81,235 to Price Waterhouse Cooper for services of little or no value to taxpayers. The Mayor's brother is a partner of PWC.

The bulk of the fee was for work on the Mayor's Forensic Audit Panel, a politically motivated vanity project led by a former colleague of the Mayor.

After months of investigation, the panel found no evidence of corruption. They also failed to prevent a £100 million black hole appearing in the finances of the LDA.

Investigations by this blog have also uncovered a large fee paid to the Mayor's own publisher Harper Collins. Over £9000 was paid for unspecified 'user licenses'.

City Hall insists that all 'competitive tendering processes' were followed by the Mayor and City Hall.

Okay I'm done now. Has anyone got a spare billboard?