“Poor souls, working past cookie and milk time...for once in your lives, you can work like real men and do a proper day’s work. (You really are a bunch of women of the first order).” Wednesday was the day when the cookie finally crumbled for Lewis Chester. A former contemporary of David Cameron’s at Oxford University and once considered one of Britain’s richest financiers, Mr Chester’s hedge fund was on Monday evening found guilty of market abuse in the US and ordered to pay a $76.8m (£48.9m) penalty. The judgment – which Mr Chester plans to appeal against – looks likely to bring to a close a near four-year battle by ... (full story)