Barclays boss Jes Staley fooled into email exchange with prankster

CEO’s effusive replies suggest he failed to realise emails from ‘John McFarlane’ after bruising AGM were not from chairmanJust as Jes Staley, the embattled boss of Barclays, might have hoped to lie low after a gruelling confrontation with shareholders he is now facing fresh scrutiny. Email exchanges have emerged in which the American banker lavishes praise on the bank’s chairman, John McFarlane, and thanks him for his support at the annual general meeting on Wednesday. Co