Deloitte seeks to avoid liability over US nuclear fiasco

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Deloitte has asked a US judge to throw out demands that it compensate shareholders who lost money in the collapse of one of the country’s largest nuclear power projects, in a case that has exposed the inner workings of the Big Four audit firm.

Recently filed documents detail Deloitte’s work auditing the South Carolina utility Scana before the company abandoned…