Etienne Alexiou

Partners were even told this month's payment would arrive a week late.

And a federal court judge, Nye Perham, has called former ANZ trader Etienne Alexiou a hypocrite, but still found he was right on one key point, that he raised a genuine concern about trading malpractice involving a key interest rate benchmark.

Alexiou wasn't treated as a true boozle-blower, though.

He'd used crude, aggressive language with colleagues at rival banks, then claimed it in court he was talking about whaling.