Coming Sunday

For years, the downtown Metropolitan Financial Center was a symbol of strength and prosperity.

Inside it was 17 stories of chaos – a tangle of cozy business dealings and Byzantine accounting practices that made it near-impossible to comprehend the company’s financial condition.

Unraveling Met’s failure has become a $7.7 million project – and it’s not over yet.

Read John Stucke’s story of Met’s financial mess in Sunday’s Business section.