Posts Tagged audit fraud
Autonomy and the “willful shock” that accompanies the strategic termination of willful blindness
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery, Legal Malpractice on November 28, 2012
Guest Post by Charles Seavey [Ed. Note: I found this article in a LinkedIn industry group. With the author's permission, it is reposted here. Charles Seavey is a lawyer, consultant and writer. He is one of the few folks who writes more articles than I do! Recently I was asked why we post so many [...]
Another Big 4 Accounting Firm Called On The Carpet
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on September 1, 2012
by Brian Mahany It’s no secret that we are not fans of the Big 4 accounting firms, particularly when it comes to their auditing practices. It’s not these firms don’t employ good people, they do. Rather, the huge accounting firms frequently lose their independence, especially when called upon to audit a client that generates millions [...]
Accounting Firms Chosen To Monitor National Mortgage Settlement
Posted by admin in Foreclosure Defense, Fraud Recovery on August 10, 2012
by Brian Mahany Joseph Smith is a powerful guy. He is the monitor of the $25 billion national mortgage settlement hammered out by 49 states, the federal government and several large lenders including our perennial “favorites”, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citi and Chase. As part of the settlement, several major lenders promised to clean [...]
New Accusations Against Deloitte in Iran Banking Scandal
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on August 9, 2012
by Brian Mahany Behind almost every story about major corporate malfeasance or illegal activity is the untold story of the audit firm who should have caught the fraud. Some stories do get told – David Friehling, the auditor to Bernie Madoff who collected millions of dollars in fees but admitted that he had not conducted [...]
Audit Firm Named In Class Action Suit For Failure To Detect Fraud
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery, Legal Malpractice on August 6, 2012
by Brian Mahany The audit system in the United States is largely broken. The auditors are financially dependent on the very people they are required to audit. If you perform a rigorous audit and get a reputation for not giving clients high markets on their financials you will soon find yourself with no clients. Fail [...]
Another Black Eye For KPMG And The Audit World
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on July 9, 2012
by Brian Mahany Japan’s Financial Services Agency ordered KPMG affiliate KPMG Azsa to dramatically improve the quality of their audits. The Japanese regulator had similar words for Ernst & Young ShinNihon as well. This action comes on the heels of one of the worst accounting scandals in Japanese history, last year’s revelation that Olympus, a [...]
Accounting Firm Sued In Ponzi Scheme Case
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery, Legal Malpractice on November 19, 2011
by Brian Mahany Here is a new twist. A hedge fund sues an accounting firm for its failure to uncover a Ponzi scheme operated by one of the hedge fund’s traders. That might sound farfetched, but its not. New York accounting firm Rothstein Kass was sued by two hedge fund managers in San Francisco Superior [...]
When Auditors Lie
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on August 7, 2011
by Brian Mahany In recent months we have run several stories about the sloppy auditing practices of several accounting firms. From David Friehling, the solo practitioner who served as Bernie Madoff’s auditor, to Arthur Andersen LLP, once one of the “big 5″ accounting firms and auditors of Enron, sloppy auditing is nothing new. Investors and [...]
Another Auditor in the Dock
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on March 19, 2011
by Brian Mahany Federal law enforcement agents have abandoned hopes of prosecuting executives from Lehman Brothers but the firm’s auditing firm may not be so lucky. The New York Attorney General filed fraud charges against Ernst & Young for not reporting Lehman’s true financial condition in the days and months leading up to Lehman’s collapse [...]
Investor Sues Major Accounting Firm, Wins $91 Million (“Gatekeeper Suit”)
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery, Legal Malpractice on February 2, 2011
by Brian Mahany George Batchelor thought he found a sure thing when he decided to invest in Grand Court Lifestyles, a company that operated senior citizen communities. Little did he know that the company was on the verge of bankruptcy. Now a Florida jury decided that Grand Court’s accounting and auditing firm, BDO Seidman, should [...]
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