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A month earlier, the company's internal auditors discovered over $3.8 billion in illicit accounting entries intended to mask WorldCom's dwindling earnings, which was by itself more than the accounting fraud uncovered at Enron less than a year earlier. [111] Ultimately, WorldCom admitted to inflating its assets by $11 billion. [112]
Peregrine Systems [8] [10] corporate executives convicted of accounting fraud; Phar-Mor [8] company lied to shareholders. CEO eventually sentenced to prison for fraud and company eventually became bankrupt; Qwest Communications [10] RadioShack CEO David Edmondson lied about attaining a B.A. degree from Pacific Coast Baptist College in California
The WorldCom scandal was a major accounting scandal that came into light in the summer of 2002 at WorldCom, the USA's second-largest long-distance telephone company at the time. From 1999 to 2002, senior executives at WorldCom led by founder and CEO Bernard Ebbers orchestrated a scheme to inflate earnings in order to maintain WorldCom's stock ...
Enron logo. The Enron scandal was an accounting scandal sparked by American energy company Enron Corporation filing for bankruptcy after news of widespread internal fraud became public in October 2001, leading to its accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, then one of the five largest in the world, dissolving.
Macy's said an employee intentionally made accounting errors totaling $132 million to $154 million. Auditing experts told BI the available evidence suggests a failure of internal accounting controls.
Toshiba CEO Steps Down Amid Major Accounting Scandal Toshiba Corp's ( 6502.T ) chief executive Hisao Tanaka and a string of other senior officials resigned on Tuesday for their roles in the ...
GE has been targeted with a report by the forensic accountant who exposed the Bernie Madoff scheme. Harry Markopolos says that GE's accounting is hiding a mountain of losses, which GE denies.
His involvement made the Madoff scheme by far the largest accounting fraud in history, dwarfing the $11 billion accounting fraud masterminded by Bernard Ebbers in the WorldCom scandal. Madoff's right-hand man and financial chief, Frank DiPascali , pleaded guilty to 10 federal charges in 2009 and (like Friehling) testified for the government at ...