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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]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A certified public accountant in Franklin has been charged with wire fraud, money laundering, and tax fraud, according to an unsealed federal indictment. According to ...
Federal prosecutors have dismissed a securities and accounting fraud case against two former top executives of Celadon Group Inc., an Indianapolis-based trucking and transportation company that ...
Peregrine Systems [8] [10] corporate executives convicted of accounting fraud; Phar-Mor [8] company lied to shareholders. CEO was eventually sentenced to prison for fraud and the company eventually became bankrupt; Qwest Communications [10] RadioShack CEO David Edmondson lied about attaining a B.A. degree from Pacific Coast Baptist College in ...
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Arthur Andersen LLP was an American accounting firm based in Chicago that provided auditing, tax advising, consulting and other professional services to large corporations. By 2001, it had become one of the world's largest multinational corporations and was one of the "Big Five" accounting firms (along with Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers).
Austal USA, an Alabama-based shipbuilder that makes vessels for the U.S. Navy, has admitted wrongdoing and agreed to pay a $24 million fine to settle an accounting fraud investigation, the U.S ...
Jeffrey Skilling is an American former CEO of Enron Corporation, convicted of securities fraud (and other crimes) for his part in the 2001 Enron scandal, a $63.4 billion bankruptcy ($109.1 billion today).