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Web Watch: Best Blog Posts and Columns For the Week Ending Jan. 30. http://is.gd/hRpK #
Web Watch: Best Blog Posts and Columns For the Week Ending Jan. 30
Here is the weekly summary for Securities Docket’s Web Watch (”This Week’s Best Blog Posts and Columns”): WRAGE BLOG (Jan. 30, 2009): Bribery’s Broken Windows If officials face “zero tolerance” for the smallest inappropriate demands, won’t it be more difficult for a culture of corruption to flourish? CLUSTERSTOCK (Jan. 29, 2009): The Madness of Journalists […]
Time to Dust Off the Sept. 2005 Memo to Public Company Employees
Last week’s insider trading settlement between the SEC and a manager at Freescale Semiconductor made it clear that it was time for us to dust off Bruce Carton’s September 13, 2005 memorandum to public company employees. Listen up!
SEC’s Thomsen, Richards, Others to Appear as Witnesses in House Financial Services Committee Hearing Wednesday
Apparently having finally figured out that SEC Inspector General H. David Kotz is not the person they need to talk to now to learn why the SEC missed Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50 billion fraud, the House Financial Services Committee is going to try it again on February 4 with some new witnesses. Reuters reports that […]
Financial Frauds and Financial Crisis Spur Demand for Forensic Accountants
The economic news continues to be grim but one profession that is now booming is forensic accounting. Financial frauds like the Madoff case and collapses of Wall Street companies have driven demand for forensic accountants in the public and private sector. Richard Slavin, principal and chair of the Connecticut law firm Cohen and Wolf‘s securities […]
PwC’s Ireland Office Named as Defendant in Madoff Case Filed in Miami
The U.S. remains the hub of Madoff litigation and fall-out, but activity in the rest of the world is beginning to heat up, as well. The Independent in Ireland reports that the Dublin, Ireland office of accounting firm PwC has now been named in a securities class action just filed in the United States in […]