In honor of the vengeance justice handed down today by Judge Denny Chin, we found some of the better posts out there re: Master do Ponz getting smacked by the book:
Questions linger over $65bn fraud [FT.com]
Guesstimate Bernie Madoff’s Sentence [DealBreaker]
Madoff’s Little Helpers [Clusterstock]
The Real Victims of Bernie Madoff [Daily Intel]
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Is Patrick Byrne’s Facebook Friends List Motivated by a Farmville Obsession?
We haven’t really touched on the Patrick Byrne’s ill-fated attempt to stalk his critics (and all their friends, acquaintances, and complete strangers) mostly because we weren’t on the list and those that were (including Gary Weiss, Sam Antar, Joe Wiesenthal, and Barry Ritholtz) are doing a fine job of pointing out how desperate, shady, and just plain fucking bad this makes Patsy, his head minion at DeepCapture Judd Bagley, and Overstock look.
We only bring it up now because we’d like to point out that it’s worth speculating on the other side of this story. Our contention is that P. Byrne, being of questionable mind and maturity, is OBSESSED with Farmville and it is his personal mission to destroy the Farmvilles of his critics and their FB friends (now who’s movin’ up in Farmville, bitches?).
This agonizing torture method will eventually wear down the haters to the point to where no one will be able to take the man, his doomed-to-fail quest to locate an auditor, and his company seriously and will thus give up their quest of destroying him.
The only other thing we can come up with is that he has an intense hatred of trite status updates and was going to expose everyone for their lack of substantive commentary but we find all his critics to be interesting bloggers, so we tossed that theory.
Grant Thornton and PwC have got to feel pret-tay good about how this all turned out. If you’ve got you own theories or thoughts on this situation, feel free to discuss them here.
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Which Accounting Firm Will Risk the Label ‘Stoner Firm’?
Medical Marijuana, Inc. who, “is the first public company to recognize the vast and unequaled opportunities that exist in the rapidly expanding medical marijuana industry,” wants to get listed on the OTC Bulletin Board in order to demonstrate it’s desire to become a fully transparent corporation.
The company now needs a PCAOB-registered CPA firm to audit its books, preferably one that’s cool with a little Maui Waui prior to lunch.
More, after the jump
Our thought is that the Big 4 are way too prudish to take on such a progressive client. We’d go so far to say that not even Grant Thornton or BDO Seidman would touch this one. That being said, we’re sure there are a few partners out there that have grow houses that rival anything in High Times.
If you’re sure your partner is a regular Willie Nelson when it comes to kush maybe throw this post their way. In the meantime, feel free to handicap the odds of your respective firm picking this client up. We’d give the edge to any firm from the Santa Cruz area.
Medical Marijuana, Inc. Begins Procedures to Be Quoted on OTC Bulletin Board [Press Release]