U.S. Not Seeking Goldman Charges [WSJ]
After a yearlong investigation, the Justice Department said Thursday that it won't bring charges against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. or any of its employees for financial fraud related to the mortgage crisis. In a statement, the Justice Department said "the burden of proof" couldn't be met to prosecute Goldman criminally based on claims made in an extensive report prepared by a U.S. Senate panel that investigated the financial crisis. "Based on the law and evidence as they exist at this time, there is not a viable basis to bring a criminal prosecution with respect to Goldman Sachs or its employees in regard to the allegations set forth in the report," the statement read.
US won’t adopt IFRS for at least five years, says AICPA chief [Accountancy Age]
IFRS adoption by the US is not coming any time soon, according to AICPA [chairman] Gregory Anton. Speaking at the institute's EDGE Conference in Orlando, Florida, Anton told delegates not to expect any movement until after the US presidential elections at the earliest. Anton said the AICPA supports giving US companies the option to use IFRS, and supports the issue of one set of high-quality standards, but warned that the "absolute soonest" IFRS will be seen in the US will be in five to six years' time.
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Jeremy Johnson, a 20-year-old Buffalo Township man accused of breaking into a barn and performing oral sex on a horse, pleaded guilty in Perry County Court this morning to defiant trespass and sexual intercourse with an animal. He was sentenced to 2.5 years of probation. He broke into the Outlaw Stables on Cold Storage Road in Centre Township about 1 a.m. May 2. State police said Johnson told them he had previously been job-hunting at the barn but didn't realize the time. He told the trooper that he'd licked a horse, police reported. Johnson was also ordered to have a mental health evaluation. "I think there is some mental health issue here," Perry County D.A. Charles "Chad" Chenot said. "There's got to be something wrong with someone who does something like this."