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Accounting News Roundup: More on PKF Partner Accused of Theft; PwC Pulled Into TelexFree Mess; Enron’s Loose Ends | 04.07.15

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PKF Pacific Hawaii managing partner Patrick Oki accused of stealing $500K from the companyPBN]
More details in this bizarre story we linked too yesterday: "The indictment said Oki, a certified fraud examiner, was responsible for four fraudulent reimbursement schemes from January 2011 to 2014 against PKF Pacific Hawaii LLP, creating losses of more than $500,000 for the firm. The 13 counts include first-degree theft, money laundering, use of a computer in commission of a separate crime, and second degree forgery. The indictment alleges that Oki deceptively claimed he had personally incurred expenses in connection with services provided to clients. He also allegedly fabricated people, companies, contracts, IRS forms, invoices, financial documents, websites and e-mail addresses, according to the indictment." 

TelexFree lawsuit names Bank of America, PricewaterhouseCoopers [BG]
Both BofA and PwC are alleged to have done business with TelexFree after the company had already been accused of running an alleged pyramid scheme in Brazil.

Brit businessman jumps to his death in Midtown [NYP]
Terrible: "A British man on a business trip jumped to his death from a Midtown apartment window Monday morning, law-enforcement sources said. Ernst & Young employee Duncan Hodgetts, 25, jumped from the 14th floor of the Executive Plaza building at 150 W. 51st St. and was found on a third-floor balcony of the neighboring Michelangelo Hotel at 8:30 a.m. He was declared dead at the scene. According to his Facebook page, Hodgetts lived in Birmingham, England, and worked at Ernst & Young as a tax adviser."

Lynn Tilton Still Has Her Dignity [DB, Earlier]
#Dignity.

PwC winds up last remnants of Enron's European operations [Accountancy Age]
That wasn't so bad!

In key swing states, weed is polling better than all potential 2016 candidates [WaPo]
Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

 

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Proposal Would Create New Accounting Standard-Setter for Private Companies [NYT]
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No big outflows since trade scandal: UBS CFO [Reuters]
“We saw no material change in net new money flows as a result of the trading incident,” CFO Tom Naratil told an investor conference in London. “We believe there is further upside to our overall performance,” he also said.

SEC Asks Apple CFO for Information on Nokia Patent Litigation Settlement [Bloomberg]
The two mobile-phone makers had been in litigation since October 2009, when Nokia filed a lawsuit accusing Cupertino, California-based Apple of infringing patents. Nokia also demanded royalties on the millions of Apple iPhones sold since the device’s introduction in 2007. Nokia said in March it had 46 patents asserted against Apple in civil lawsuits and complaints lodged with the U.S. International Trade Commission.

U.S.-Chinese Progress on Accounting Is Dealt Setback [WSJ]
U.S.-Chinese negotiations to allow American audit-firm inspectors into China suffered a setback Monday, as U.S. regulators indicated that a planned visit to Washington by their Chinese counterparts to continue the talks has been postponed. Regulators previously said the Chinese were slated to visit Washington this month for a second round of the talks, which began in Beijing in July. The two countries are negotiating on whether to allow inspectors from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the U.S.’s auditing regulator, into China to scrutinize the work of Chinese accounting firms which audit U.S.-traded companies.

Crowe to Merge in Perry-Smith [AT]
Puts CH in the San Francisco and Sacramento markets.


Giant Alien Snails Attack Miami, Though They’re Not in Much of a Rush [WSJ]
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Fannie Mae Waited on Loan Abuse Action [Bloomberg]
The inspector general of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, released a report today on outside law firms hired by the government- sponsored firm to handle mortgage defaults. Among other things, the report said, Fannie Mae didn’t act on the December 2003 allegation from an unidentified shareholder until it hired a law firm two years later to look into the matter. In May 2006, the law firm reported to Fannie Mae that Florida-based foreclosure attorneys were “routinely filing false pleadings and affidavits.” Fannie Mae didn’t notify its regulator of the findings, according to the inspector general.