• LandAmerica: The final days appeared like a Ponzi scheme – Adrienne’s opus on LandAmerica’s shiesty last days. [The Mortgage Lender Implode-o-Meter]
• Ethics Committee Expands Rangel Investigation – You might have a rent-controlled apartment if it wasn’t for this guy hoarding them all. [NYT]
• Obama Has Lunch With Bezos, Business Leaders – C’mon Bam, no JT? [WSJ]
• IFRS Returns to the Front Burner – Tweedie says they’re working hard, working weekends and ordering in to get this done. [CFO]
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Review Comments | 12.21.09
• Christmas Gifts for that Special Tax Person – A possible gift for that Tim Geithner groupie in your life. [TaxProf Blog]
• GM Recruits Microsoft’s Liddell as New Finance Chief – Apparently GM’s finance department had some Deliverance thing going on. [Bloomberg]
• Top 50 Blogs for Accountants – There are some familiar names on this list, including GC. Thanks! [The Biz-Learner]
• Rajaratnam, Chiesi Plead Not Guilty – Doing what’s best for investors is not a crime. [WSJ]
• Crazy Eddie inductee talks about walls of false integrity – Sam Antar = Hall of Famer [Con Artist Hall of Infamy]
Review Comments | 10.07.09
• Democrats Block G.O.P. Move on Rangel – Rangs is still in charge of Ways & Means, thanks to him and his a couple hundred of his friends telling the Republicans to suck it. [The Caucus/NYT]
• Wells Fargo Will Raise Credit-Card Rates Ahead of Law – ” Wells Fargo & Co. plans to raise interest rates on a majority of credit-card customers by 3 percentage points before new rules limiting such increases take effect, according to a company executive.” Get pissed people. [Bloomberg]
• Feds sue Colorado tax preparer, alleging $55M in bogus refund claims – No criminal charges yet but Curtis Morris and his company, Numbers and Beyond, are looking at an injunction getting slapped on their asses. [Denver Business Journal]
• Dell to Build Android Phone for AT&T – Because Ma Bell has done so well handling the iPhone bandwidth sucking problem. [WSJ]
Review Comments | 09.28.09
• Last day for our poll on the Year Ahead and be sure to submit your captions for the Emmys.
• Allen Stanford Can Take A Punch – Probably a small disagreement over some Lucky Strikes. [DB]
• Ex-Enron Broadband Co-CEO Sentenced for Wire Fraud – Does this mean that Enron on the stage will have to do a re-write before coming to the States? [Bloomberg]
• Treasury Department to Examine ACORN’s Compliance With Tax Laws – Surely this isn’t as bad as it sounds. [TaxProf Blog]
• SEC Charges Detroit-Area Stock Broker Who Lured Elderly into $250 Million Ponzi Scheme – Fundamentally disrespecting the elderly. In Detroit no less. This is some special kind of Ponzi Scum. [SEC.gov]
• Axa chief attacks accounting rules switch – Says accounting rules are ‘too important to be left to accountants’. Right. Because insurance companies and governments have such kick ass track records on the subject. [FT]