Accountants Behaving Badly: DOJ Has Been Busy Busting CPAs For a Variety of Crimes
Plus, a Louisiana tax preparer who pleaded guilty to four counts of tax fraud will be sentenced on Tax Day. New York Accountant Pleads Guilty to Federal Tax Charge [Justice Department] James Guerra, a CPA from Dix Hills, NY, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty on Jan. 25 to a federal tax […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: E Is for Embezzlement, Probation for Thief, Jailed for Bank Fraud
Also, a Texas accountant was sentenced to 10 years of probation for stealing money from a charity, and a U.K. accountant sentenced to three years in jail for defrauding a company pension scheme of £292,000 must repay that money. Kissimmee Accountant Pleads Guilty To Embezzling Funds From Two Different Employers [Justice Department] Kavita L. Harack, […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Insider Trader Settles with SEC, Embezzler Gets Jail Time, Maritime Thief
Plus, accountant’s tax fraud conviction upheld in court, and a Canadian accountant is banned by financial regulator. SEC charges biotechnology company CPA with insider trading [SEC] Jana Faith Kiena, CPA, a former contract accountant in the revenue recognition group at biotech company Illumina, will pay about $374,000 to settle insider trading charges for using confidential […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Ex-Senator’s Tax Guy Gets 18 Months, Embezzling $65M From Clients, Swindling Chamber of Commerce
Plus, retired Arkansas accountant pleads guilty to bank fraud, and soon-to-be-jailed Wisconsin accountant used stolen tax refunds to buy a hooker and drugs. Accountant who helped Brian Joyce evade taxes sentenced to 18 months in prison [Boston Globe] John Nardozzi, a CPA from Waltham, MA, who conspired with former Massachusetts senator Brian Joyce to cheat […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: No Jail for PwC Peeper, Guilty Plea for Embezzler, Catholic Church Crook
Plus, no more lavish lifestyle for part-time accountant, and an accountant gets busted for stealing grocery gift cards. High-flying PwC accountant, 24, who was caught with 1,700 upskirting images after he was spotted behaving suspiciously in Topshop on Oxford Street store is spared jail [Daily Mail] Leon Chan got a suspended prison sentence. On Friday […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Update on Ex-Wife Basher, Bank Fraud Guilty Plea, Sexual Assault
Let’s see who in the accounting profession got into trouble with the law over the past week or so. Asian accountant, 51, who smashed his ex-wife’s head against a car and called her a ‘bacon basher’ after she began dating a white man is ordered to pay her £150 compensation [Daily Mail] Here’s an update […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Busted with Meth, Stealing From Clients, Bank Fraud
A look at the best of the worst accountant malfeasance around the globe over the past week or so. British accountant, 47, faces the death penalty in the Philippines ‘after being caught with meth in a drugs raid’ [Daily Mail] Philip Joseph was in a flat with two locals when police burst through the door […]