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 […]
Ex-KPMG Partner’s Broker Probably Won’t Be Doing Any Insider Trading For a While
The last man standing in the KPMG insider trading case (the one not involving Scott London) has finally fallen. From the SEC: Today [Aug. 14], jurors in Atlanta federal court returned a verdict finding New Jersey securities broker Raymond J. Pirrello, Jr. liable for insider trading in advance of three merger and acquisition transactions. Pirrello […]