
CBIZ CEO Slaps Everyone On the Back For a Job Well Done On Acquisition of Marks Paneth
A fairly big public accounting firm acquisition was announced earlier today, as top 11 firm CBIZ went shopping and picked up a Marks Paneth, ranked No. 43 in INSIDE Public Accounting’s top 100 firms list for 2021, reportedly for $81 million. With the acquisition, CBIZ is expected to gain an additional $138 million of revenue […]

Pay Cut Watch ’20: Marks Paneth Partners Bearing the Brunt of the Burden
Let’s hear it for the partners at Marks Paneth, who we were told are taking it on the chin so there won’t be any pandemic-related staff layoffs at the top 40 accounting firm. Apparently Managing Partner Harry Moehringer recently summarized for staff some of the pruning of costs that the firm is undertaking. According to […]

Accountants Behaving Badly: Ex-Marks Paneth Partner Going to Prison, Duluth Chamber Thief Faces New Charges, Selling Unregistered Securities
Plus, an ex-IT accountant in Tokyo was arrested for allegedly embezzling more than 10 million yen, and a Portuguese accountant is accused of having aided illegal immigration and falsified documents. Prison sentence for $2M Westchester fraud marks former Stamford CPA’s fall from grace [Westfair Online] Steven L. Henning, a former partner-in-charge of a litigation group […]

Former Marks Paneth Partner Admits to Screwing Investors Out of $2 Million
Steven Henning, CPA, a former partner-in-charge of advisory services at New York City-based Marks Paneth, could have as long as 20 years to think about his choices: Steven Henning pled guilty today [June 24] to participating in two wire fraud schemes. In the first, he falsely claimed to have entered into multimillion-dollar intellectual property deals […]

BUSTED: Which NYC Firm’s Former Partner Is Accused of Ripping Off $2 Million From Investors?
A CPA and former partner-in-charge of advisory services at New York City-based Marks Paneth LLP was arrested by federal authorities in Florida on Oct. 8 for allegedly bilking investors out of $2 million through an intellectual property scheme. Steven Henning, Ph.D., 57, was charged with one count of wire fraud in a federal court in […]