Accountants Behaving Badly: E Is for Embezzlement, This Lady Is a Wreck, Records Destruction!
Plus, a U.K. accountant is going to spend some time in jail for stealing money from two nursery schools, which she used to treat herself to a new kitchen. Accountant arrested for embezzling $1.2 million from furniture firm [Woodworking Network] Manuel “Mendy” Goldring was arrested on Feb. 18 for allegedly embezzling $1.2 million from Academia […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Pool Guy Gets Jail, Inhumane Behavior, Trouble At the Chicken Farm
Plus, not only did a financial controller in the U.K. get five years for stealing £437,000 from her employer, but she also royally screwed over her co-workers. Accountant sentenced in federal court for embezzling $470K from family-owned business [St. George News] Richard William McDonald, an accountant currently living in Greer, SC, was sentenced on Dec. […]
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: Get a Load of This Clown
A Minnesota accountant was sentenced last week for stealing from his client and is now on the hook to pay back $355,000. The StarTribune reports: A Duluth accountant says he will pay back more than $355,000 he stole from two local businesses, including the Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce, after pleading guilty on Monday to […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Ex-KPMG Auditor Arrested, Embezzler Gets 5 Years, Fraudster Gets 2 Years
Plus, Australian accountant caught up in cheese scandal, and an accountant in Fiji accused of defrauding a client pleads not guilty. Sipho Malaba arrested in connection with the R2,7 billion VBS Bank robbery [Pindula News] Former KPMG South Africa auditor Sipho Malaba was one of seven people who were arrested on June 17 for their […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: KPMGer’s Racist Facebook Rant, Wife Killer Charged Again, Thankful For the Rona
Plus, serial embezzler sentenced to nearly three years in prison, and United Arab Emirates accountant jailed for money laundering. KPMG distances itself from manager’s ‘racist’ Facebook rant [Trinidad Express] Sachin Boodram, an audit manager at KPMG in Trinidad and Tobago, probably should’ve just stuck to posting selfies, inspirational quotes, and recipes on his Facebook page. […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Boozin’ It Up, Embezzling Old Folks’ Home, Fake Robbery In India
Plus, two bookkeepers—one for a church and the other for an accounting firm—are busted for stealing money. Trainee accountant stole £60,000 from boss to fund six months of hard drinking [Metro] Jake Currie used his job as a trainee accountant to fake invoices and frittered away £40,000 of the money he stole on getting wasted […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Whitley Penn and 3 CPAs Fined, Misappropriation and Mail Fraud, Gambling Away Client Money
PCAOB fined Whitley Penn $200,000, three CPAs for really crappy auditing Back in March, the PCAOB disciplined top 45 firm Whitley Penn and three of its partners for ignoring the fact that there are PCAOB rules in place for public issuer audits. With all the coronavirus hysteria that has been going on, we failed to […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Ex-BDO Puerto Rico MP Charged, Sick Demands, Stealing $365K
Plus, chartered accountant jailed after stealing £86,000, and bankrupt New Zealand accountant sentenced for swindling horse trainers. Ex-Puerto Rico officials charged in corruption probe [Bloomberg] Fernando Scherrer-Caillet, ex-managing partner of BDO Puerto Rico, was one of six people indicted by the U.S. Justice Department on March 11 over allegations of theft, money laundering and wire […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Ex-UAW President Charged with Embezzlement, Not Guilty Plea In Theft Case, Tax Fraud Sentencing
Plus, an accountant in India was arrested for secretly recording videos of women taking baths, and an Oklahoma City accountant was sentenced to 18 months in jail for embezzling more than $175,000 from her former employer. Former UAW President Gary Jones charged in U.S. corruption probe [Reuters] Former United Auto Workers President Gary Jones, who […]
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 […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Golf Club Thievery, Ripping Off Nonprofit, Tax Collector Gets Jail Time
Plus, tax preparers from Louisiana, Mississippi, and New York got into some trouble. Former accountant at Somerby Golf Club in southeast MN charged with stealing $450,000 from business [CBS Minnesota] Gordon Craig Perkins, who was in charge of handling the money, expenses, and bills for Somerby Golf Club in Byron, MN, was charged last week […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Screwing Over the Mennonites and Amish, Exploiting Elderly Clients, Guilty of Conspiracy
Plus, an Indiana accountant gets jail time for wire fraud, and an Arkansas church accountant is in police custody for allegedly stealing more than $70,000. Berks County accountant allegedly victimizes the Mennonite and Amish communities in massive Ponzi scheme [Justice Department] Philip Riehl was charged on Jan. 31 with conspiracy, securities fraud, and wire fraud, […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Jailed Over Child Porn, Andersen Alum Fired By Law Firm, Nursery Thievery
Plus, ex-Las Vegas CPA pleads guilty to bribery, and a bookkeeper is accused of stealing $400,000 from two family businesses. San Rafael accountant, ex-Boy Scouts volunteer gets prison for child porn possession [KPIX] John Blecka, CPA, was sentenced in federal court in San Francisco on Jan. 14 to two years and nine months in prison […]
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: Deloitte Malaysia Partner Fined, Guilty Plea In $1.2M Scam, Jailed for Xmas
Plus, several tax preparers have run afoul of the law. SC fines Deloitte’s partner for non-compliance [The Malaysian Reserve] Huang Khean Yeong, a partner at Deloitte PLT, was fined RM63,000 by the Securities Commission Malaysia’s Audit Oversight Board on Dec. 26 for failing to comply with the international standards on auditing when performing an audit of […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Sexually Assaulting Children, Guilty Plea In Visa Fraud Case, A Roudy Theft
Plus, U.K. accountant charged with misleading pensions regulator, and an Isle of Man chartered accountant is banned. Accountant, 57, and his boyfriend, 56, are jailed for total of 30 years after sexually assaulting children as young as 11 while they filmed their sick acts [Daily Mail] Asswipes. Richard Townsend, 57, abused children as young as […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Retirement Fund Theft, Defrauding Nursing Home, Fraudster Going to Jail
Plus, two tax preparers, who as it turned out weren’t registered tax preparers, are sentenced for filing false tax returns. Plymouth accountant charged with stealing from county retirement board [Wicked Local] Paul Hurley, the former accountant of the Plymouth County Retirement Association, is accused of stealing money from the fund. He was arrested on Nov. […]
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: Ripping Off Olympian, Ex-IRS Employee Jailed, Stealing From Your Own Firm
Plus, a Massachusetts accountant pleads guilty to tax fraud, and a Toronto accountant gets prison time for stealing from charity. Oregon CPA who ripped off Olympic snowboarder and spent trust fund of porn shop heirs headed to prison [The Oregonian] Nathan Wheeler was sentenced to four years and three months in federal prison on Oct. […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Defrauding the IRS, Stealing From School, Drunken Leadfoot
Plus, an accountant allegedly stole thousands from an ice rink construction company, and a male tax preparer who pretended to be a woman named Alyssa Jean Pipes is accused of screwing over his clients. Former state senator’s accountant convicted of tax fraud [Justice Department] John Nardozzi, an accountant for former Massachusetts senator Brian A. Joyce, was […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Train Station Turd, College Crook, Fake CPA’s Fraud
Plus, a New South Wales accountant got jail time for stealing moola from clients, and a Texas tax preparer is going to prison for a while for defrauding the U.S. Drunk trainee accountant who pushed man onto Tube tracks has sentence increased [The Times] Mathuram Muthuraja, a trainee accountant who drunkenly pushed another man onto […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Rogue Tax Preparers, Suzuki Theft, Kiddie Porn
Plus, Filipino accountant gets jail time for embezzlement, and a CFO will spend time in a Canadian prison for stealing money to fund her opioid addiction. Former New Haven tax preparer pleads guilty [Justice Department] Devon Williams pleaded guilty on Oct. 2 to one count of aiding and assisting the preparation of a false tax […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: FUBARed Over FBARs, Fake Returns, Landscaping Larceny
You are probably having a better Labor Day than these six accountants. Former CPA indicted for failing to report foreign bank accounts and filing false documents with the IRS [Justice Department] Ex-CPA Brian Booker was charged by a federal grand jury on Aug. 27 with failing to file Reports of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Deadly Lunch Breaks, Embezzler Gets 10 Years, Church Swindler
Plus, tax accountant pleads guilty to scamming clients and a movie production accountant is accused of stealing money from his employer. Police: Lindenwold man’s ‘demeanor’ changed after co-worker’s murder [Cherry Hill Courier-Post] Kenneth Saal, a staff accountant at Engine Group in Princeton, NJ, since July 2016, was taken into custody on a murder charge at […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Stealing From Nonprofit, Stealing From Restaurant, Stealing From Furniture Business
Plus, CPA for reality television stars indicted and accountant arrested for stalking woman. Accounting coordinator at non-profit facing fraud charges for embezzling $321K in organization funds [Justice Department] Danielle Strother-Rush, an accounting coordinator at a Pittsburgh-area nonprofit organization, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh Aug. 6 on charges of bank fraud and […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Ex-CFO Busted For Embezzlement; Fraudulent Timesheets; Ripping Off Client
Plus, an accountant is accused of keeping a domestic slave at his house and an accounting officer is going to jail for swindling his firm out of £3 million. Former Walton Beverage financial officer sent to jail for embezzling company funds [The Bellingham Herald] David McLeod, CPA, the former CFO of Walton Beverage in Ferndale, […]
All Fat Guys Can Relate to Ex-BDO Puerto Rico Managing Partner Trying to Put On a Belt
Here’s a question to all my fellow overweight brethren: Is there anything worse than trying to put on a belt while wearing a dress shirt? If you’re like me, after you tuck in the shirt, you poof it out in the front, back, and sides so it doesn’t cling to your stomach and love handles, […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Insider Trading, Poker Player Gone Bad, Sex Toy Assault
Was there a full moon on July 10? Accountants were found to be doing bad things on that day. Ex-Illumina accountant accused of insider trading [CFO] Martha Bustos, a former accountant for Illumina, was charged on July 10 with leaking the biotech company’s quarterly results to a close friend as part of an insider trading […]
BDO Puerto Rico Managing Partner Resigns After Indictment In Massive Corruption Scandal
The words “managing partner” and “corruption” used in the same sentence is never a good thing, as we found out in the KPMG/PCAOB information leak scandal. But while there was no scheme to steal confidential information from an audit regulator going on in Puerto Rico, there were allegations of money laundering, theft, and wire fraud […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Form 941 Shenanigans, Embezzlement, Stealing From Mom
Here are some accountants who failed badly at being a trusted advisor. Delaware County accountant charged with multiple tax offenses [Justice Department] Myles Hannigan, an accountant from Newtown Square, PA, was charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on July 3 with one count of obstructing the due administration of […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: X Factor Winner’s Ex-Accountant Banned, Drunk Driving, Theft
Yes, there actually are accountants who behave badly who don’t work at KPMG U.S. or Deloitte U.K.: X Factor star’s accountant is banned from his profession [Essex Echo] Here’s an update to an article Adrienne wrote earlier this year: A south Essex accountant who defrauded X Factor winner James Arthur of almost £600,000 has been […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Lots of Theft, Ponzi Scheme, Tax Evasion
Here’s a roundup of some bad stuff accountants did or were accused of doing over the past week or so. Auto shop accountant charged with stealing over $175K from employer [Chicago Sun-Times] Rungnapa Correia is accused of stealing more than $175,000 from a Bensenville, IL, auto repair shop she used to work at as an […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Beating Up Ex-Wife, Tax Crimes, Stealing Lots of Money
Spend some time this Memorial Day remembering those who died serving our country and reading about how awful some people in your profession really are. Asian accountant smashed ex-wife’s head against a car outside David Lloyd centre and called her a ‘bacon basher’ after she began dating a white man who worked at their lettings […]
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 […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Murder, Webcam Models, Defrauding Celebrities
It was a bad week for accountants from the U.K. with the first name of Andrew. AFC Fylde accountant blew £240,000 on sex, drink and drugs [BBC News] A semi-professional socc … I mean, football team in England nearly went belly-up because its finance director, Andrew Barnbrook, stole thousands of pounds from the team to […]
Bad MLB Pitcher-Turned-Bad Accountant Fesses Up to Stealing $145,000 From Employer
The Minnesota Star Tribune has an update on Ben Hendrickson, the former Milwaukee Brewers pitcher whose post-baseball accounting career took a dubious turn while employed by Floors Northwest in Fridley, MN. A Twin Cities man who briefly pitched in the Twins organization and had two short stints as a Major Leaguer has pleaded guilty after […]
Accountants Behaving Badly: Strangling Wife, Stealing Money From a Band, Shopping Spree on Company’s Dime
A look at the best of the worst accountant malfeasance around the globe over the past month or so. CA throttles wife to death, tries to pass it off as suicide, arrested [Times of India] Here is a disturbing story out of India: Jaiveer Singh, a 52-year-old chartered accountant, was arrested on May 1 for allegedly […]
Ex-MLB Pitcher’s Career as an Accountant Not Going Really Well
A Minnesota man who twice had a cup of coffee in the big leagues as a pitcher with the Milwaukee Brewers was charged last week for allegedly cheating a flooring company out of about $250,000 while working there as an accountant. Ben Hendrickson, 37, of Excelsior, Minn., was charged in Anoka County District Court last […]
Express Scripts Accuses Ernst & Young Partner of Being the Worst Corporate Spy Ever
Late on Friday, Bloomberg reported that Express Scripts was suing Ernst & Young and a former E&Y partner for "theft of trade secrets and misappropriation of the pharmacy benefit manager’s confidential and proprietary data." Which is really just a very nice of saying "corporate espionage." And perhaps not surprisingly, the partner in question, Don Gravlin, wasn't […]