Accounting fraud

Eddie Antar, the founder of the electronics chain Crazy Eddie, which collapsed amid accusations of accounting fraud, has died at the age of 68.

Even at 91, former American International Group Inc. Chairman Maurice “Hank” Greenberg isn’t ready to quit fighting.

Three former Tesco Plc executives were charged with fraud and false accounting by the U.K. Serious Fraud Office, after a multi-million dollar shortfall discovered two years ago led to a criminal investigation of the grocer’s finances.

American Realty Capital's former CFO has been charged with orchestrating an accounting fraud that overstated a key metric by roughly $13 million in 2014, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.

The Sarbanes-Oxley provision requiring senior financial officers to adopt a code of ethics tended to reduce the number of earnings restatements by their companies, according to a new study.

The SEC gave out its second-largest whistleblower award ever to a former Monsanto financial executive .

The SEC charged California-based Enviro Board Corp.and two of its executives with using baseless financial projections and other misleading statements to defraud investors.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has reached a settlement in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit involving the 2009 collapse of Taylor Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp.

Executives are worried about whether their companies are doing enough to protect themselves against financial crimes such as money laundering and fraud in the wake of the release of the Panama Papers.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP failed to spot for seven years a multibillion-dollar fraud that led to the demise of Taylor Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp., a lawyer for the lender’s bankruptcy trustee told a Miami jury on Tuesday.

ComScore Inc., the Internet and entertainment research firm, replaced its chief executive officer and chief financial officer as the board’s accounting probe dragged on into its sixth month.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has suspended EFP Rotenberg LLP and an accountant at the firm for failing to detect fraud in the audit of a public company client, ContinuityX Solutions.

Omar Amanat is not shy about his accomplishments. On his website, along with a smiling photograph wrapped in his trademark scarf, he details his exploits and accolades, touting being named one of the world’s most influential Muslims and “the most powerful person in Hollywood you’ve never heard of.”

Sean McKessy, chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s whistleblower office, plans to set down this month.

Some of our favorite examples of tax and accounting professionals breaking bad

A former controller who embezzled $8.7 million from the Pepsi bottling company where he worked and then spent six years as a fugitive on the Appalachian Trail has been sentenced to eight years in prison.

Roomy Khan, a technology executive and financial analyst who helped convict Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam on fraud charges, told a group of fraud examiners last week about how she became enmeshed in the insider trading scheme.

Judge Jed Rakoff told attendees at the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners' Annual Global Fraud Conference in Las Vegas that prosecutors are falling short on prosecuting fraud.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has barred a former corporate vice president and a former controller for false accounting at an electronics company.

Oracle Corp. and its top executives were sued by an investor who blames his stock losses on allegations by a former finance executive that the cloud computing giant doctored its quarterly results.