Financial crimes

The Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday that an auditor in Silicon Valley has agreed to settle insider trading charges.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged two former executives at iPayment, a Westlake Village, California-based credit card processing company, with overseeing a scheme to steal millions of dollars via bogus expense reimbursements, inflated invoices and various accounting maneuvers.

With as much as $3 billion on the line, Jon Corzine is trying again to explain away a spectacular blot on his business legacy.

Tax attorneys who didn’t file, 19 suspended preparers in Maryland, and other highlights of recent tax fraud cases.

Medbox founder agrees to disgorge $12M and banning

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP is putting the blame on MF Global Holdings Ltd.’s former chairman Jon Corzine for the New York brokerage’s collapse in 2011.

Homex allegedly falsified sales of over 100,000 homes to inflate revenue for three years in a row.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP’s epic screw-up at the Oscars could carry a high cost if jurors arrive at a malpractice trial next week suspecting the global accounting firm is error-prone.

A California tax prep office is robbed, plus our weekly roundup of tax fraud cases.

Caterpillar Inc., the bellwether U.S. equipment maker praised just last week by President Donald Trump, now finds itself a government target as federal tax and banking authorities raided its Illinois offices.

Budgetary constraints contributed to the continuing decline in caseload.

Fraudster faces charges for soliciting taxpayer info for false returns, plus other highlights of other recent cases.

In this time of great upheaval in our nation’s history, find peace in the things that remain constant—one of them being that someone will always try to use taxes to steal money.

Fake children and other highlights of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Protect your clients from the Form W-2 email phishing scam that has now evolved beyond the corporate world and is spreading to other types of organizations.

Natural-food supplier that began a probe of its accounting practices last year, fell as much 15 percent after saying the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has opened a formal investigation into the matter.

Ex-American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Maurice “Hank” Greenberg admitted to taking part in two deals to make the insurer’s financial condition look better than it was as part of a $9.9 million settlement with New York that has dragged out for almost a dozen years, the state’s top lawyer said.

Corrado Sciolla quits as the fallout from the British phone carrier’s Italian unit spreads.

Using your late mother’s Social Security number for fraud, and other highlights of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Boaz Schwartz was detained over alleged value-added-tax violations involving the company’s clients, the latest setback in the German firm’s attempts to end years of legal issues and misconduct.