Financial crimes

Pacific time; the foreign country of Texas; COVID fine; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

John Hanson, managing director of BDO's Forensic Investigation and Litigation Services practice, discusses the tell-tale signs to look out for in businesses during the pandemic.

Suppose there was an embezzlement at a large client? What would you wish you had done to stop it?

A Houston tax attorney was charged with helping his client hide $225 million from the IRS, according to the Justice Department.

The disgraced Chinese coffee chain replaced its auditor and said it secured $250 million in funds from a pair of private equity firms.

Founded on fraud; what’s in a name?; taken for granted; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Manhattan investment adviser defrauded his A-list clients of more than $19 billion in history’s largest Ponzi scheme.

Potuck; what a decade; nice work, Genius; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Could be a long haul; Boston illegal; down the drain; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation division is partnering with tax authorities abroad to ferret out signs of tax fraud, targeting financial technology companies and cryptocurrency.

Home boys; going off payroll; building a case; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Initial enthusiasm for change inspired by the country’s biggest postwar accounting scandal is waning in the face of political opposition.

An Ernst & Young partner said his firm fell victim to “criminals,” rejecting allegations EY didn’t do enough to uncover wrongdoing at the now-defunct payment processor.

Most of the insurers that provided the company with director-liability policies have agreed to pay as much as $93 million toward settlements resulting from a 2017 accounting crisis.

Tanked; lobby hobby; you’re not undercover, are you?; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Top executives at companies hit by accounting scandals could lose their bonuses under U.K. proposals for beefed-up regulation after a wave of corporate collapses including Carillion Plc and travel firm Thomas Cook Group Plc.

UnReliable; Terminated; the wire tap; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

In Touch and in jail; end of the ride; took a powder; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

RAP sheet; shipping out; Pelicon; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee want the Internal Revenue Service to assist taxpayers who are getting information returns in the mail for unemployment benefits they never received.