Financial crimes

Top boss no more; wrong slide of the law; the run’s over; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Busted; ‘an undercover agent or anything;’ dastardly deeds; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

An income statement summarizes revenues and expenses and then reports profits. Isn’t that just like the Christmas letter that summarized all the year’s activities?

Island girls; five-year mission; nurse malpractitioner; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Wirecard AG’s former chief executive officer appeared in public for the first time since his July detention in connection with the collapse of the electronic payment company, but lawmakers hoping for insights from the disgraced manager were left disappointed.

Drug money; Phoenix descending; stepping down; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The press helps keep firms honest, according to a new academic paper.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation unit has been initiating fewer investigations of abusive tax return preparers this past year, while also recommending fewer prosecutions, and seeing fewer indictments and prison sentences this year.

What a POS; bad bet; too sick to go to prison; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

What a steel; there go the judge; children’s books; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Spreading the theft around; re-routed refunds; AIG loses, mostly; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Gone Pro’s; various ways to fraud; oxymoron; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Robert T. Brockman, a Houston software tycoon, was charged with using a web of Caribbean entities to hide $2 billion in income in what prosecutors called the largest U.S. tax case ever against an individual.

Troubled commodities trader GP Global Group has “accounting irregularities” in its books, according to the restructuring adviser hired to salvage the company’s assets.

Three defaults and you’re out; scheme of several years; misstep by misstep; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Smith will acknowledge wrongdoing to end a four-year U.S. tax investigation involving assets held in offshore tax havens.

Two senior executives at Botswana supermarket chain Choppies Enterprises Ltd. are suing former auditors PwC for 653 million rand ($40 million) for not signing off on the company’s 2018 accounts, which led to a share price collapse.

Lost Horizon; crimes of Misdemeanor; Strachans plea; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

General Electric Co. warned that it’s likely to face Securities and Exchange Commission allegations of accounting misdeeds, setting back CEO Larry Culp’s effort to put the company’s rocky past behind it.

German lawmakers have called it the greatest tax heist in history.