Financial crimes

Broker busted; bad habits; home of the braid; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Securities and Exchange Commission and Public Company Accounting Oversight Board finalized 45 enforcement actions involving accountants in 2018, marking a significant decrease from 2017.

Aggravating factors; a big dig; steal of the Century; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Two decades and tens of millions; bank error; dirty deal; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Denmark has reported the local operations of Ernst & Young and KPMG to the police amid a widening crackdown on money laundering in the country.

This tax day, tax evasion has topped $400 billion dollars.

Higher education; tough stains; don’t Betta on it; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti, who made his name as a fierce critic of President Donald Trump, was indicted by a federal grand jury in California on three dozen charges, including a new claim that he stole millions of dollars from a paraplegic client’s settlement.

Revenue officers visited nearly 100 businesses suspected of having serious issues with employment tax compliance.

Less than two months after leaving prison, the former Enron CEO settled a lawsuit claiming he helped defraud a Canadian investment firm.

Steinhoff International Holdings NV pushed back the dates for the publication of audited earnings for 2017 and 2018 after the findings of a forensic probe by PwC made the process more time consuming and complex.

Zapped; drug deals; doing the deduction shuffle; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The rental car company is demanding that ex-CEO Mark Frissora and other former senior managers return incentives they received.

Four-time loser; the thieving IRS; addresses and debit cards; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

CEO Markus Braun tried to put fraud allegations behind him as questions persisted after an external probe failed to resolve issues from potential criminal behavior.

Prosecutors recorded a phone call in which William Singer said his charity was being audited and the parents should tell the IRS their contributions were for needy children.

Wirecard AG surged the most in more than a decade after saying irregularities found in an external investigation into fraud allegations in Asia weren’t material.

Faced with a U.S. indictment, the British tech leader had a simple choice: Focus on the criminal trial—with a possible sentence of 20 years in prison—or fight a civil lawsuit first over accounting fraud.

The federal investigators who uncovered the scam probably got help from the accountants.

Two firms barred; very differently abled; pain in the neck; and other highlights of recent tax cases.