As a follow up to my questions last week on Halyard $HYH I did some more digging on the fraud case and thought I would pass along what I found out. Pete said that Mike did more work on this so it may be repetitive but here goes. I talked to Michael Avenatti the lawyer on the class case. He said the case is ongoing and should go to trial in the next few months. He said it is a Qui Tam case to recover money for the whistle blowers. He is not sure HYH will survive this as they have no insurance
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internal controls during the 2008 financial crisis using exhibit 6-6 with Lehman Brothers. Control Environment Lehman Brothers has a long history. Fuld led the company tide over the difficulties several times and achieve remarkable results when he was the CEO‚ which makes his power be sharply amplified among the Board of Directors. Form his criticism of Joseph Gregory Lee‚ the president and chief operating officer of Lehman Brothers‚ or his $34 million salary even in the turbulent year 2007‚ we can observe
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Payroll Patty Scam The Payroll Patty Scam is a payroll scam were a company nearly lost three quarters of a million dollars. The payroll clerk‚ known at Payroll Patty‚ was creating “ghost” employees in order to hide the fraud she was committing. The payroll clerk was adding these “ghost” employees to a separate cost center which was not noticed since the company typically had seasonal contract labor employees anyways. No red flags were noticed for a long time because it was typical for the company
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Fraud Examination & Forensic Accounting Professor: David L. Cotton Meriann El Haddad Student Travel Agent Fraud Analysis Christopher Ryan Thomas‚ who ran a travel business‚ was sentenced for stealing students’ spring break funds. In September 2006‚ Thomas was selected as a travel agent by the senior class at Hampton University who were planning a spring break trip to the Sunset Beach Resort and Spa in Jamaica. From November 2006 through April 2007‚ Thomas collected approximately
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KPMG United States- Oct. 17‚ 2015 1. Issuer O: “The Firm identified a fraud risk related to revenue. The Firm’s testing of controls over revenue and accounts receivable‚ however‚ was insufficient. Specifically: With respect to one of the issuer’s segments‚ which consisted of three business units‚ the Firm failed to identify and test any controls over revenue and accounts receivable for two of the business units‚ which‚ in combination‚ represented a significant portion of the issuer’s total revenue
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Tanner can get his funds back Fraud. When Tanner was getting information over the hotel‚ Grano‚ the owner‚ stated that the motel netted $30‚000 during the previous year and that it will net at least $45‚000 for the next year. When Grano turns over the motel books‚ which had all the information of the motel‚ and is where Grano could have gotten the information of the numbers that he told Grano during negotiation. But‚ he committed an element of fraud which is silence because in the motel books it
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Livent. Inc Overview In the year 1979 Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb decided to enter the show business world. These two young entrepreneurs were able to convince a well-known Toronto businessman to invest one million in “cinema complex”. Over the next several years Drabinsky and Gottlieb were successfully able to expand their company‚ while they convinced to gather up large sums for the development of multiscreen theaters complexes throughout Canada and the United states. By 1980 Cineplex Odeon
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long period of time. First we have Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae taken over by the US Treasury‚ which is one major event contributing to the subprime mortgage crisis. Then we have the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers which Mamudi (2008) reported to be one of the largest bankruptcy filing in US history with Lehman holding over $600 billion in assets. Then we have the collapse of investment bank Bear Stearns‚ the bailout of AIG and the near-bankruptcy of the country Iceland. In 2007‚ many banks in US and
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By acquiring Lehman Brothers‚ Nomura would be bringing onboard some of the brightest bankers in the industry‚ along with the administrative and technological setup supporting them. But the acquisition also meant that Nomura would be potentially increasing its headcount by almost 8000 employees over Europe and Asia. And these employees would be coming from an organization with a culture very different from Nomura’s existing culture. There was a formidable set of challenges‚ and Nomura ran into trouble
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