Bernie Madoff ripped off people to the tune of billions, and the regulator on watch lost their job and several others got a wrist slap. Is that right? How about dismissing all and canceling their retirement...
Auditing is a partnership If there is wrongdoing, an audit should discover it in collaboration with the audit “client.” A certified audit firm has a professional obligation to ensure that truth is told. The...
Renee Gork, KAKS, Hogs Sports, Radio Personality Fired For Wearing Florida Gators Cap To Arkansas Razorback News Conference Renee Gork has found out that ball caps are serious business in Arkansas. Renee Gork worked for KAKS, a sports radio station in Springdale,...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged investment giant Goldman Sachs with fraud on Friday. The SEC alleges that Goldman failed to disclose information to investors regarding subprime mortgage-backed...
created by Rory Cripps | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 521 views | 24 recommendations | 4 comments
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 4 scene 1 http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/25292.html Double Trouble Indeed! I read an exciting...
opinion by RoryKearney | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 1627 views | 13 recommendations | 3 comments
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) held its first hearing today. According to its website (http://www.fcic.gov/about/), the Commission was established to "examine the causes, domestic and global, of the...
opinion by Mike Kearney | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 582 views | 22 recommendations | 6 comments
Mary Wong of Omaha has been charged by the federal government for orchestrating a ponzi scheme. Mary Wong of Omaha took prospective investors money and instead of investing in luxury assets, funneled the money to support her other companies and lavish lifestyle. Mary Wong...
created by peder.sande | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 2972 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
The SEC, arguably the most powerful conference in NCAA football, is reportedly developing a new "media policy" designed to restricts how much audio, video and "blogs," reporters can dish out during live games. The policy not only covers accredited media, but fans in...
created by Jon Azpiri | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 323 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
As you shelter yourself in a cool closet from the hailstorm of healthcare promotion, Congress and the President are sliding into home plate with compensation controls in the senior offices of financial firms, … for starters. The new Corporate and Financial Institution...
Just when I thought things couldn’t get any shadier, I’ve learned that the lobbyist now representing the Amazon Defense Coalition (via Kohn Swift & Graf, P.C.) in its $27 billion lawsuit against San Ramon,...
opinion by BMCWrites | 2 years ago 319 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
" In a lawsuit filed yesterday in the US Southern District Court of Florida, the SEC alleges the brokers presented the CMOs as suitable products for retirees and conservative investors. In some cases, the CMOs were...
How does it feel to finance the looting of your own retirement money. The parent company of CNBC, which hired Jim to do Mad Money, is General Electric (GE), a company which received 139 billion dollars under...
opinion by RoryKearney | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 8182 views | 24 recommendations | 11 comments
The icon embodying our generation’s perception of the more extreme and baser elements pervasive on Wall Street will receive a sentence this summer that will extend far beyond his life expectancy. The devastated thousands of sources that rendered up the $65 billion Madoff...
"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of...
opinion by RoryKearney | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 1445 views | 26 recommendations | 0 comments
Just when you thought it was safe, once again our Government proves it is one big revolving bed. Once again "we the people" are just an annoyance to the power elite. Who cares what we think and need. They will do...
opinion by RoryKearney | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 738 views | 12 recommendations | 2 comments