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When The Hurlyburly's Done: The Bar's Struggle With The Sec, Susan P. Koniak
When The Hurlyburly's Done: The Bar's Struggle With The Sec, Susan P. Koniak
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Enron went bust. Global Crossing went bust. WorldCom went bust. And underneath all their apparent gold we found, not mere mistakes, but rot and more rot and more rot still. And the rot had to be named, and it was: accounting scandal. The name stuck, and names matter. Arthur Andersen knows.
Corporate Fraud: See Lawyers, Susan P. Koniak
Corporate Fraud: See Lawyers, Susan P. Koniak
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The accounting profession must bear a good deal of responsibility for the current wave of corporate scandals, as must those CEOs whose watchword was greed, lackadaisical directors, projections-for-hire investment analysts, banks selling methods designed to deceive, and institutional investors asleep at the switch. One set of villains, however, have managed thus far to float beneath the radar screen and thus escape the lion-sized portion of blame that should rightly be laid at their door: lawyers.