Risky Business

Third-party facilitators have played a critical role in allowing corporate misconduct to happen," according to Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey, Jr., head of the Justice Department's Corporate Fraud Task Force. Stephen Cutler, Director of Enforcement for the SEC, has warned that financial institutions violate the federal securities laws by "contributing to fraudulent accounting and manipulated financial results" of public companies. In a recent report, the Enron bankruptcy examiner described a financial institution as an "enabler" of violations by Enron's officers. In the Sarbanes-Oxley era, the government is not only rounding up the direct violators, but has also brought aiding-and-abetting charges against companies that entered into certain business transactions with other companies accused of securities violations, even though the alleged abettors themselves filed honest reports with the SEC.

21 minute readMarch 01, 2004 at 02:06 PM
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Robert Knuts
Edgardo Ramos
Risky Business

“Third-party facilitators have played a critical role in allowing corporate misconduct to happen,” according to Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey, Jr., head of the Justice Department's Corporate Fraud Task Force.

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