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Accountants Behaving Badly: Police Department Accountant Couldn’t Be Bothered, PPP Loan Fraud, and a Creepy Tax Preparer

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It’s been a while since we’ve done an Accountants Behaving Badly megapost ( 381 days ago , actually), here’s some bad behavior you may have missed. Twice-Convicted Accountant Is Charged With Embezzling More Than $1.1 Palos Hills Accountant Indicted In $7.8M This stock photo is incredible.

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Friday Footnotes: How Much Big 4 Spent on Lobbying Last Year; Super Bowl Bets; CFOs Feeling Good | 2.9.24

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Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. My buddy from undergrad works office security at one of the Big 4 accounting firms in Midtown.

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Fourteen People Who Inspired Future Tax Criminals in 2022

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The IRS Criminal Investigation unit has released its top cases for 2022 and in it we get reality TV personalities, a rogue tax preparer, some garden variety PPP fraud, and even a former decathlete with his own Wikipedia page. Burnell did not report any of the money he received from victims in 2011 or 2012 on his income tax returns.

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