Accounting Professor Eli Bartov Under Consideration for PCAOB After High-Profile Trump Fraud Trial—Sources
NYU accounting professor Eli Bartov—who testified as a key defense expert witness for then-President Donald Trump in a civil fraud …
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Soyoung Ho covers regulatory and standard-setting activities of the SEC, the PCAOB, and the AICPA for Thomson Reuters in Washington.
Soyoung previously worked for Forbes and the Washington Monthly.
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Florida Businessman, Companies to Pay $20 Million for Fraudulent Loans
The US Department of Justice announced on March 12 that Patrick Walsh, a Florida businessman currently incarcerated, along with ten companies he …
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