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Michael Hamersley is a tax lawyer who, in 2003, became a corporate whistleblower against the accounting firm KPMG's tax shelter fraud.In 2006 he was a candidate for the U.S. Congress in California's 4th congressional district, obtaining third place in the Democratic party primary.
The KPMG tax shelter fraud scandal involved illegal U.S. tax shelters by KPMG that were exposed beginning in 2003. In early 2005, the United States member firm of KPMG International, KPMG LLP , was accused by the United States Department of Justice of fraud in marketing abusive tax shelters .
[3]: 237–238 KPMG had inherited the WorldCom account when it bought Arthur Andersen's Jackson practice in the wake of Andersen's indictment for its role in the accounting scandal at Enron. [ 3 ] : 229 By this time, the internal audit team had found 28 prepaid capacity entries dating back to the second quarter of 2001.
Cynthia Cooper is an American accountant who formerly served as the Vice President of Internal Audit at WorldCom.In 2002, Cooper and her team of auditors worked together in secret and often at night to investigate and unearth $3.8 billion in fraud at WorldCom [1] which, at that time, was the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history.
In 2009, an anonymous letter alleging possible illegal and fraudulent activities by management since 2007 was sent to KPMG Hong Kong, then CMED's auditor, and investigated by law firm Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison.
The Boeing whistleblower’s death is a tragic reminder that society still expects people like John Barnett to become martyrs. Ariella Steinhorn. March 13, 2024 at 10:53 AM. NTSB - Getty Images.
The whistleblower, Jess Hernandez, worked for Airbnb as a contractor from May 2022 until November 2023. She was previously an extremism researcher with the Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium ...
Whistleblower's protection discussion is linked to the LuxLeaks revelations, due to the legal suits against those who were at the origin of the leaks that led to the Luxleaks revelations. The two whistleblowers prosecuted in Luxembourg have progressively become to symbolise the lack of whistleblowers’ protection in the EU.