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The Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 is a United States federal law that mandates certain practices in financial record keeping and reporting for corporations.The act, Pub. L. 107–204 (text), 116 Stat. 745, enacted July 30, 2002, also known as the "Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act" (in the Senate) and "Corporate and Auditing Accountability, Responsibility, and ...
He said UBS's conduct violated the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate governance law. UBS said it fired Murray as part of a broader cost-cutting that included thousands of job losses, following a $2 billion ...
Corruptly obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding is a felony under U.S. federal law. It was enacted as part of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 in reaction to the Enron scandal, and closed a legal loophole on who could be charged with evidence tampering by defining the new crime very broadly.
In August 2012, Murray filed a claim with the Department of Labor alleging that his employment was terminated in retaliation because of his whistleblowing, in violation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. After 180 days, his complaint lapsed, and Murray exercised his right to file a de novo action in the United States District Court for the Southern ...
In steps Sarbanes-Oxley, the 2002 legislation that was supposed to protect investors from fraud by requiring companies to be more diligent in creating and maintaining internal controls and by ...
Yates v. United States, 574 U.S. 528 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court construed 18 U.S.C. § 1519, a provision added to the federal criminal code by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, to criminalize the destruction or concealment of "any record, document, or tangible object" to obstruct a federal investigation. [1]
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) is a nonprofit corporation created by the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 to oversee the audits of US-listed public companies. The PCAOB also oversees the audits of broker-dealers , including compliance reports filed pursuant to federal securities laws, to promote investor protection.
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