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> Besides blowing investors' money on lavish staff events, which is a dick move but not necessarily illegal Can you talk a bit about where the line is between

• dsr_ 8y ago
  If you're in charge of the company, you can authorize expenditures for anything that reasonably relates to the company's business, including attracting investors, retaining employees, or incenting them to succeed. It's reckless to spend all your money on parties, but not illegal. But if you authorize the company to spend money on something which is in itself illegal (cocaine or weed for the parties, hookers instead of strippers), that's illegal. And if you effectively direct the money to your own benefit (pay for your house's landscaping, new pool, pet grooming bill) that's not legal (among other things, it counts as taxable income and I bet you forget to pay on that).
  • cardiffspaceman 8y ago
    I think you left out this one: If you make invoices that say you've ordered soda for the programmers, but there are no deliveries of soda because the money for sodas went to your overseas numbered account, that's illegal.
  • paulddraper 8y ago
    Another place you could go wrong is if you try to hide your poor financial decisions by giving fraudulent reports to shareholders/SEC. (Example: Enron)
• x0x0 8y ago
  From the sec complaint > Defendants at all relevant times were investment advisers within the meaning of Section 202(a)(11) of the Advisers Act [15 U.S.C. § 80b-2(a)(11)]. My personal guess: that law makes various actions (self-dealing, lying about what investment funds are being used for, non-arms-length transactions, etc) crimes instead of civil torts. Plus, you know, just plain fraud.