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hmmh... a manager changing the date on a contract after the fact so it generates more money for him/her is actually pretty obviously a red flag. Kudos to Ben fo
by RockyMcNuts 13y ago
hmmh... a manager changing the date on a contract after the fact so it generates more money for him/her is actually pretty obviously a red flag. Kudos to Ben for doing the right thing. If the government couldn't prove beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury that it was wrong, she wouldn't have gone to jail. (Not saying innocent people never go to jail, but it's not like she was an indigent defendant, she had a lot of resources and incentives to fight if it was defensible)
- x0054 13y agoThat's not true at all. This is a federal system, and she probably plead guilty because her choices probably were plead guilty and get 3 months in jail or plead innocent, go to trial, and get 20 years. The federal system is beyond fucked up, and they are making it worse every year.
- Spooky23 13y agoExactly. Someone decided that this individual needed to be made into an example and go to jail for some nominal amount of time. Period. Go to trial, and they would find some statement made in hours of interrogation that wasn't 100% accurate, and convict her of lying to a Federal officer.
- RockyMcNuts 13y agoThis is the USA, don't talk to the authorities without a lawyer, and don't say anything if you can't say the truth. If she doesn't know that she has no business being a CFO.
- einhverfr 13y agoIf the contract is to create another contract effective at a specific date based on what makes more money for the employee, that raises no red flags in my mind from a legal perspective or an accounting principles perspective. Unfortunately those are not the only things at issue. One key thing involved is uniformity from an investor's perspective and I think that's where the idea runs off the rails.