• Herb Greenberg on Crazy Eddie Antar

    Herb Greenbergs thinks the former CEO of Comverse Technology, Jacob “Kobi” Alexander can learn a thing or two from Eddie Antar. Alexandar fled the United States with his family, going to Namibia, allegedly with over $57 million transferred out of […]

  • The effect of Sarbanes-Oxley on boards of directors

    Earlier this year, a paper was released called “The Effects and Unintended Consequences of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and its Era, on the Supply and Demand for Directors.” Clearly there is a one significant cost of SOX noted here – an […]

  • PCAOB Slaps Deloitte on the Hand, Sort Of

    According to CFO.com, the most recent evaluation of Deloitte & Touche by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has them coming up a bit short. The PCAOB report said that four times in 2005, Deoitte failed to do enough work […]

  • Crazy Eddie v. Sam E. Antar

    Decades after their crimes, Crazy Eddie and Sam E. Antar meet face to face. The two were a the helm of a huge fraud called Crazy Eddie’s. The story will be on Business Nation on June 27. Here’s the promo […]

  • Audit fees and Sarbanes-Oxley

    Last month, a paper was released regarding a study of Sarbanes-Oxley and audit fees. “The Effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (Section 404) Management’s Report on Audit Fees, Accruals and Stock Returns” found that audit fees have effectively doubled for public […]

  • Fire tragedy in Charleston

    I received this email from Richard Davis, the star of the old “Flip This House” and the new “Real Deal” and “Real Estate Pros”. I want to thank all of you who have emailed and called to send your condolences […]

  • Michael McGee (Jackson) search warrant details some allegations

    And the evidence mounts…. This time there are more details to the allegations against Milwaukee alderman Michael McGee (Jackson). He set up a “Rapid Response Team” that was supposed to help fight crime. Instead, it seems that it was a […]

  • A Note of Support for James Harris

    Conservative blogger and radio show host James Harris recently gave a speech that he calls “an anti-affirmative action address that I gave for a breakout session” at a black state employees’ convention. The words James spoke were not popular. He […]

  • Plea bargain for attorney in BALCO case thrown out

    Troy Ellerman, the attorney who released grand jury testimony of Barry Bonds in the BALCO steroids case to the media, has had his plea bargain thrown out by a federal judge. Ellerman pleaded guilty to four felonies in February, and […]

  • Former Green Bay Packer under federal indictment

    Sean Jones, a former defensive lineman for the Green Bay Packers, pleaded not guilty today to federal charges of bank fraud. He and four other men are accused of running a mortgage fraud scheme in which they got mortgages based […]