Recently, there have been reports that indicate 15% to 19% of gift cards purchased from retailers are never redeemed. Huh? Up to 1/5 of people don’t spend that gift cards they’re given??? What a travesty! But there is hope. Websites […]

The confession by Apple Computer executives has gotten more serious. Previously, it was believed that stock options were backdated a’la several public companies. It’s now been revealed that executives also falsified documents related to stock options in order to personally […]

A recent article on Forbes.com put the whistleblower issue in perspective financially. In the last year, the Justice Department says that whistleblowers revealed $1.3 billion of fraud, mostly in the health care arena. This was apparently one of the bigger […]

According to a report by the Associated Press, President Bill “Clinton’s national security advisor removed classified documents from the National Archives, hid them under a construction trailer and later tried to find the trash collector to retrieve them.” Former national […]

Apple Computer Inc. still hasn’t filed its annual report with the Securities and Exchange Commission, saying that it is still investigating the backdating of stock options. Apple needs to restate some historical financial statements to record additional compensation expense, and […]

Today Jeffrey Skilling, the 53-year-old former CEO of [tag]Enron[/tag], reported to [tag]prison[/tag] in Waseca, Minnesota. He begins his sentence of 24 years and 4 months in a low-security Federal Correctional Institution. Skilling’s conviction includes federal charges of [tag]fraud[/tag], [tag]conspiracy[/tag], and […]

Did you know that under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, each registered public accounting firm providing audit report for more than 100 companies (issuers) must undergo an annual Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) inspection? The PCAOB examines selected financial […]

ViAnna Jordan is seeking to unseat criminal and Milwaukee Common Council member Michael McGee (Jackson). ViAnna’s supporters circulated petitions for a recall of McGee/Jackson. McGee/Jackson signed one of those petitions, and is now claiming that he was told it was […]

A group of so-called community leaders have come out publicly to defend Michael McGee (Jackson), Milwaukee criminal and city council member. They claim he is very involved in the community, and that should overshadow his criminal behavior, which includes: Perjury […]

Jospeh Stromei, a Milwaukee police officer who was fired because of his involvement in the Frank Jude Jr. beating case, has admitted to a federal judge that he lied to investigators and during the trial. At a hearing for Stromei’s […]