{"id":748,"date":"2007-06-09T22:14:54","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T03:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2007\/06\/09\/nortel-networks-to-pay-sec-fine-for-accounting-fraud\/"},"modified":"2007-06-09T22:14:54","modified_gmt":"2007-06-10T03:14:54","slug":"nortel-networks-to-pay-sec-fine-for-accounting-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/nortel-networks-to-pay-sec-fine-for-accounting-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Nortel Networks to pay SEC fine for accounting fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nortel Networks will be fined up to $100 million for accounting fraud issues. The SEC began investigating Nortel in 2005 on the civil level. In 2005, the company admitted to overstating revenue by $3.4 billion. $100 million won&#8217;t amount to much for Nortel, which had revenue of $11.4 billion last year. The company has already paid $1 million Canadian to the Ontario Securities Commission to settle that agency&#8217;s claims against the company.<\/p>\n<p>The SEC is also suing the company&#8217;s former CEO, Frank Dunn, and three other former executives. They are accused of falsifying earnings from 2000 to 2004 in order the meet Wall Street&#8217;s expectations and to garner higher bonuses. Nortel is suing the executives as well, seeking the return of bonuses equalling $10.5 million. <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/tracy+coenen\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/tracy+l+coenen\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/accounting+fraud\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nortel Networks will be fined up to $100 million for accounting fraud issues. The SEC began investigating Nortel in 2005 on the civil level. In 2005, the company admitted to overstating revenue by $3.4 billion. $100 million won&#8217;t amount to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-c4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}