Law Firm Brass Emailed About Fraud Scheme

Friday, 07 March 2014 | by Pat's Picks

Lawyers tell clients all the time not to put anything incriminating into an email. But several executives at a New York law firm apparently ignored that advice when they allegedly plotted to cook the firm’s books to keep it alive during the financial crisis. Prosecutors say the accused men talked openly in emails about “fake income,” “accounting tricks” and fooling their firm’s “clueless auditor.”

SOURCE: New York Times