8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (1)
#370496 at 2018-02-14 05:07:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #455: Welcome to the Desert of the Real Edition
Are we still looking to keep track of Federal Unsealed Indictments? Like this?
READ THE UNSEALED FEDERAL INDICTMENT
United States of America v. David Middendorf, Thomas Whittle, David Britt, Cynthia Holder, and Jeffrey Wada
United States of America v. Brian Sweet
1/27/2018 Former KPMG Executives Charged With Conspiracy - WSJ
https:// www.wsj.com/articles/former-kpmg-executives-charged-with-conspiracy-1516640050 4/6
Manuel Goncalves, a KPMG spokesman, said in a statement that the firm promptly notified the authorities when it learned of the leaking and has been fully cooperating with the investigation. The firm "took swift and decisive action," he said, including firing the individuals involved, and has since "taken remedial action to assure that such conduct cannot happen again."
According to the indictment, Mr. Sweet arrived at KPMG in May 2015 armed with inside information from the PCAOB, and KPMG executives wasted no time asking him for it. At a welcome lunch in Mr. Sweet's first week of work, Mr. Middendorf asked Mr. Sweet about upcoming KPMG inspections.
Later that week, Mr. Middendorf told Mr. Sweet to remember where his paycheck came from, and urged him to be loyal to KPMG, according to the indictment. At around that time, Mr. Whittle allegedly asked Mr. Sweet for a copy of the PCAOB list of inspections.
KPMG executives urged Mr. Sweet to help recruit others from the PCAOB, including Ms. Holder, who according to the indictment lied to the board's ethics
office about pursuing employment at the firm, allowing her to continue working on KPMG-related matters. At Mr. Sweet's request, Ms. Holder provided him with an internal PCAOB report, among other confidential materials, according to the indictment. She began working at KPMG in August 2015, according to SEC records.
Prosecutors say Ms. Holder soon drew Mr. Wada into the alleged scheme. In November 2015, Mr. Wada gave Ms. Holder the date of a PCAOB inspection of a KPMG matter in Japan, according to the indictment. He also alerted her to a fraud risk in another matter, which allowed KPMG to prepare an answer for why the firm hadn't seen it.
Mr. Wada, too, hoped to leave the PCAOB, prosecutors say. In January 2017, according to the indictment, he emailed Ms. Holder to lament that he hadn't gotten a promotion. "God this place sucks," Mr. Wada wrote. "Please let me know what else you need from me."
1/27/2018 Former KPMG Executives Charged With Conspiracy - WSJ