Auditing Firm Accused of Improprieties; SEC: Arthur Young Borrowed From Client

From: The Washington Post | Date: June 14, 1991| Author: John M. Doyle | Copyright information

The Dallas office of the accounting firm Arthur Young & Co. claimed to be independent auditors of a Texas bank while some of the firm's partners received more than $20 million in loans from the bank, federal regulators charged yesterday.

In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged that Ernst & Young, the accounting firm's successor, failed to disclose that its independent auditor status had been compromised by loans from Republic...

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