sean1 said:
Yes,
Enron was scamming and paying off their accountants.
There is no indication Neteller was doing the same.
Is it possible that a company was scamming accountants and the DOJ targetted them for something unrelated in the same year? Sure, but unlikely.
Sean
The point is...when it is over...It's OVER! Delay tactics turn into stiff-jobs way more often than Payoffs. Explosion....Implosion....Erosion.....Distant memory.
The government has said this is part of a collossal conspiracy...I'll leave it at that. Many say that the money is there. I say it is NOT there, and even if it was, then the government will likely take it...or Neteller will go Bankrupt. Nobody saw a penny from BetOn Sports.
Remember ZZZ Best?
Zzzz Best went public on the stock market in
1986. When accountants wanted to inspect Zzzz Best's operations, Minkow borrowed fake offices for a tour of Interstate Appraisal Services and used an incomplete building to present a fake restoration job. He used US$2 million to complete the building in twenty days.
There were signs of problems, but investors chose to ignore them. The company's Chief Financial Officer also owned a florist's business, and that company was accused by customers of having stolen over $92,000 by charging flowers to their credit cards without authorization. Minkow decided to ignore these allegations, and short-sellers including the
Feshbach Brothers, took positions betting that the stock would fall.
Magazines and TV shows did not bother to check his background. Investigations by the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the
FBI, two accounting firms and various individual investigators found nothing. Minkow bribed a security guard to give him access to a newly constructed building in
Sacramento, California, so that he could present it to his auditors as a wreck that Zzzz Best had recently finished restoring. Zzzz Best was about to buy rival carpet cleaning company KeyServe when their stock suddenly plunged. Members of the press had been researching the company, and communicating with short-sellers who had done their own research. These investigations indicated that the company's contracts had been largely fictional. The story ran in the
Los Angeles Times, and spurred FBI investigation of Minkow's link to the Genovese crime family and white separatist movements. Minkow was arrested and indicted in
1987.
How about Bre X?
Bre-X Minerals Ltd., a member of the
Bre-X group of companies, was a junior
Canadian mining company that was once reported to be sitting on an enormous
gold deposit at
Busang,
Indonesia (on
Borneo). Bre-X bought the Busang site in March
1993 and in October
1995 announced significant amounts of gold had been discovered, sending its stock price soaring. Originally a
penny stock, its stock price reached a peak at $286.50 (
Canadian dollars) on the
Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), with a total capitalization of over $6 billion Canadian dollars.
Busang's gold resource was estimated by Bre-X's independent consulting engineer, Kilborn, to be approximately 70 million ounces. Reports of resource estimates of up to 200 million ounces were never made by Bre-X though the property was described as having this potential. Bre-X's gold resource at Busang was a massive
fraud. Encouraging gold values were intersected in many drill-holes and the project received a positive technical assessment by Kilborn. Crushed core samples had been falsified by
salting with gold that has a wide variety of characteristics that had been subjected to mineralogical examination by Bre-X's consultants. The salting of crushed core samples with placer or supergene gold constitutes the most elaborate fraud in the history of mining. In
1997, Bre-X collapsed and its shares became worthless in one of the biggest stock scandals in Canadian history, and the biggest mining scandal of all time.