Word: marwick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began getting suspicious a year ago, when Charles Gerrell, an Arkansas mortgage broker who was later convicted with Colino of conspiracy to commit fraud, demanded payment of a commission for arranging a construction loan. A spot internal audit discovered that no such payment was due. Further auditing by Peat Marwick revealed other oddities. In early December 1986, on his return from a jaunt to Australia, Colino found his eighth-floor office sealed off by armed guards. He was escorted from the building shouting, "I'm taking names! I'm going to kick butts when I get back in power...
After graduating, Marphatia obtained an M.A. in accounting from Northeastern University. He then worked for three years for the Boston accounting firm Peat, Marwick and Mitchell as tax consultant. He entered Harvard Law School in the fall...
...companies like Harvard grads; last year one-third of the 200 interviewed students got job offers, according to Chernick. "We've had great success over the past years and we have Harvard graduates currently at the partner level," says a representative from Peat, Marwick Mitchell. "We hire a lot of Harvard people and are very disposed to Harvard students...
...issue is who should be held most accountable for detecting and disclosing management fraud. The debate has heated up since the 1982 failure of Oklahoma's Penn Square Bank and the subsequent near collapse of Continental Illinois Bank of Chicago. Litigants are asking at least $400 million from Peat Marwick for its alleged failure to predict the Penn Square debacle. Then came the 1985 furor over E.S.M., the Fort Lauderdale Government-securities firm, amid a scandal that involved massive fraud. E.S.M.'s auditor, Chicago-based Grant Thornton (formerly Alexander Grant), has reportedly since been slapped with some $1 billion...
...Peat Marwick & Mitchell...