Innocent lives have been devastated by the crook who cooks the books of a publicly traded company, the charlatan who sells phony bonds, and the confidence man who runs a Ponzi scheme,
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Federal prosecutors announced a 36-count grand jury indictment against four executives charged with defrauding investors in a public technology company of dlrs 140 million in a " cook the books " scheme.
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"I don't think anyone at Stamford said, ` Let's cook the books, "'said James W . Lundy, a former Xerox executive who is now a research director at the research firm Gartner.
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Frederick Freyer wrote the music and Patrick Cook the book and lyrics for this show based on Kipling's story of a boy who falls off a yacht and is rescued by fishermen.
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"We can't afford to just teach kids how to take a state test while leaving them with serious learning deficits, any more than we can afford to cook the books and bust our budget,"
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"Wetlands banking is a way to cook the books to achieve no net loss in wetlands while allowing businesses and developers to destroy wetlands, " said John Stouffer, an Albany lobbyist for the Sierra Club.
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"We did not, I believe, encounter a setting where Arthur Andersen did something to allow us to cook the books or to misstate earnings or something of that nature, " he told the Globe this week.
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"We can't afford to just teach kids how to take a take a state test, while leaving them with serious learning deficits, any more than we can afford to cook the books and bust our budget,"
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The huge vote on the bill, which creates an autonomous accounting oversight board and would require hefty jail sentences for corporate officers who cook the books, hid disagreements about what the final legislation should look like.
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"They cook the books, use rosy economic scenarios that don't come to pass, they engage in unsustainable spending in the form of tax cuts, and they don't worry enough about the human side of the ledger ."
