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Former President Donald Trump's longtime accounting firm recently informed the Trump Organization that 10 years worth of Trump's statements on his financial worth "should no longer be relied upon." The determination comes after New York Attorney General Tish James' office said last month that these "Statements of Financial Condition" repeatedly "misstated objective facts" including the size of his Trump Tower penthouse; overstated his liquidity; deviated from general accounting principles to reach property valuations; "failed to use fundamental techniques of valuation"; and did not disclose that some of those valuations were artificially inflated to help Trump's brand. Mazars said that it...

“MI5 hiring Asian teenagers to fight cyber terror” London, September 21, 2009 First Published: 00:09 IST(21/9/2009) Last Updated: 02:44 IST(21/9/2009) SNIPPET: “MI5 head Jonathan Evans has told his staff that the recruits were essential to combat cyber terrorism which has been traced to China, Russia and Pakistan — the hackers have also intercepted messages from terrorists in Belmarsh maximum security prison, the newspaper said. In a report to Lord West, the Security Minister, Evans has revealed that during the summer over 1,000 hits were made on computers in Whitehall. Other targets have been air traffic control, power stations and the...

Do any of you remember rumblings, about two or three years ago, about the possibilities that the future of law included the use of mega-firms which include lawyers and accountants? Frankly I think that has been set back at least a lifetime in light of the AA situation. Lawyers WHEN IT COMES TO THEIR OWN BUSINESS avoid controversy like the plague. Any thoughts? Freedomlover