That is why investors were so tolerant in the late 1990s, despite much evidence of accounting gimmickry and worse.

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He said that as the mosque's executive director, he became aware of accounting irregularities which he contends are evidence of embezzlement and tax evasion.

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Their evidence: Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm that collapsed after it was indicted following the Enron Corp. implosion in 2001.

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Now of course, this is simply evidence in a court case not actual proper accounting information.

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Instead, in May 2005 he filed all of six civil charges, among them accounting fraud--and in September 2006 dropped two of them for lack of evidence.

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However, evidence emerged in the Andersen trial that Mr Fastow had rejected a particular accounting treatment for some of the off-balance sheet partnerships, adopting instead something that did not conform with American accounting rules.

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This is evidence that the company's growth and profitability are genuine, not contrived from accounting gimmickry.

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The jury members have seen a slew of witnesses who have consistently corroborated evidence that Lay and Skilling lied to shareholders while at the same time ordering fraudulent accounting practices to the benefit of their own greedy pockets.

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Critics say it's all just business as usual for an agency that, in the last eight years, failed to detect the accounting irregularities at Enron, the mutual fund late-trading activities, the subprime securities bubble, and mounting evidence that there has been trading ahead of major deal announcements.

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