Anyone ever hear of an escrow fund subject to independent audit and verification?

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The IRS does not audit funds and fund managers as much as it should.

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Vortmann requesting a comprehensive audit of the fund, Shipione listed a slew of concerns, ranging from conflict of interest and disclosure policies to risk management, asset allocation and investment strategies.

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Concerns about CalPERS' inattention to these factors prompted the the California State Legislature's Joint Legislative Audit Committee on 27 June 2000 to direct an audit of the fund's international portfolio.

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But investors in the NIR fund have not received an external 2008 annual audit, court documents say.

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According to Audit Scotland, 40% of the pay-off fund was shared by just 1, 200 high earners in the sector, including government, NHS, police and fire.

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Tarrin is accused of engineering the Finance Ministry's takeover of Krung Thai Bank from the Financial Institutions Development Fund in the wake of last year's leak of a PricewaterhouseCoopers audit report that exposed allegedly poor lending practices at the bank.

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No Big 4 audit firms or their partners have been named in the insider trading scandal surrounding the now-defunct hedge fund Galleon Management.

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