Stam W. Stathis is FICPA's new president - Tallahassee Democrat (blog)

Tallahassee accountant Stam W. Stathis will serve as the 2011-12 president of the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the organization has announced.

Stathis, a Florida-licensed certified public accountant and partner at James F. Thielen, CPA in Tallahassee, has more than 25 years of public accounting experience. He recently moved to the capital from Manatee County, where he served as a director of management and technology consulting service for CPA Associates.

?The FICPA is proud to welcome Stam as our president,? said Glenn Thomas, the FICPA?s chief operating officer and interim CEO. ?Stam?s extensive experience and service with the FICPA will allow us to confidently and skillfully address the challenges and future direction of the Institute.?

Stathis has a long history of serving in professional and civic organizations. He is a graduate of Leadership Manatee, and has served as president, secretary and treasurer of the Gulf Coast Chapter of the FICPA.

He was honored by the FICPA with the Presidential Services Award in recognition of outstanding services as a regional vice president (2000-01); Executive Committee Award of Excellence for outstanding performance as chair of the E-Commerce Section (2001-02); Special Presidential Award for outstanding work and extraordinary service as chair of the Peer Review Task Force (2006-07); and most recently the Special Presidential Award for dedication, diligence and outstanding service as chair of the Governance Task Force (2007-08).

?Being president of the FICPA is a tremendous honor,? Stathis said. ?We have many challenges ahead of us, and by bringing my practice closer to the Tallahassee area, I plan to meet these challenges boldly and with much dedication to success.?

Stathis is a graduate of the University of Florida and a member of the American Institute of CPAs.

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Berlin accountant defaults in civil case, judge rules - Delmarva Now

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Blocked court funds Gilgit-Baltistan chief accountant in contempt case - The Express Tribune

Pasha ordered release of court?s money, later told the bank to withhold the same.

GILGIT:�

Gilgit-Baltistan?s Supreme Appellate Court has served a contempt of court notice to the region?s head of the accountant-general of Pakistan for revenue (AGPR) office.

Abdul Hameed Pasha had been summoned in person in a suo motu case but instead a representative appeared before the court.

The court, headed by Justice Muhammad Nawaz Abbasi, had taken suo motu action against the AGPR a day earlier which was clubbed with a petition filed by a citizen Liaquat Alam pleading that Pasha had refused to approve his cheque worth Rs2.2 million, court officials said. In response, the court had summoned Pasha to explain his reasons.

Earlier, the court had asked Pasha to explain why the office hadn?t passed the court?s four-million-rupee bill and ordered that the bill be cleared immediately. The office complied and released the bill but later in the day, Pasha wrote to National Bank of Pakistan?s Gilgit office requesting them not to release the money.

Upon this, the court summoned the accountant-general in person but a representative appeared instead, forcing it to issue a contempt of court notice against Pasha. He has also been asked to submit a written reply by July 4 as to why he wrote a letter to the bank.

Suspending the accountant-general?s letter, the court ruled that the AGPR?s conduct was tantamount to contempt of court and interference in court matters.

Meanwhile, AGPR staff in various districts observed a strike on Saturday against the court?s decision.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 26^th, 2011.

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Jeffersonville accountant accused of stealing from client - Courier-Journal

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Forensic accountant will review archdiocese finances

[unable to retrieve full-text content]MILWAUKEE A forensic accountant will be hired to review the finances of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee as part of its federal bankruptcy court filing.

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Can IRS Force Your Accountant To Talk? - Forbes (blog)

By ROBERT W. WOOD

With all the talk of undisclosed foreign bank accounts and coming clean to the IRS, there?s renewed buzz about an age-old topic: what tax information can the IRS get?� Under the U.S. Constitution, you can?t be made to testify against yourself.� You can assert your Fifth Amendment rights and decline to answer IRS questions, even in front of a judge.�

But documents are a different story.��If you have documents?such as foreign bank account records?the IRS can obtain them with a summons, subpoena or search warrant.� That may make you wonder if you aren?t better off with sensitive information in the hands of your lawyer.� That?s especially true if you?ve considered a quiet disclosure.�

Thanks to attorney-client privilege, if you confess to a lawyer you?re hiding income or assets offshore the IRS can?t make the lawyer talk.� The IRS can?t even make your lawyer produce your documents with a summons or subpoena. See Latest Foreign Account Prosecution Fuels Fears.� Such are the basics of the attorney client-privilege.�

That should impact how you handle your case.� If you ask your lawyer to obtain your foreign bank records, your lawyer can?t be forced to hand them over to the IRS.� In contrast, if you obtain your own foreign bank records, they?re fair game.� �

Accountants, however, don?t have this privilege.� If you make statements or provide documents to your accountant, he can be compelled to divulge it no matter how incriminating it is. �The accounting profession lobbied for its own privilege in the 1990s, and a�statutory ?tax preparation? privilege was added in 1998 (IRC��Section�7525(a)(1)).� However,�it is inapplicable to criminal tax cases so is of little value.

In sensitive tax matters, the answer to this quandary for the last 50 years has been the Kovel letter.� Named after United States v. Kovel, it works like this: Your tax lawyer hires an accountant to work for him on your case.� In effect, the accountant is doing your tax accounting and return preparation, but reporting as a subcontractor to your lawyer.

Properly executed, this end-run imports attorney client privilege to the accountant?s work and communications.� However, recent IRS lawsuits are eroding this well-established principle.�

In United States v. Richey, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to protect an appraisal that a taxpayer, lawyer and accountant were trying to keep out of IRS hands.� In United States v. Hatfield, a federal court in New York also cut back on Kovel, forcing disclosure of discussions between the lawyer and accountant.

Kovel is still good law and the practice remains widespread.� But additional precautions, such as more rigid direction from the lawyer to the accountant and segregation of accounting and legal files, are good ideas.

For more, see:

Tax Amnesty: IRS�Voluntary�Disclosure�Part Deux

Why Your CPA Might Blab

How Do you Opt Out Of IRS Voluntary Disclosure?

IRS Updates�Voluntary�Disclosure�Amnesty: What You Should Know�

IRS�Voluntary�Disclosure�A Mistake For Some�

Robert W. Wood practices law with Wood & Porter, in San Francisco.� The author of more than 30 books, including Taxation of Damage Awards & Settlement Payments (4th Ed. 2009, Tax Institute), he can be reached at wood@woodporter.com.� This discussion is not intended as legal advice, and cannot be relied�upon for any purpose without the services of a qualified professional.

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Jeffersonville accountant accused of stealing from client - Courier-Journal

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Bribery, but Nobody Was Charged - New York Times

In late June 2004, a plant manager for one of Tyson Foods? poultry processing plants in Mexico sent a memo to company headquarters in Springdale, Ark.: two women who ?most definitely do not work for Tyson Foods in Mexico? each were paid 30,700 pesos, or about $2,700, a month and had been for years. Tyson is one of the world?s largest producers of poultry, pork and beef products, a ubiquitous presence in American supermarkets that has been trying to increase foreign sales. The memo set off an ethics scandal that reached into Tyson?s executive suite and raises questions about who, if anyone, is being held accountable for high-level corporate crime.

The women happened to be the wives of two veterinarians stationed at the plants as part of Mexico?s effort to meet high sanitary and processing standards. The veterinarians certified products as suitable for export, a step required by countries like Japan and increasingly sought after by Mexican consumers as an assurance of quality and safety for locally produced processed meats.

A few days later, senior Tyson executives convened a meeting at headquarters. Someone pointed out the obvious. The purpose of the payments was ?to keep the veterinarians from making problems,? according to a subsequent memo ? in short, bribes. Participants at this meeting ? who included the president of Tyson International, the vice president for operations, and the vice president for internal audit ? evidently agreed the payments to the wives had to stop. A company lawyer said he was seeking advice on ?possible exposure? from the payments, evidently referring to potential liability for maintaining fraudulent records and bribing foreign officials, which are felonies under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

And then, having identified the serious ethical and legal lapses, and the need to stop the bogus payments, this group of executives ?were tasked with investigating how to shift the payroll payments to the veterinarians? wives directly to the veterinarians,? according to a subsequent statement of facts negotiated by Tyson?s lawyers and the Department of Justice.

Written in the passive voice typical of such documents, the statement raises the question of who ?tasked? such an undertaking.

A subsequent memo written by Tyson?s audit department concluded that the ?doctors will submit one invoice which will include the special payments formally [sic] being made to their spouses along with there [sic] normal consulting services fee.? The invoices would be identified as ?professional honoraria.?

What were these Tyson officials thinking? It?s hard to see how simply shifting the payments did anything to mitigate the bribery scheme or the false descriptions of the payments. If anything, it seems even more brazen. There?s no indication anyone gave serious consideration to stopping the payments ? only to finding a new way to make them. The president of Tyson International, the highest-ranking official at the meeting, communicated this ?resolution? to Tyson?s chief administrative officer by e-mail on July 14, further pushing the issue up the chain of command.

The payments continued. When another Mexican plant manager complained to an accountant at headquarters that he was ?uncomfortable? with this, the accountant spoke to the president of international ? who again tried to squelch the issue. ?He agreed that we are O.K. to continue to make these payments against invoices (not through payroll)" until we are able to get [the Mexican inspection program] to change, the accountant informed the plant manager.

The issue of the payments resurfaced in November 2006, and this time, Tyson did what it should have done two years earlier: it retained an outside law firm, Kirkland & Ellis, conducted an internal investigation and, under a government program intended to encourage voluntary disclosure of white-collar crime, turned the results over to the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The government?s investigation ended this February, when Tyson was charged with conspiracy and violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Tyson agreed to resolve the charges with a deferred prosecution agreement in which it ?admits, accepts and acknowledges? the government?s statement of facts, and paid a $4 million criminal penalty. The company paid an additional $1.2 million and settled related S.E.C. charges that it maintained false books and records and lacked the controls to prevent payments to phantom employees and government officials.

But what about those at Tyson responsible for the bribery scheme?

Corporations may have assets and liabilities, but they don?t commit crimes ? their officers, executives and employees do. And the 23-page letter agreement between Tyson and the Department of Justice, the criminal information, and the S.E.C.?s public statement of facts all withheld names, identifying the participants only as ?senior executive,? ?VP International,? ?VP Audit? and so on.

This is James B. Stewart?s first Common Sense column for Business Day, where it will appear on Saturdays. Trained as a lawyer, Mr. Stewart is the author of ?Den of Thieves,? ?Disneywar? and ?Tangled Webs: How False Statements Are Undermining America.? He shared a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 1988.

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'A good challenge': Best accountant Don Jones a numbers man through and through - Craig Daily Press

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Don Jones, owner of Jones & Associates, Inc., was voted best accountant in the Craig Daily Press? 2011 Best of Moffat County contest. A Craig native, Jones said he?s known since high school that he wanted to be an accountant.

Don Jones has known since high school what he wanted to do.

At his recent 20-year high school reunion, he was reminded from his yearbook that he knew he wanted to be a ?successful accountant in the business world.?

Now the owner of Jones & Associates, Inc., public accounting firm is celebrating the success of being voted best accountant in the Craig Daily Press? Best of Moffat County contest.

?It?s an honor,? Jones said of the accomplishment. ?It shows me that my clients respect what I?m doing.?

Jones was born and raised in Craig, earned his bachelor?s degree in business from Fort Lewis College in Durango and returned to Craig to begin his accounting career under CPA Greg Hamilton.

Jones later worked with Denise Arola of Arola & Associates, buying the company in 2009 and re-naming it Jones & Associates.

Jones has been married to his wife, Misty, for nearly 16 years, and the couple has two daughters, Ellina, 8, and Alexis, who turns 6 this week. He enjoys fishing, camping and golf in his spare time.

But many times, time is not something Jones has an abundance of. With about 450 business and personal returns to process each year in his office, Jones said weeks during tax season can reach 90 hours.

And other parts of the year he and his staff ? two full-time employees and one seasonal worker ? are busy completing extensions and businesses? bookkeeping.

?It?s year-round,? Jones said. ?It?s not four months a year like everybody thinks.?

No matter the long hours, Jones said accounting continues to hold his interest.

?I have to do the same job for every person. I have to get to a bottom line,? Jones said. ?But how I get to that bottom line is different for everyone.

?I love a good challenge.?

When it comes to customer service, Jones said his long family history in the community ? his great-grandmother homesteaded east of Craig in 1918 ? helps him understand the cultural and economic factors that affect residents.

?That helps me ? knowing the community,? Jones said. ?I think that helps our business so I can communicate with our clients.?

As Moffat County?s best accountant looks toward his future, he doesn?t see anything changing the good thing he?s got going.

?I can?t see myself doing anything else,? Jones said.

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Accountant to review Milwaukee Archdiocese finances; clergy sex abuse victims get more time - FOX6Now.com Milwaukee

By Associated Press

8:07 p.m. CDT, June 22, 2011

MILWAUKEE (AP) ? A forensic accountant will be hired to review the finances of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee as part of its federal bankruptcy court filing.

Victims of clergy sex abuse also will have more time to file their claims, under an agreement reached Wednesday.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (http://bit.ly/kccXD2) reports the agreement gives the creditors committee the go-ahead to hire California-based Berkeley Research Group as a financial adviser. Among its duties will be to scrutinize church to determine whether the church made fraudulent transfers as a way to shield assets from victims of clergy sex abuse.
The archdiocese had objected, saying it was an unnecessary expense. But church attorneys dropped their opposition after the creditors committee agreed to strictly control costs and submit expenses to the court for review.

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Information from: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, http://www.jsonline.com

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Former federal accountant sentenced for embezzling $1.4 million - Los Angeles Times

A former accountant with the U.S. Forest Service who stole $1.4 million from the agency will serve four years in federal prison and must pay back the money, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles.

Kathy Stamps, 39, of Rancho Cucamonga, an accountant at the Angeles National Forest office in Arcadia, fabricated internal records to receive tax refunds, authorities say.

From 2002 to 2004, Stamps received six checks from the U.S. Treasury totaling $1.4 million.

She spent nearly $1.1 million on personal items ranging from cars and mortgage payments to jewelry and plastic surgery, authorities said.

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Archdiocese fires volunteer accountant at Blessed Sacrament church

The longtime accountant at Blessed Sacrament Parish has been fired from his volunteer position by the Archdiocese of Ottawa.

Herv� Dejordy, chair of the parish finance committee and the church's principal bookkeeper, was informed of the move in a letter he received earlier this month.

In an interview Wednesday, Dejordy said he didn't mind being fired, but was offended by the way it was handled.

"I don't mind the action," Dejordy said. "It's just the fact that they didn't have the guts to talk to me face to face. I got the information through Canada Post ...

"I have been fired a few times, but that was the first time I was fired through Canada Post."

Dejordy, 79, a retired accountant, has served as church bookkeeper for the past 14 years. He said he planned to tender his resignation later this year once the diocese completed its audit of Blessed Sacrament's books.

That audit was launched in March after financial irregularities at Blessed Sacrament came to the attention of diocesan officials.

Auditors have raised questions about some $250,000 of cheques issued from church accounts to Blessed Sacrament's former pastor, Father Joseph LeClair.

Dejordy would not disclose the precise wording of his firing, which came days after the Citizen published a story in which he characterized LeClair as a "one-man band" whose spending faced little or no oversight at the church.

Dejordy revealed that Le-Clair could write cheques to himself from church accounts without a counter-signature and did not have to submit receipts in order to have a cheque approved.

"I wouldn't approve anything: if he writes a cheque, I just record the cheque," Dejordy told the Citizen.

LeClair, who has admitted to a gambling problem, left the parish in late May and later entered an addiction treatment program. His replacement at Blessed Sacrament was named earlier this month.

Msgr. Kevin Beach, vicar general of the Ottawa diocese, characterized Dejordy's dismissal as part of the renewal process at Blessed Sacrament.

"I think it's a question of having a renewal so that everybody has a sense of confidence in what's going on there," Beach said.

Asked if Dejordy was fired for speaking to the Citizen, Beach said: "Obviously, some of the parishioners have been wondering why he was speaking to the Citizen. But that would have been very much a secondary reason.

"The primary reason is that we needed to restore confidence in the financial and accounting administration for the parish."

Dejordy, who has worked for private sector firms such as Quebecor and Cambior, said that he might have been more "meticulous" in scrutinizing the cheques that LeClair issued himself from church accounts.

"Maybe there are things I should have done that I didn't do," he said.

"You know about the cheques that Father Joe wrote, payable to himself. I should have been more aggressive, maybe, and questioned the expenses."

Asked if he considered himself a scapegoat for the problems at Blessed Sacrament, Dejordy said: "No, I don't feel that way, no."

In April, the Citizen revealed that LeClair received more than $137,000 in cash advances on his credit card at the Casino du Lac-Leamy in 2009 and 2010.

In those years, he racked up personal credit card bills of more than $490,000, much of it through cash advances.

LeClair has repeatedly insisted that he did not use church funds to gamble.

Msgr. Beach could not estimate when the audit of Blessed Sacrament's books will be completed. He said only that the process is "closer to the end."

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Tax Accountants Offer Free Tax-planning Strategies on Facebook - PR Web (press release)

Malibu, CA (PRWEB) June 24, 2011

Facebook has become so mainstream that even tax accountants are now harnessing the power of Facebook and other forms of social media. CPA firms and tax accountants that utilize the ClientWhys Facebook App can now provide tax-cutting strategies directly to followers on Facebook. Custom landing pages welcome visitors to the accountant?s Facebook account and posts to the accountant?s wall inform, entertain, and provide some humor to strategies that will minimize tax bills.

Accountants? businesses are built on referrals from current clients and prospects. ClientWhys helps these professionals to strengthen these relationships by building their social networks to quickly distribute tax-planning tips and breaking news to their Facebook networks. Clients are always looking to their tax advisors for concepts and strategies that give them the tax-savings they really want. Today?s economy makes tax planning more important than ever. Now, clients can engage socially with their most trusted advisors. And, best yet, when clients share the tips with friends, accountants benefit from the viral aspects of social media.

Thousands of CPAs and tax accounting firms utilize ClientWhys for their marketing and Web-based tools. "CPAs are busy serving clients, and don't always grasp how social media for Tax Accountants can help them serve their clients better," stated Lee Reams II, CEO of ClientWhys. "Our Web-based tools help grow their practices without the headaches of technology development and staff management."

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Transportation and Freight Accountant

Transportation and Freight Accountant

Employer:

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Updated: Jun�23�2011

Desired Expertise: Accounting or Finance Experience: 2+ years Minimum Education: Bachelors/3-5 yr Degree Location: Houston, TX Reference Code: 11000003K1
Job Description: Weatherford International Oil Field Services Ltd is one of the largest international oil and natural gas service companies. The company provides a myriad of products and services for drilling, evaluation, completion, production and intervention of oil and natural gas wells, along with pipeline construction and commissioning. Weatherford employs more than 43,000 employees worldwide and operates in more than 100 countries.

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Payables coding, Asset capitalization, Journal entries, SAP and JDE intercompany charges.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Codes invoices to correct business entities.
Formulates journal entries.
Designs and formulates accounting spreadsheets to accommodate multiple accounting entries.
Works with field personnel to resolve accounting issues including intercompany accounting, reversing entries, payables inquiries, etc.
Enlists assistance from support staff for tasks and reviews their work product.
Coordinates with other divisions/departments to ensure proper accounting of transactions.
Works under supervision of the manager.
Assists in the movement of heavy equipment to achieve best utilization rates
Audits and negotiates freight rates on equipment moves
Assists in license and titling, and permitting of heavy equipment when applicable

REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or related field (or equivalent experience) required
2+ years of related experience is required
Computer knowledge of Microsoft and Windows products required
Negotiation skills are required
Ability to code Accounts Payable invoices to proper cost center
Familiarity with an ERP system (SAP, JDE, Oracle) is preferred
Works well in a team environment
Good communication and interpersonal skills
Multi-task oriented
Works well under pressure
Basic familiarity with heavy equipment

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Forensic accountant will review archdiocese finances

[unable to retrieve full-text content]MILWAUKEE A forensic accountant will be hired to review the finances of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee as part of its federal bankruptcy court filing.

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Archdiocese fires volunteer accountant at Blessed Sacrament church

The longtime accountant at Blessed Sacrament Parish has been fired from his volunteer position by the Archdiocese of Ottawa.

Herv� Dejordy, chair of the parish finance committee and the church's principal bookkeeper, was informed of the move in a letter he received earlier this month.

In an interview Wednesday, Dejordy said he didn't mind being fired, but was offended by the way it was handled.

"I don't mind the action," Dejordy said. "It's just the fact that they didn't have the guts to talk to me face to face. I got the information through Canada Post ...

"I have been fired a few times, but that was the first time I was fired through Canada Post."

Dejordy, 79, a retired accountant, has served as church bookkeeper for the past 14 years. He said he planned to tender his resignation later this year once the diocese completed its audit of Blessed Sacrament's books.

That audit was launched in March after financial irregularities at Blessed Sacrament came to the attention of diocesan officials.

Auditors have raised questions about some $250,000 of cheques issued from church accounts to Blessed Sacrament's former pastor, Father Joseph LeClair.

Dejordy would not disclose the precise wording of his firing, which came days after the Citizen published a story in which he characterized LeClair as a "one-man band" whose spending faced little or no oversight at the church.

Dejordy revealed that Le-Clair could write cheques to himself from church accounts without a counter-signature and did not have to submit receipts in order to have a cheque approved.

"I wouldn't approve anything: if he writes a cheque, I just record the cheque," Dejordy told the Citizen.

LeClair, who has admitted to a gambling problem, left the parish in late May and later entered an addiction treatment program. His replacement at Blessed Sacrament was named earlier this month.

Msgr. Kevin Beach, vicar general of the Ottawa diocese, characterized Dejordy's dismissal as part of the renewal process at Blessed Sacrament.

"I think it's a question of having a renewal so that everybody has a sense of confidence in what's going on there," Beach said.

Asked if Dejordy was fired for speaking to the Citizen, Beach said: "Obviously, some of the parishioners have been wondering why he was speaking to the Citizen. But that would have been very much a secondary reason.

"The primary reason is that we needed to restore confidence in the financial and accounting administration for the parish."

Dejordy, who has worked for private sector firms such as Quebecor and Cambior, said that he might have been more "meticulous" in scrutinizing the cheques that LeClair issued himself from church accounts.

"Maybe there are things I should have done that I didn't do," he said.

"You know about the cheques that Father Joe wrote, payable to himself. I should have been more aggressive, maybe, and questioned the expenses."

Asked if he considered himself a scapegoat for the problems at Blessed Sacrament, Dejordy said: "No, I don't feel that way, no."

In April, the Citizen revealed that LeClair received more than $137,000 in cash advances on his credit card at the Casino du Lac-Leamy in 2009 and 2010.

In those years, he racked up personal credit card bills of more than $490,000, much of it through cash advances.

LeClair has repeatedly insisted that he did not use church funds to gamble.

Msgr. Beach could not estimate when the audit of Blessed Sacrament's books will be completed. He said only that the process is "closer to the end."

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Forensic accountant to review Milwaukee Archdiocese finances - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

June 22, 2011 |

A forensic accountant will be hired to review the finances of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee as part of its bankruptcy, and survivors of clergy sex abuse will have more time to file their claims, under an agreement reached Wednesday before U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Susan V. Kelley.

The agreement, hammered out in marathon negotiating sessions that began Friday, gives the creditors committee the go-ahead to hire California-based Berkeley Research Group as a financial adviser. Among its duties will be to scrutinize church finances to determine whether the church made fraudulent transfers as a way to shield assets from victims of clergy sex abuse, as at least one victims attorney has suggested.

The archdiocese had objected, saying it was an unnecessary expense. But church attorneys dropped their opposition Wednesday after the creditors committee agreed to strictly control costs and submit expenses to the court for review.

"We have to be sensitive to the fees, we absolutely do," Kelley said.

Also Wednesday, the parties agreed to extend the bar date, the deadline for victims to file claims for compensation as part of the bankruptcy, to Feb. 1, five months longer than the Sept. 15 date initially proposed by the church. The deadline for other claimants remains unchanged.

They also agreed on the specifics of an extensive, national advertising campaign to alert victims to the bankruptcy and the deadline for seeking claims. As part of the campaign, Archbishop Jerome Listecki will also ask churches and parishes to distribute notices. The creditors' attorneys reserved the right to seek a later bar date if those churches and parishes decline.

As financial adviser, Berkeley is expected to focus on three main areas: the transfer of $55 million into a cemetery trust, and $75 million out of parish funds, and the creation of the Faith in our Future Fund to hold the proceeds of a $105 million capital campaign - all since 2004, said creditors attorney Jim Stang.

The archdiocese has defended those moves, saying the cemetery trust merely formalized what was always viewed as a trust; that the parish funds were returned to their owner-congregations; and that the Faith in Our Future Trust was created as a separate entity outside the control of the archdiocese.

The archdiocese filed for bankruptcy in January, saying it was the only way to compensate victims and continue the work of the church. It has said it has only about $7 million in cash and properties available for settlement; and that the vast majority of church assets, from parishes to trusts, are legally separate and cannot be touched.

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Accountant: McGregor wrote checks to co-defendant - Montgomery Advertiser

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Mimiko appoints Ibukun Accountant-General - Vanguard

GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State has approved the appointment of Mr Lawrence Layiwola Ibukun as the new Accountant-General of the state.

The new Accountant-General has been in the position in acting capacity before the appointment.

The approval of the appointment, contained in a letter by the Head of Service, Mr Ajose Kudehinbu, took effect from Thursday June 6, 2011.

The 52-year-old new Accountant-General, who hails from Ijare in Ifedore Local Government Area of the state, holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the University of Lagos in 1985 and Master of Science in Accounting from the University of Ilorin in 1989.

He joined the Ondo State Civil Service 20 years ago as an Accountant Grade One and had served in various capacities before his new appointment.

A Chartered Accountant and Fellow of the Institute of Cost Management Accountants, Mr Ibukun is also an Associate of the National Accountants of Nigeria, Chartered Institute of Taxation and Fellow of Institute of Public Administration of Nigeria.

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Accountant: McGregor wrote checks to co-defendant - Montgomery Advertiser

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Accountant defaults in civil case, judge rules - Delaware Wave

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Archdiocese fires volunteer accountant at Blessed Sacrament church - Ottawa Citizen

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Archdiocese fires volunteer accountant at Blessed Sacrament church Ottawa Citizen The longtime accountant at Blessed Sacrament Parish has been fired from his volunteer position by the Archdiocese of Ottawa. Herv� Dejordy, chair of the parish finance committee ... and more »

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Can IRS Force Your Accountant To Talk?

By ROBERT W. WOOD

With all the talk of undisclosed foreign bank accounts and coming clean to the IRS, there?s renewed buzz about an age-old topic: what tax information can the IRS get?� Under the U.S. Constitution, you can?t be made to testify against yourself.� You can assert your Fifth Amendment rights and decline to answer IRS questions, even in front of a judge.�

But documents are a different story.��If you have documents?such as foreign bank account records?the IRS can obtain them with a summons, subpoena or search warrant.� That may make you wonder if you aren?t better off with sensitive information in the hands of your lawyer.� That?s especially true if you?ve considered a quiet disclosure.�

Thanks to attorney-client privilege, if you confess to a lawyer you?re hiding income or assets offshore the IRS can?t make the lawyer talk.� The IRS can?t even make your lawyer produce your documents with a summons or subpoena. See Latest Foreign Account Prosecution Fuels Fears.� Such are the basics of the attorney client-privilege.�

That should impact how you handle your case.� If you ask your lawyer to obtain your foreign bank records, your lawyer can?t be forced to hand them over to the IRS.� In contrast, if you obtain your own foreign bank records, they?re fair game.� �

Accountants, however, don?t have this privilege.� If you make statements or provide documents to your accountant, he can be compelled to divulge it no matter how incriminating it is. �The accounting profession lobbied for its own privilege in the 1990s, and a�statutory ?tax preparation? privilege was added in 1998 (IRC��Section�7525(a)(1)).� However,�it is inapplicable to criminal tax cases so is of little value.

In sensitive tax matters, the answer to this quandary for the last 50 years has been the Kovel letter.� Named after United States v. Kovel, it works like this: Your tax lawyer hires an accountant to work for him on your case.� In effect, the accountant is doing your tax accounting and return preparation, but reporting as a subcontractor to your lawyer.

Properly executed, this end-run imports attorney client privilege to the accountant?s work and communications.� However, recent IRS lawsuits are eroding this well-established principle.�

In United States v. Richey, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to protect an appraisal that a taxpayer, lawyer and accountant were trying to keep out of IRS hands.� In United States v. Hatfield, a federal court in New York also cut back on Kovel, forcing disclosure of discussions between the lawyer and accountant.

Kovel is still good law and the practice remains widespread.� But additional precautions, such as more rigid direction from the lawyer to the accountant and segregation of accounting and legal files, are good ideas.

For more, see:

Tax Amnesty: IRS�Voluntary�Disclosure�Part Deux

Why Your CPA Might Blab

How Do you Opt Out Of IRS Voluntary Disclosure?

IRS Updates�Voluntary�Disclosure�Amnesty: What You Should Know�

IRS�Voluntary�Disclosure�A Mistake For Some�

Robert W. Wood practices law with Wood & Porter, in San Francisco.� The author of more than 30 books, including Taxation of Damage Awards & Settlement Payments (4th Ed. 2009, Tax Institute), he can be reached at wood@woodporter.com.� This discussion is not intended as legal advice, and cannot be relied�upon for any purpose without the services of a qualified professional.

Source: http://blogs.forbes.com/robertwood/2011/06/21/can-irs-force-your-accountant-to-talk/

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Former Chartered Accountant Pleads Guilty to GST Fraud - Marketwire (press release)

NEWMARKET, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - June 22, 2011) - The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) announced today that Thomas Silverman of Vaughan pleaded guilty in the Ontario Court of Justice in Newmarket to one count of fraud over $5,000. Silverman, a former Chartered Accountant, committed GST fraud by registering three businesses and filing false GST returns on behalf of the companies, claiming a total of $4.5 million in fraudulent GST refunds. Silverman will be sentenced on September 12, 2011.

A CRA investigation revealed that Silverman registered three businesses for the purposes of claiming fraudulent Input Tax Credits and obtaining GST refunds. None of the businesses set up by Silverman were engaged in legitimate commercial or business activities. Silverman used the personal information of former clients to set up nominee directors for each company, as well as a commercial mailbox to suggest the legitimacy of the businesses. Silverman maintained exclusive control of all of the companies' bank accounts.

Silverman companies filed 116 GST returns between August 2000 and November 2003, claiming $4,538,024 in refunds to which his companies were not entitled. In total, Silverman received $3,800,000 in fraudulent refunds paid out to Silverman Companies and transferred to a personal bank account. The CRA determined that all of the claims were unwarranted and false.

The preceding information was obtained from the court records.

Individuals who have not filed returns for previous years, or who have not reported all of their income, can still voluntarily correct their tax affairs. They will not be penalized or prosecuted if they make a valid disclosure before they become aware of any compliance action being initiated by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) against them. These individuals may only have to pay the taxes owing, plus interest. More information on the Voluntary Disclosures Program (VDP) can be found on the CRA's website at www.cra.gc.ca/voluntarydisclosures.

Further information on convictions can be found in the Media Room on the CRA website at www.cra.gc.ca/convictions.

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County debates new accountant's salary - Post-Star

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* Warren County Board of Supervisors, Finance and Personnel committees, Wednesday.

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* Supervisors discussed amending policies regarding salary increases after a debate over paying a higher salary to a new junior accountant who was hired by the county Treasurer's Office. The new employee will make about $2,000 more than the person being replaced, and Deputy Treasurer Robert Lynch said the new employee is a certified public accountant with higher qualifications. Warrensburg Supervisor Kevin Geraghty, the county's budget officer, said he was "troubled" that the county was giving out pay increases as it faces budget problems.

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* The county reached agreement with the Sheriff's Lieutenant Collective Bargaining Unit on a new two-year labor contract. The union represents three lieutenants with the county Sheriff's Office, who will get 1 to 1.3 percent raises and agreed to concessions on health insurance coverage.

* Supervisors decided to hold off on a request by the county Treasurer's Office to use $6,600 in occupancy tax surplus to create a system to put county tax records online. Other counties, including Washington and Saratoga counties, have this information online already, Treasurer Frank O'Keefe said. O'Keefe suggested occupancy tax money be used because his office administers occupancy tax payments.

* County supervisors will have to redo the process to create a local law that limits funeral protests because the legal notice about the law did not run as required in The Post-Star. The error was on the newspaper's part.

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N.L. church accountant charged in $500K theft - CBC Olympics

Dozens of fraud and forgery-related charges were laid Monday against a former accountant at the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. John's after more than $500,000 was reported missing in January.

Former business manager Bill Power worked with the archdiocese for 38 years.

He has been charged with 35 offences alleged to have happened from 2003 to 2010, including:

• 10 counts of forgery.
• 10 counts of uttering forged documents.
• 8 counts of fraud over $5,000.
• 5 counts of fraud under $5,000.
• 1 count of criminal breach of trust.
• 1 count of unauthorized use of a computer.

The church filed a complaint with the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary's economic crime unit in January, alleging its own internal investigation uncovered the theft of about $500,000.

Archbishop Martin Currie said at the time that the money had gone missing from the church's operating budget and the theft could have been going on since 1997.

"This review uncovered significant discrepancies in the operating account of the archdiocese," the archdiocese said in a news release on Jan. 24.

"We determined that our former comptroller and business manager made unauthorized payments to himself, and to his pension account, throughout this period."

Parishioners informed

Donated money is used to fund chaplaincy services in hospitals such as the Janeway, St. Clare's, the Health Sciences Centre, the Burin Peninsula Health Care Centre and the Miller Centre, and in seniors homes and long-term-care facilities.

Last October, priests read a letter to parishioners at churches in eastern Newfoundland that said a business manager with the organization resigned recently, and an independent auditor had been hired to investigate the churches' finances.

The archdiocese said it hired an auditing company last year to review its books dating back to 2003.

Power, of Outer Cove, near St. John's, resigned from the church last fall. When called by CBC News in January, he would give no comment.

He was released Monday and will be back in court Aug. 2.

The archdiocese ? which covers most of the Avalon and Burin peninsulas ? brought in tougher financial guidelines after the internal audit.

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Accountant 'fleeced' $4.8m from clients - WA today

A Perth accountant who allegedly used his clients personal details to amass millions in fraudulent loans has been charged by police.

Police said the 41-year-old Menora man racked up nearly $4.8 million in funds for fake loans through his accountancy business, allegedly submitting loan applications based on fake invoices.

The man used the business details of his clients without their knowledge, and directed the money to his own company accounts, Sergeant Julie Hansen said.

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By June 2010, the man began defaulting on repayments of 130 separate loans while still utilising the cash for his own purposes.

Following an investigation, police yesterday charged the man with 130 counts of gains benefit by fraud, and he will be appearing in the Perth Magistrates Court tomorrow.

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Can IRS Force Your Accountant To Talk?

By ROBERT W. WOOD

With all the talk of undisclosed foreign bank accounts and coming clean to the IRS, there?s renewed buzz about an age-old topic: what tax information can the IRS get?� Under the U.S. Constitution, you can?t be made to testify against yourself.� You can assert your Fifth Amendment rights and decline to answer IRS questions, even in front of a judge.�

But documents are a different story.��If you have documents?such as foreign bank account records?the IRS can obtain them with a summons, subpoena or search warrant.� That may make you wonder if you aren?t better off with sensitive information in the hands of your lawyer.� That?s especially true if you?ve considered a quiet disclosure.�

Thanks to attorney-client privilege, if you confess to a lawyer you?re hiding income or assets offshore the IRS can?t make the lawyer talk.� The IRS can?t even make your lawyer produce your documents with a summons or subpoena. See Latest Foreign Account Prosecution Fuels Fears.� Such are the basics of the attorney client-privilege.�

That should impact how you handle your case.� If you ask your lawyer to obtain your foreign bank records, your lawyer can?t be forced to hand them over to the IRS.� In contrast, if you obtain your own foreign bank records, they?re fair game.� �

Accountants, however, don?t have this privilege.� If you make statements or provide documents to your accountant, he can be compelled to divulge it no matter how incriminating it is. �The accounting profession lobbied for its own privilege in the 1990s, and a�statutory ?tax preparation? privilege was added in 1998 (IRC��Section�7525(a)(1)).� However,�it is inapplicable to criminal tax cases so is of little value.

In sensitive tax matters, the answer to this quandary for the last 50 years has been the Kovel letter.� Named after United States v. Kovel, it works like this: Your tax lawyer hires an accountant to work for him on your case.� In effect, the accountant is doing your tax accounting and return preparation, but reporting as a subcontractor to your lawyer.

Properly executed, this end-run imports attorney client privilege to the accountant?s work and communications.� However, recent IRS lawsuits are eroding this well-established principle.�

In United States v. Richey, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to protect an appraisal that a taxpayer, lawyer and accountant were trying to keep out of IRS hands.� In United States v. Hatfield, a federal court in New York also cut back on Kovel, forcing disclosure of discussions between the lawyer and accountant.

Kovel is still good law and the practice remains widespread.� But additional precautions, such as more rigid direction from the lawyer to the accountant and segregation of accounting and legal files, are good ideas.

For more, see:

Tax Amnesty: IRS�Voluntary�Disclosure�Part Deux

Why Your CPA Might Blab

How Do you Opt Out Of IRS Voluntary Disclosure?

IRS Updates�Voluntary�Disclosure�Amnesty: What You Should Know�

IRS�Voluntary�Disclosure�A Mistake For Some�

Robert W. Wood practices law with Wood & Porter, in San Francisco.� The author of more than 30 books, including Taxation of Damage Awards & Settlement Payments (4th Ed. 2009, Tax Institute), he can be reached at wood@woodporter.com.� This discussion is not intended as legal advice, and cannot be relied�upon for any purpose without the services of a qualified professional.

Source: http://blogs.forbes.com/robertwood/2011/06/21/can-irs-force-your-accountant-to-talk/

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Finance Analyst, part qualified accountant, Product Entities - 24dash (press release)

Finance Analyst, part qualified accountant, Product Entities

Finance Analyst, Part qualified Accountant, Product Entities, Finance Banking, Wealth Management organisation, London.

A leading Wealth Management organisation requires a Finance Analyst who is a part qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA) and has knowledge of large company finance functions and how they operate, plus a good understanding of accounting principles and core finance processes & a familiarity with SAP and Hyperion as well as good excel skills.

As the Finance Analyst you will be supporting the Product Entities business in end to end financial control, aiming to deliver a world class Financial Control environment. You will drive forward the end to end oversight of operational internal accounts through to SAP. Ensuring ownership of all internal accounts plus embedding robust review & challenge processes within Finance as well as the co-ordination of statutory Reports & Accounts.

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Certified Accountants Earn $27000 More - Accounting Today

A new salary survey by the Institute of Management Accountants has found that Certified Management Accountants and CPAs earn substantially more than those without certification.

Dennis Whitney

The average total compensation in 2010 for those with a certification such as the CMA (Certified Management Accountant), CPA (Certified Public Accountant), or both is $135,695, which is over $27,000 more than those without certification ($108,938).

Respondents in their 40s and 50s (mid-career level professionals) reported increased salaries and compensation of $14,275 over their non-certified counterparts.

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IMA?s Annual Salary Survey explores salary trends of accounting and finance professionals and reveals that certain industries are faring better than others. Public accounting ranked first in terms of average salary, at $125,488, and second in average total compensation, at $153,395, both in 2010 and 2009. The survey was mailed to respondents last December, and the results have just been released this month.

?The CMAs in this year?s study make a little more than the CPAs,? said Dennis Whitney, senior vice president of certification at the Institute of Certified Management Accountants. ?For the younger professionals, it?s a little more per year. The number does seem to go up as you get older, but generally it?s a couple of thousand dollars. But the thing that?s the most dramatic is that people with both the CPA and the CMA fare the best.?
For those with both certifications, the difference can be not only $27,000, but $35,700.

?Dual certification is definitely worthwhile,? said Whitney. ?It broadens your competencies. You have not only the financial accounting and auditing skills, but also the financial planning, analysis, and control skills and decision-making, which are very important today.?

Total compensation fluctuated broadly for management accountants, with six industries (grouped by SIC code) seeing gains of more than $10,000 and five groups seeing it fall from the previous year. The six big winners, in order of increase, are contract construction (+$34,261); finance, insurance, and real estate (+29,856); wholesale and retail trade (+$15,090); mining (+$12,095); public accounting (+$11,593); and nonclassifiable (+$11,046). The five losing groups, in order of decrease, are agriculture, forestry, fisheries (-$48,947); government (-$4,885); manufacturing (-$3,793); transportation, communication, and utilities (-$2,673); and education services (-$1,921).

The survey found that younger professionals benefit from obtaining professional certifications. For both men and women overall, average salary and total compensation increased a little. The number of respondents who received an increase rose sharply but has not yet returned to pre-recession levels.

The economic recovery is noticeably different across industrial sectors, company size, ownership structure, responsibility area, and age. The average salary of members responding to IMA?s 22nd Annual Salary Survey increased $3,415 from $105,850 to $109,265?a 3.1 percent increase. Average total compensation increased $5,129 from $123,357 to $128,486?a 4.2 percent increase. For the third consecutive year, neither increase is statistically significant. This year the percentage increase in average total compensation is greater than the percentage increase in average salary, a reversal of the trend for the previous three years.

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Accountant 'stole $4.8m in fake loans'

A Perth accountant has been charged with 130 counts of fraud. Source: HWT Image Library

A PERTH accountant has been charged with 130 counts of gaining a benefit by fraud after allegedly making false loan applications totalling nearly $5m.

Police said the 41-year-old man from Menora in Perth's inner north ran an accounting business and used a funding company to arrange loans for clients to pay their professional fees and insurance premiums.

They said that in May 2009 the man began submitting loan applications based on fake invoices, using his clients' business details without their knowledge and directing the funds to his own accounts.

By June 2010 the man began defaulting on repayments of the loans, which included 130 separate loan applications, with outstanding loans of almost $4.8 million, police said.

The man was charged on Tuesday with 130 counts of gaining a benefit by fraud and will appear in the Perth Magistrates Court on July 14.

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Former SDN Accountant Accused Of Embezzlement

SIOUX FALLS, SD - Officials with SDN Communications in Sioux Falls say they are the victims of embezzlement, and the person who is at the center of the case is their former chief accountant.�

SDN Communications, the largest fiber-optic network in the region, says former accountant Brad Whitsell has been charged in federal court for employee misconduct that involved a 'significant' amount of money.

The CEO of SDN says officials started noticing 'financial irregularities' connected to Whitsell last year, and he was put on administrative leave so they could conduct a forensic audit and internal investigation. But, Whitsell resigned before the investigation even began.

In a YouTube statement to customers Tuesday�SDN Board President Bryan Roth and CEO Mark Shlanta addressed an embezzlement case involving the former accountant.

"Even though the dollar amount is significant, it allegedly happened over a number of years, so it has not significantly impacted our annual operations," Shlanta said.�

Whitsell made a court appearance Tuesday on federal charges SDN classifies as 'employee financial misconduct.'

"We are limited in what we can say since this is a pending court case, but I want to emphasize this alleged crime is an isolated incident by a single employee. Frankly, this is embarrassing and painful for all of us at SDN," Shlanta said in the YouTube statement.

And the company says it has already made changes to prevent similar incidents from happening again.

"The good news is SDN is a stronger, better company because we've taken measures to prevent any future issues," SDN Communications Board President Bryan Roth said.

They say they've increased checks and balances in their accounting and also set up a fraud hotline for employees for any future anonymous tips.�

"Our employees said honesty is the character trait they most value. All of us at SDN must live up to that, no exceptions. We want to live up to that by being as transparent as possible with you through this pending case," Shlanta said.�

KELOLAND News�left a message for Brad Whitsell at his Sioux Falls home Tuesday night asking for a comment on the federal charges he faces, but he did not return our call.

We hope to have more information on the exact charges he faces by Wednesday.

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Accountant wants Utah to pay $4.6 million in FLDS land-trust debts

Jun. 14, 2011 12:00 AM
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SALT LAKE CITY - The court-appointed accountant for a land trust once run by jailed polygamous leader Warren Jeffs wants Utah taxpayers to pay off $4.6 million in debts incurred for its management.

In court papers, attorneys for Bruce Wisan have asked a 3rd District judge to order state officials to pay the United Effort Plan Trust debts.

"The trust is facing a continuing, ongoing crisis due to a lack of funds to pay the costs of administration," Wisan's attorney, Jeff Shields, wrote in the May 27 court filing.

The Utah Attorney General's Office opposed the request in a response filed Friday with the court.

The money is owed to lawyers, Wisan's own Salt Lake City accounting firm, an engineering and surveying firm, a public-relations firm and others hired for trust-related business.

Wisan alone is owed more than $1 million, and the firm that employs Shields is owed nearly $2.4 million, according to court documents.

In addition, about $2 million in property taxes is owed on trust property in Utah and northern Arizona.

The $4.6 million currently owed is for expenses incurred since those working for the trust were last paid in 2008.

A message left for Shields by the Associated Press was not immediately returned.

Utah took over the communal-land trust in 2005 amid allegations of mismanagement by Jeffs, president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and other church leaders. All were removed as trust managers by the courts when Wisan was appointed.

Source: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/06/14/20110614jeffs0614.html

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