{"id":7440,"date":"2014-05-21T16:10:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T16:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/05\/21\/ex-deloitte-risk-chief-settles-sec-claim-he-took-casino-markers\/"},"modified":"2014-05-21T16:10:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T16:10:23","slug":"ex-deloitte-risk-chief-settles-sec-claim-he-took-casino-markers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/05\/21\/ex-deloitte-risk-chief-settles-sec-claim-he-took-casino-markers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Deloitte Risk Chief Settles SEC Claim He Took Casino Markers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nA former Deloitte LLP executive will be suspended from practicing as an accountant for two years after settling U.S. regulatory claims that he took thousands of dollars in markers while serving as an adviser on the firm\u2019s audit of a casino gaming corporation.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Securities and Exchange Commission action against James T. Adams was announced by the agency in a statement today outlining settlement of its administative case. Adams, who was Deloitte\u2019s chief risk officer, was accused of drawing markers &#8212; which are used by a casino customer to receive gaming chips drawn against the customer\u2019s line of credit &#8212; from July 2009 until he retired from the firm in May 2010, the SEC said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\u201cThe transactions by which Adams accepted the casino markers were loans from an audit client that are prohibited by the auditor independence rules,\u201d Scott W. Friestad, associate director in the SEC\u2019s enforcement unit, said in the statement. \u201cThrough his extensive use of casino markers, Adams clearly violated the rules and put his own desires ahead of his client\u2019s interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\tAdams concealed his casino markers from Deloitte and lied to another partner when asked if he had markers from audit clients, the SEC said.<\/p>\n<p>\tScott Schreiber, an attorney for Adams at Arnold &amp; Porter LLP in Washington, declined to comment on the settlement.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> TommyC on May 21, 2014, 6:30 pm<\/p>\n<div>I bet the audit turned out ok. \ud83d\ude06<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Deloitte LLP executive will be suspended from practicing as an accountant for two years after settling U.S. regulatory claims that he took thousands of dollars in markers while serving as an adviser on the firm\u2019s audit of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-casino-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}