KPMG

<p></p><div>=</div><div>http://www.propublica.org/article/the-whistleblowers-tale-how-an-accountant-took-on-halliburton</div><div>
</div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1; background: transparent;">This story was co-produced with <a href="http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/whistleblowers-tale-how-accountant-took-halliburton" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Marketplace</a>.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The email that ruined Tony Menendez’s life arrived on a warm and sunny February afternoon in 2006. Menendez is, by nature, precise and logical, but his first instinct was somewhat irrational. He got up to close the door to his office, as if that might somehow keep the message from speeding across cyberspace. Then he sat down at his desk to puzzle out what had just happened.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The email was sent by Mark McCollum, Halliburton’s chief accounting officer, and a top-ranking executive at Halliburton, where Menendez worked. It was addressed to much of the accounting department. “The SEC has opened an inquiry into the allegations of Mr. Menendez,” it read. Everyone was to retain their documents until further notice.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">P<span style="line-height: 1.4;">anic gripped Menendez. How could McCollum have learned he had been talking to the SEC? The substance of the email was true. After months of raising concerns inside the company, Menendez had filed a complaint with regulators and Halliburton’s audit committee that accused the giant oil services company of violating accounting rules. But those complaints were supposed to be kept strictly confidential. Did the agency violate that trust? Did a board member? Somebody had talked.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ten minutes passed, maybe fifteen. Menendez finally could move. He got up, opened his office door carefully and looked out. The floor normally bustled at that hour in the mid-afternoon. It had cleared out. He turned around quickly, grabbed his computer and rushed out of the heavily secured Halliburton complex north of Sugarland, Texas.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Menendez drove around for hours. He doesn’t remember much about where he went or for how long. At some point, he called his wife.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Ondy,” he cried out to her, frantic. “They outed me!”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As shocked as Menendez was, his wife had seen something like this coming. Tony was a perennial optimist, even naïve. He always thought the company would do the right thing and fix its accounting problem. More jaded, his wife was prepared for the worst. She’d even urged Tony to start secretly taping his bosses.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Is anyone following you?” she asked. “Make sure.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Menendez looked around, seeing only a blur of cars pass at the beginnings of evening rush hour. He didn’t think anyone was tailing him. Then again, how would he know? He needed a lawyer – right now. Only months into the best job he’d ever had, he was in the most trouble of his professional career.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Menendez quickly googled “whistleblower” and “lawyer” on his phone and came up with Philip Hilder, the attorney who had represented the Enron whistleblower, Sherron Watkins. He placed the call and got through. Hilder heard Menendez out and then told him to listen carefully. Hilder instructed Menendez not to tell anyone, not even his wife. Too late for that, and he wouldn’t have kept it from Ondy anyway. They were partners.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Ok. Then don’t talk on the phone anymore. Don’t talk in your office. Don’t talk in your house,” Hilder continued.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“How quickly can you come in to see me?”</p><hr style="width: 207.890625px; height: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 1.75em auto; text-align: center; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I met Tony and Ondy Menendez this past winter, in a suburb less than an hour outside Detroit. Now 44, Menendez speaks earnestly and insistently, with the carefully chosen words one would expect from an accountant. His cheeks carry a tinge of pink and, at the slightest smile, his eyes are consumed by crow’s feet. He hid a bulky frame with a corduroy jacket over a black V-neck sweater.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">They told me about their long and agonizing fight against a powerful corporation. It’s a story of what it takes to be a whistleblower in America – and what it takes out of you.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Many whistleblowers come undone after they launch their fights. They have trouble keeping their jobs, their marriages, their sobriety. Even friends who are sympathetic often see them as pains in the ass. They are forever marked by a scarlet “W.” And while whistleblowers naturally start off more skeptical than the average, the experience pushes some into often justifiable paranoia. If you want to know why whistleblowers can seem a little crazy, it’s because anybody who is not a little bit crazy would back away from the ordeal of confronting a corporate behemoth or grinding government bureaucracy.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">There’s nothing crazy about Menendez, however, beyond an optimism that persists even when the facts don’t warrant it. Throughout the whole struggle, he just knew that somehow, sometime, the world would come around to seeing he was right about Halliburton.</p><hr style="width: 207.890625px; height: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 1.75em auto; text-align: center; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Menendez grew up in Houston, the son of a jovial construction worker with an eighth-grade education. His father had once operated several chicken restaurants and there was a story about almost getting Bob Hope to be a partner, but it never happened. His father had lost it all.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">His mother was an insatiably curious, perpetual graduate student in education. The eighth of 11 kids, Menendez was the only college graduate. Ondy, who grew up in Claude, a small town in North Texas, also was the only one in her family to graduate college. Serious and cautious, she has sedate brown hair that goes just below her chin with fine streaks of gray and wears red lipstick. Only faint hints remain of the 16-year-old girl who drove her Trans Am too fast down North Texas country roads.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">At the University of Houston, Menendez dreamed of a career as a scientist but those plans were derailed when his girlfriend became pregnant. He switched to accounting because he could get a job more easily, married his girlfriend and had a daughter. Eager to establish himself in a solid profession, Menendez took a job at Ernst & Young as an auditor, a job that required a great deal of travel. One day, Menendez was on a business trip a hundred miles from Houston, where they were living. He called home and, unusually, there was no answer. He returned home to discover that his wife had left and when he finally spoke to her a few weeks later, she told him she couldn’t be a mother right then. His daughter was only about a year and a half old. Menendez raised her by himself for the next year and a half. Eventually, his wife returned and they divorced.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Menendez worked various accounting jobs before landing an executive position at Halliburton in March 2005. The job came with a fancy title, Director of Technical Accounting Research and Training, and was the most responsibility he’d ever had. Only months earlier, Halliburton had settled with the SEC after a two-year accounting probe. In hiring him, Mark McCollum told Menendez that he should be his “Smokey the Bear,” helping Halliburton prevent accounting fires from flaring. Menendez was 34, and now remarried to Ondy. They had two young children. He felt his life was on course.....</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">There had been a crackdown on this kind of accounting since a<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=am_McfuM6i4o" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">2003 SEC accounting bulletin</a>. Other oil and gas services companies were falling into line. With that in mind, Menendez recommended the company wait until the work was completed to book the equipment sales as revenue.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.4; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Top Halliburton accounting executives agreed with Menendez’s analysis, including McCollum, the company’s chief accounting officer. But according to Menendez, they dragged their feet on implementing a change that was certain to slow revenue growth. (In an email response to detailed questions, a Halliburton spokeswoman wrote, “The accounting allegations were made by Mr. Menendez almost nine years ago and were promptly reviewed by the company and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company’s accounting was appropriate and the SEC closed its investigation. We have no further comment on the matter.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">” The corporation’s auditor, KPMG, declined to comment for this story.)</span></p></div><div></div><p>

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padding: 0.375em 1em; vertical-align: middle; line-height: 1.1; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);">Mr. William Cobb</td><td style=" box-sizing: border-box; transition: background-color 0.25s linear, border-color 0.25s linear, box-shadow 0.25s linear, color 0.25s linear, opacity 0.25s linear, text-shadow 0.25s linear, transform 0.25s linear; -webkit-transition: background-color 0.25s linear, border-color 0.25s linear, box-shadow 0.25s linear, color 0.25s linear, opacity 0.25s linear, text-shadow 0.25s linear, transform 0.25s linear; padding: 0.375em 1em; vertical-align: middle; line-height: 1.1; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);">Vice President, Environmental Services & Sustainable Development</td><td style=" box-sizing: border-box; transition: background-color 0.25s linear, border-color 0.25s linear, box-shadow 0.25s linear, color 0.25s linear, opacity 0.25s linear, text-shadow 0.25s linear, transform 0.25s linear; -webkit-transition: background-color 0.25s linear, border-color 0.25s linear, box-shadow 0.25s linear, color 0.25s linear, opacity 0.25s linear, text-shadow 0.25s linear, transform 0.25s linear; padding: 0.375em 1em; vertical-align: middle; line-height: 1.1; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Freeport-McMoRan</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Copper & Gold Inc.</td><td style=" box-sizing: border-box; transition: background-color 0.25s linear, border-color 0.25s linear, box-shadow 0.25s linear, color 0.25s linear, opacity 0.25s linear, text-shadow 0.25s linear, transform 0.25s linear; -webkit-transition: background-color 0.25s linear, border-color 0.25s linear, box-shadow 0.25s linear, color 0.25s linear, opacity 0.25s linear, text-shadow 0.25s linear, transform 0.25s linear; padding: 0.375em 1em; vertical-align: middle; line-height: 1.1; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);">Phoenix</td><td style=" box-sizing: border-box; transition: background-color 0.25s linear, border-color 0.25s linear, box-shadow 0.25s linear, color 0.25s linear, opacity 0.25s linear, text-shadow 0.25s linear, transform 0.25s linear; -webkit-transition: background-color 0.25s linear, border-color 0.25s linear, box-shadow 0.25s linear, color 0.25s linear, opacity 0.25s linear, text-shadow 0.25s linear, transform 0.25s linear; padding: 0.375em 1em; vertical-align: middle; line-height: 1.1; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);">AZ</td></tr><tr style=" box-sizing: border-box; transition: background-color 0.25s linear, border-color 0.25s linear, box-shadow 0.25s linear, color 0.25s linear, opacity 0.25s linear, text-shadow 0.25s linear, transform 0.25s linear; -webkit-transition: background-color 0.25s linear, border-color 0.25s linear, box-shadow 0.25s linear, color 0.25s linear, opacity 0.25s linear, text-shadow 0.25s linear, transform 0.25s linear;"><td style=" box-sizing: border-box; transition: background-color 0.25s linear, border-color 0.25s linear, box-shadow 0.25s linear, color 0.25s linear, opacity 0.25s linear, text-shadow 0.25s linear, transform 0.25s linear; -webkit-transition: background-color 0.25s linear, border-color 0.25s linear, box-shadow 0.25s linear, color 0.25s linear, opacity 0.25s linear, text-shadow 0.25s linear, transform 0.25s linear; padding: 0.375em 1em; vertical-align: middle; line-height: 1.1; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);">Mr. Edwin William Crooks</td><td style=" box-sizing: border-box; transition: background-color 0.25s linear, border-color 0.25s linear, box-shadow 0.25s linear, color 0.25s linear, opacity 0.25s linear, text-shadow 0.25s linear, transform 0.25s linear; -webkit-transition: background-color 0.25s linear, border-color 0.25s linear, box-shadow 0.25s linear, color 0.25s linear, opacity 0.25s linear, text-shadow 0.25s linear, transform 0.25s linear; padding: 0.375em 1em; vertical-align: middle; line-height: 1.1; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);">Managing Director</td><td style=" box-sizing: border-box; transition: background-color 0.25s linear, border-color 0.25s linear, box-shadow 0.25s linear, color 0.25s linear, opacity 0.25s linear, text-shadow 0.25s linear, transform 0.25s linear; -webkit-transition: background-color 0.25s linear, border-color 0.25s linear, box-shadow 0.25s linear, color 0.25s linear, opacity 0.25s linear, text-shadow 0.25s linear, transform 0.25s linear; 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<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=KPMG">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=KPMG</a></p>

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<b>KPMG</b> is a global network of accounting firms headquartered in The Netherlands and operating in 148 countries. It is the smallest of the Big Four accounting firms, the others being <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Deloitte_Touche_Tohmatsu" title="Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu">Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ernst_%26_Young" title="Ernst & Young">Ernst & Young</a>, and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/PricewaterhouseCoopers" title="PricewaterhouseCoopers">PricewaterhouseCoopers</a>. KPMG provides audit, tax, and advisory services. <sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=KPMG#cite_note-0">[1]</a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=KPMG#cite_note-1">[2]</a></sup></p>

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<li>Former CEO, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jon_C._Madonna" title="Jon C. Madonna">Jon C. Madonna</a></li>

<li>Former International Chief Executive, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_Wareing" title="Michael Wareing">Michael Wareing</a></li>

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<h2>Contents</h2>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=KPMG#History"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">History</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=KPMG#Political_contributions"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Political contributions</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=KPMG#Lobbying"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Lobbying</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=KPMG#Personnel"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Personnel</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=KPMG#Contact_details"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Contact details</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=KPMG#References"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span></h2>

<p>KPMG was formed in 1987 when Peat Marwick International (PMI) merged with Klynveld Main Goerdeler (KMG). <sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=KPMG#cite_note-2">[3]</a></sup></p>

<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Political_contributions">Political contributions</span></h2>

<p>KPMG gave $960,929 to federal candidates in the 2006 U.S. election through its <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Political_action_committee" title="Political action committee">political action committee</a> - 28% to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Democrats" title="Democrats" class="mw-redirect">Democrats</a> and 71% to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_Party_%28USA%29" title="Republican Party (USA)">Republicans</a>. <sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=KPMG#cite_note-3">[4]</a></sup></p>

<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Lobbying">Lobbying</span></h2>

<p>The company spent $1,690,000 for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lobbying" title="Lobbying">lobbying</a> in 2006 in the U.S. In-house lobbyists along with outside <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lobbying_firms" title="Lobbying firms">lobbying firms</a> were used, including <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Public_Strategies" title="Public Strategies" class="mw-redirect">Public Strategies</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mayer,Brown,Rowe%26_Maw" title="Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw">Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw</a>, and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clark%26_Weinstock" title="Clark & Weinstock">Clark & Weinstock</a>. <sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=KPMG#cite_note-4">[5]</a></sup></p>

<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Personnel">Personnel</span></h2>

Global Leaders:</p>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_Rake" title="Michael Rake">Michael Rake</a>, Chairman, KPMG International</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_P._Wareing&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michael P. Wareing (page does not exist)">Michael P. Wareing</a>, CEO, KPMG International</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Timothy_P._Flynn" title="Timothy P. Flynn">Timothy P. Flynn</a>, Chairman, KPMG's Americas region</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ben_van_der_Veer" title="Ben van der Veer">Ben van der Veer</a>, Chairman, KPMG's Europe, Middle East and Africa region</li>

</ul>

<p>Other Board Members:</p>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hubert_Achermann&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hubert Achermann (page does not exist)">Hubert Achermann</a>, Switzerland</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Bunce&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David Bunce (page does not exist)">David Bunce</a>, Brazil</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jean-Luc_Decornoy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jean-Luc Decornoy (page does not exist)">Jean-Luc Decornoy</a>, France</li>

</ul>

<p>Consultants</p>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_Gilding" title="Paul Gilding">Paul Gilding</a>, Special Advisor, 2009</li>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Contact_details">Contact details</span></h2>

<p>Burgemeester Rijnderslaan 10-20

1185 MC Amstelveen

The Netherlands

Phone: +31-20-656-7890

Fax: +31-20-656-7700

Web: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.kpmg.com">http://www.kpmg.com</a></p>

<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span></h2>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=KPMG#cite_ref-0">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hoovers.com/kpmg/--ID__40270--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml">KPMG Profile</a>, <i>Hoovers</i>, accessed August 2007.</span></li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=KPMG#cite_ref-1">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kpmg.com/About">About page</a>, KPMG, accessed August 2007.</span></li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=KPMG#cite_ref-2">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kpmg.com/About/Who/History/">History</a>, KPMG, accessed August 2007.</span></li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=KPMG#cite_ref-3">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.asp?strID=C00280222">2006 PAC Summary Data</a>, <i>Open Secrets</i>, accessed August 2007.</span></li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=KPMG#cite_ref-4">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobbyists/clientsum.asp?year=2006&txtname=KPMG+LLP">KPMG lobbying expenses</a>, <i>Open Secrets</i>.</span></li>

<li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=KPMG#cite_ref-5">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kpmg.com/About/Who/Leaders/Leaders.htm">KPMG Leaders</a>, KPMG, accessed August 2007.</span></li>

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Rival “Big Four” accounting firm KPMG KPMG.UL has also been under scrutiny for tax shelters. In 2005, KPMG agreed to pay $456 million, accept an outside monitor and admit to wrongdoing to resolve a federal investigation into questionable tax shelters it sold to wealthy individuals.</p>

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Sixteen of the<b> KPMG’s </b>former employees are due to face trial over the shelters in September.

(Additional reporting by Martha Graybow)

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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Criticisms">Criticisms</span></h2>

<p>In 2003, KPMG agreed to pay $125 million to settle a lawsuit stemming from the firm's audits of the drug chain <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rite_Aid" title="Rite Aid">Rite Aid</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPMG#cite_note-48"><span>[</span>49<span>]</span></a></sup></p>

<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Lernout_.26_Hauspie">Lernout & Hauspie</span></h3>

<p>In 2004, KPMG agreed to pay $115 million to settle lawsuits stemming from the collapse of software company <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernout_%26_Hauspie" title="Lernout & Hauspie">Lernout & Hauspie</a> Speech Products NV.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPMG#cite_note-49"><span>[</span>50<span>]</span></a></sup></p>

<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Tax_shelter_fraud">Tax shelter fraud</span></h3>

<div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPMG_tax_shelter_fraud" title="KPMG tax shelter fraud">KPMG tax shelter fraud</a></div>

<p>In early 2005, the United States member firm, KPMG LLP, was accused by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice">United States Department of Justice</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPMG_tax_shelter_fraud" title="KPMG tax shelter fraud">fraud in marketing abusive tax shelters</a>. KPMG LLP admitted criminal wrongdoing in creating fraudulent tax shelters to help wealthy clients avoid $2.5 billion in taxes and agreed to pay $456 million in penalties in exchange for a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_prosecution_agreement" title="Deferred prosecution agreement" class="mw-redirect">deferred prosecution agreement</a>. KPMG LLP would not face criminal prosecution if it complied with the terms of its agreement with the government. On January 3, 2007, the criminal conspiracy charges against KPMG were dropped.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPMG#cite_note-50"><span>[</span>51<span>]</span></a></sup>

Before the settlement, the firm, on the advice of its counsel Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, removed several tax partners and admitted "unlawful conduct" by those partners. The firm agreed to cooperate with the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation and help prosecute former partners who had devised and sold the tax shelters. Additionally, the firm hired former U.S. district judge <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven_Erik_Holmes" title="Sven Erik Holmes">Sven Erik Holmes</a> to monitor its legal and regulatory affairs.</p>

<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Siemens">Siemens</span></h3>

<p>In February 2007, KPMG Germany was investigated for ignoring questionable payments in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens" title="Siemens">Siemens</a> bribery case.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPMG#cite_note-51"><span>[</span>52<span>]</span></a></sup> In November 2008, the Siemens Supervisory Board recommended changing auditors from KPMG to Ernst & Young.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPMG#cite_note-52"><span>[</span>53<span>]</span></a></sup></p>

<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Others">Others</span></h3>

<p>In 2006, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Mae" title="Fannie Mae">Fannie Mae</a> sued KPMG for malpractice for approving years of erroneous financial statements.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPMG#cite_note-53"><span>[</span>54<span>]</span></a></sup>

In March 2008 KPMG was accused of enabling “improper and imprudent practices” at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Century_Financial" title="New Century Financial" class="mw-redirect">New Century Financial</a>, a failed mortgage company<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPMG#cite_note-54"><span>[</span>55<span>]</span></a></sup> and KPMG agreed to pay $80 million to settle suits from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox" title="Xerox">Xerox</a> shareholders over manipulated earnings reports.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPMG#cite_note-55"><span>[</span>56<span>]</span></a></sup>

In August 2010 it was reported by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority to the Swedish accountancy regulator after HQ Bank was forced into involuntary liquidation after the Financial Supervisory Authority revoked all its licences for breach of banking regulations.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPMG#cite_note-56"><span>[</span>57<span>]</span></a></sup>

According to an independent panel formed to investigate irregular payments made by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_Corporation" title="Olympus Corporation">Olympus</a> which reported in December 2011, KPMG's affiliate in Japan failed in its duty to uncover fraud.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPMG#cite_note-57"><span>[</span>58<span>]</span></a></sup></p>

<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Sponsorship">Sponsorship</span></h2>

<p>The Swedish member firm was main sponsor for Swedish <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biathlon" title="Biathlon">biathlete</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalena_Forsberg" title="Magdalena Forsberg">Magdalena Forsberg</a>, six times world champion and twice olympic medalist. Forsberg was working as a tax consultant at the KPMG <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundsvall" title="Sundsvall">Sundsvall</a> office parallel with her athletic career.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPMG#cite_note-58"><span>[</span>59<span>]</span></a></sup>

In February 2008, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Mickelson" title="Phil Mickelson">Phil Mickelson</a>, ranked one of the best golfers in the world, signed a three-year global sponsorship deal with KPMG. As part of the agreement, Mickelson will wear the KPMG logo on his headwear during all golf related appearances.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPMG#cite_note-59"><span>[</span>60<span>]</span></a></sup>

The Canadian member firm sponsored <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Bilodeau" title="Alexandre Bilodeau">Alexandre Bilodeau</a>, who won the first gold medal for Canada on home-soil in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Vancouver_Olympics" title="2010 Vancouver Olympics" class="mw-redirect">2010 Vancouver Olympics</a>. Alexandre's father is a tax partner in the Montreal office.<sup id="cite_ref-Bilodeau_60-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPMG#cite_note-Bilodeau-60"><span>[</span>61<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GoingConcern_61-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPMG#cite_note-GoingConcern-61"><span>[</span>62<span>]</span></a></sup></p>

<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Notable_former_and_current_employees">Notable former and current employees</span></h2>

<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Business">Business</span></h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Jackson" title="Margaret Jackson">Margaret Jackson</a> - chairwoman of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas" title="Qantas">Qantas</a> (2000–2007)</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syd_Kessler" title="Syd Kessler">Syd Kessler</a> - entrepreneur</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_O%27Leary_%28Ryanair%29" title="Michael O'Leary (Ryanair)" class="mw-redirect">Michael O'Leary</a> - CEO of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryanair" title="Ryanair">Ryanair</a> (1994–present)</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarin_Patel" title="Zarin Patel">Zarin Patel</a> - CFO of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Sharman,_Baron_Sharman" title="Colin Sharman, Baron Sharman">Colin Sharman, Baron Sharman</a> - chairman of Aviva (2006–present)</li>

<li>Sir <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rake" title="Michael Rake">Michael Rake</a> - Chairman of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_Group" title="BT Group">BT</a> (2007–present)</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Flint" title="Douglas Flint">Douglas Flint</a> - Chairman of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC" title="HSBC">HSBC</a> (2010–present)</li>

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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Politics_and_public_service">Politics and public service</span></h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bracks" title="Steve Bracks">Steve Bracks</a> - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_of_Victoria" title="Premier of Victoria">Premier of Victoria</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> (1999–2007)</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvo_de_Boer" title="Yvo de Boer">Yvo de Boer</a> - Executive Secretary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change" title="United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change">United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change</a> (2006–2010)</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Finnell" title="Jerry Finnell">Jerry Finnell</a> - Mayor of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_Mar,_California" title="Del Mar, California">Del Mar, California</a> (2004–present)</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Gibb" title="Nick Gibb">Nick Gibb</a> - Member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Parliament" title="British Parliament" class="mw-redirect">British Parliament</a> (1997–present)</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Harper" title="Mark Harper">Mark Harper</a> - Member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Parliament" title="British Parliament" class="mw-redirect">British Parliament</a> (2005–present)</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Harris,_Baron_Harris_of_Haringey" title="Toby Harris, Baron Harris of Haringey">Toby Harris, Baron Harris of Haringey</a> - member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Assembly" title="London Assembly">London Assembly</a> (2000–04); chairman of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Police_Authority" title="Metropolitan Police Authority">Metropolitan Police Authority</a> (2000–04)</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hirst_%28politician%29" title="Michael Hirst (politician)">Michael Hirst</a> - Member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Parliament" title="British Parliament" class="mw-redirect">British Parliament</a> (1983–87)</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Ho" title="Edmund Ho">Edmund Ho</a> - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Executive_of_Macau" title="Chief Executive of Macau">Chief Executive of Macau</a> (1999–2009)</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbrand_Nawijn" title="Hilbrand Nawijn">Hilbrand Nawijn</a> - Dutch Minister for Integration (2002–2003)</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Glenn_Perry" title="L. Glenn Perry">L. Glenn Perry</a> - Chief Accountant <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Securities_and_Exchange_Commission" title="United States Securities and Exchange Commission" class="mw-redirect">United States Securities and Exchange Commission</a> Enforcement Division (1982–1984)<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPMG#cite_note-62"><span>[</span>63<span>]</span></a></sup></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Rudd" title="Kevin Rudd">Kevin Rudd</a> - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Prime_Minister" title="Australian Prime Minister" class="mw-redirect">Australian Prime Minister</a> (2007–2010)</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Verdonk" title="Rita Verdonk">Rita Verdonk</a> - Dutch Minister for Integration and Immigration (2003–2007)</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmaan_Taseer" title="Salmaan Taseer">Salmaan Taseer</a> - Governor of Punjab Province, Pakistan (2008–2011)</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqui_Smith" title="Jacqui Smith">Jacqui Smith</a> - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Secretary" title="Home Secretary">Home Secretary</a> (2007–10)</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wouter_Bos" title="Wouter Bos">Wouter Bos</a> - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Finance_%28Netherlands%29" title="Ministry of Finance (Netherlands)">Dutch Minister of Finance</a> (2007–10)</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carew" title="David Carew">David Carew</a> - Minister of Trade and Industry, Sierra Leone (2009–present)</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Bradley" title="Karen Bradley">Karen Bradley</a> - British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament (2010–present)</li>

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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Other">Other</span></h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Ferrar" title="Leslie Ferrar">Leslie Ferrar</a> - Treasurer to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles,_Prince_of_Wales" title="Charles, Prince of Wales">Charles, Prince of Wales</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amr_Khaled" title="Amr Khaled">Amr Khaled</a> - Popular moderate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim" title="Muslim">Muslim</a> preacher</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Marshall" title="Bruce Marshall">Bruce Marshall</a> - Writer</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Peat" title="Michael Peat">Michael Peat</a> - Principal Private Secretary to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles,_Prince_of_Wales" title="Charles, Prince of Wales">Charles, Prince of Wales</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Silver" title="Nate Silver">Nate Silver</a> - Statistician/journalist, creator of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PECOTA" title="PECOTA">PECOTA</a> baseball projection system and the political blog <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FiveThirtyEight" title="FiveThirtyEight">FiveThirtyEight</a>; named one of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Magazine" title="Time Magazine" class="mw-redirect">Time Magazine</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_100" title="Time 100">"100 Most Influential People"</a> in 2009.</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tisdale" title="Paul Tisdale">Paul Tisdale</a> - Former football player</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_van_der_Walt" title="Johan van der Walt" class="mw-redirect">Johan van der Walt</a> - Forensic auditor</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kateryna_Yushchenko-Chumachenko" title="Kateryna Yushchenko-Chumachenko" class="mw-redirect">Kateryna Yushchenko-Chumachenko</a> - wife of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yushchenko" title="Viktor Yushchenko">Viktor Yushchenko</a>, former President of Ukraine</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Avishai" title="Bernard Avishai">Bernard Avishai</a> - Writer</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lieberstein" title="Paul Lieberstein">Paul Lieberstein</a> - Screenwriter/Actor, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office_%28US%29" title="The Office (US)" class="mw-redirect">The Office (US)</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibby_Haynes" title="Gibby Haynes">Gibby Haynes</a> - Lead singer, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butthole_Surfers" title="Butthole Surfers">Butthole Surfers</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Hearn" title="Barry Hearn">Barry Hearn</a> - Sports entrepreneur</li>

<li>Sir <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tweedie" title="David Tweedie">David Tweedie</a> - Chairman of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Accounting_Standards_Board" title="International Accounting Standards Board">International Accounting Standards Board</a></li>

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