{"id":3624,"date":"2014-03-06T19:02:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T03:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=3624"},"modified":"2014-03-06T19:59:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T03:59:05","slug":"3-ex-leaders-of-major-nyc-law-firm-charged-with-fraud-in-its-2012-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/06\/3-ex-leaders-of-major-nyc-law-firm-charged-with-fraud-in-its-2012-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"3 ex leaders of major NYC law firm charged with fraud in its 2012 collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: medium;\"><span class=\"ArticleTitle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shutterstock_110699009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3634\" alt=\"shutterstock_110699009\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shutterstock_110699009-300x240.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shutterstock_110699009-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shutterstock_110699009.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"Date\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8211; Three former leaders of a once-potent New York law firm are facing fraud charges stemming from its collapse.<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance unveiled the criminal case Thursday in what was the nation&#8217;s biggest law firm bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants are former Dewey &amp; LeBouef (luh-BUHF&#8217;) LLP chairman Steven Davis, former chief executive Stephen DiCarmine and former chief financial officer Joel Sanders. They are awaiting arraignment.<\/p>\n<p>The men&#8217;s lawyers say their clients committed no crimes and worked hard to try to save the firm after the 2008 financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Vance says the three conspired to cook the firm&#8217;s books from 2008 until its 2012 implosion. Vance says they misled auditors and even their own partners.<\/p>\n<p>Vance says seven ex-Dewey employees have pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Dewey once employed 3,000 people worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8211; Three former leaders of a once-potent New York law firm are facing fraud charges stemming from its &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":3634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[814,816,817,815],"class_list":["post-3624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-ny","tag-firm","tag-fraud","tag-law","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}