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EY member firm fined $1.5M for failure to uncover $3B homebuilding fraud
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Aaron Nicodemus2020-12-18T16:35:00
A member firm of EY Global has been fined $1.5 million by the SEC to settle audit violations and improper conduct charges connected to a $3.3 billion accounting fraud committed by one of its customers.
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