According to the Bloomberg article somebody else posted, she hid some of the details of what she was doing from the auditors, and this was revealed at trial using the auditors' notes.
Right, but then in that case her problem is (as I was trying to say above) not that she was "hiring sketchy accountants" but that she was "deceiving non-sketchy accountants".
It just seems like a lot of the discussion is trying to leave this at the feet of the auditors. Can't really blame them for your wrongdoing if you endeavored to deceive them, in my opinion.
To reiterate, I don't disagree at all, I was only objecting to the characterization of the core problem as "finding sketchy accountants". Giving accountants sketchy information? Sure. The accountants themselves being stenographers for hire? No.
