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SEC Charges Two Companies with Accounting Shenanigans

SECURITIES-AND-EXCHANGE-COMMISSION-facebook announced Former CEO and chairman of the board Charles L. Gassenheimer, former chief financial officer Jeffrey A. Seidel, and former chief accounting officer Robert R. Kamischke agreed to pay penalties of $100,000, $50,000, and $30,000, respectively.

During the course of investigating Ener1, the SEC also found that the PWC audit partner assigned to the company violated 
violated PCAOB and professional auditing standards when he failed to perform sufficient procedures to support his audit conclusions. The SEC suspended the partner, Robert D. Hesselgesser, from participating in the financial reporting or audits of public companies for at least two years.