accounting

Account Executives in Long Island Plead Guilty to Coverup

Posted on by Carl Horowitz

As a Certified Fraud Examiner, Salvatore Armao knew he was in no position to do anything but plead guilty. That’s why he did just that. Last Thursday, August 2, Armao, founder and managing partner of a Long Island, N.Y.-based accounting firm, Armao LLP, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to falsifying financial records filed with the Department of Labor to conceal a scheme by an unnamed labor union president to embezzle more than $100,000 over a number of years from a related benefit plan. Armao and a principal officer of his firm, Karen Auer, had been charged on June 1 with aiding and abetting the thefts. Auer, to no surprise, pleaded guilty on August 3. The actions follow a probe by the FBI, and the Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General and Employee Benefits Security Administration.

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New York Accounting Execs Charged with Concealing Union Benefit Thefts

Posted on by Carl Horowitz

An organization hires a certified public accountant as its first line of defense against being sued or ripped off. Salvatore Armao and Karen Auer, respectively, the founder-managing partner and a principal officer of the Garden City (Nassau County), L.I.-based accounting firm Armao LLP, apparently forgot their mission. On June 1, the U.S. Justice Department announced that the pair had been charged in Manhattan federal court with aiding and abetting the embezzlement of over $100,000 from a benefit plan of an unspecified union. Each surrendered to authorities that morning. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General and Employee Benefits Security Administration, with assistance from the FBI and the Justice Department’s Labor-Management Racketeering Unit.

According to federal prosecutors, Salvatore Armao, 64, a resident of Queens, N.Y., and Karen Auer, 47, a resident of Bethpage, N.Y., had the wrong kind of loyalty to a client. From … Read More ➡