He has been accused of embezzlement, tax fraud and false accounting, and attempting to bribe a judge.
He has over the years been accused of everything from bribery, false accounting, collusion, tax evasion, and embezzlement.
The court heard that Anthony Johnson had previous convictions for false accounting when he ran a different post office.
He was held in September 2011 - days after being freed from jail for false accounting over parliamentary expenses.
Another former MP, Margaret Moran, has been charged with false accounting - she has not yet entered a plea.
Mr Berlusconi, whose party leads in the opinion polls, still faces further trials for alleged corruption and false accounting.
In early April, it became clear why as auditors uncovered delinquent loans, false accounting entries and doctored reports to board members.
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This made most types of false accounting by private companies civil rather than criminal offences and shortened the time limit on proceedings.
The peer was arrested days after being released from prison having served nine weeks of a nine-month sentence for false accounting over parliamentary expenses.
Adoboli has been charged with fraud and false accounting in London.
Last year Mr Romiti was found guilty of false accounting in a corruption case in the Italian courts, though he is appealing against the verdict.
He faces 11 charges of fraud by misrepresentation, two of possession of an article for use in fraud, two of money laundering and one of false accounting.
While opposition groups may agree that the central bank needs reforming, many are concerned that the government will try to tack on extra legislation such as measures relating to false accounting.
In July 2001 Mr Pecorella, who chairs the lower house's justice committee, also sponsored a law to downgrade the crime of false accounting, for which the prime minister was then on trial.
Ms Watkins was not slow to blame former Enron boss Jeffrey Skilling and chief finance officer Andrew Fastow as the villains of the piece, who deliberately sought by false accounting to inflate Enron's profits and conceal its losses.
Portsmouth boss Redknapp has protested his innocence since being one of five men arrested on Thursday on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and false accounting, and he would have been relieved to get back to football at Fratton Park.
He is a defendant in three trials: one on charges of embezzlement, tax-dodging and false accounting, one in which he stands accused of paying an under-age prostitute and one for alleged bribery. (He denies all the charges.) The third, in which he is accused of corrupting his former legal adviser, David Mills, is the one he is said to fear most.
Most commentators had expected him to be acquitted in three false-accounting cases after his government introduced new legislation this year.
The government's core allegation is that Mr Skilling used accounting trickery, false public statements and other devices to inflate Enron's share price, thereupon cashing in his share options.
The report says Cadbury reprogrammed its accounting system so employees could submit false invoices, purchase orders and other documents that made it seem as if a new plant were operating, even though it couldn't have been doing so legally.
Remember, there are plenty of civil and criminal laws to enforce actual accounting fraud as well as the release of false information to investors.
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Judging from what has happened with the False Claim Act, Dodd-Frank whistleblower suits will likely mainly concern accounting fraud at companies that file with the SEC.
Compounding the purportedly false audit representations, the Complaint asserts that JMA is not a legitimate accounting firm but rather a shell company that Murray secretly created and controlled.
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