A former CPA in south-central Missouri has been sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison for conducting a Ponzi scheme that swindled victims of millions. Douglas Richardson, age 47, was sentenced to 188 months in federal prison and ordered to pay his victims more than $8.8 million in restitution.

 BDO has formally established a flexible work plan so that teams can determine where they will work.  The firm this month descried the plan as “approach that affords BDO
professionals the opportunity to reimagine how day-to-day work is accomplished”.

The latest weekly statistical filing report from the Internal Revenue Service report shows the total number of returns for the season through June 12 less than half a percent higher than the yea-ago season through July 17. There were 152,465,000 returns field for the year to date compared to 151,782,000 through last year’s extended deadline.