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Former CA Executives Charged With Fraud ... Prosecutors referred to one practice as the '35-day month' because ...
- ↑ W. McCracken (April 13, 2007). "CA, Inc" (PDF). WSJ.com (Wall Street Journal).
Given that the facts underlying the 35-Day Month practice at CA had ...
- 1 2 "Ex-Leader of Computer Associates Gets 12-Year Sentence and Fine". NYTimes.com (The New York Times). November 3, 2006.
... to 12 years in prison for orchestrating a $2.2 billion accounting fraud at the software company... The four-year investigation of Computer Associates, now CA,
- ↑ "CA's former CEO gets 12 years in prison in accounting scheme". The Los Angeles Times. November 3, 2006.
Sanjay Kumar, the former chief executive of CA Inc., was sentenced to ... in a $2.2-billion accounting fraud at the computer software company
- ↑ "CEO who led $2.2B fraud scandal released from prison". MyNBC5.com (WPTZ-TV). March 17, 2017.
The former chairman and CEO of a New York software company who orchestrated a $2.2 billion accounting fraud is out of ... It now operates as CA Technologies
- 1 2 3 "Kumar Gets Hard Time". InformationWeek . November 6, 2006. p. 15.
- ↑ Started in 2002, prosecuted in 2006/"four-year investigation" (NYTimes)
- 1 2 3 "CA's ex-CEO is indicted on fraud". CNN.com. September 22, 2004.
- 1 2 3 "Former IT boss jailed for 12 years over '35-day month' scam" . independent.co.uk. November 3, 2006. Archived from the original on 2018-10-25.
- ↑ "CA ex-CEO pleads guilty to fraud". Sydney Morning Herald. April 25, 2006.
... had closed - a practice known within the company as the "35-day month" - and "cleaned up" contracts by removing time stamps from faxes.
- ↑ "How Serious Was the Fraud at Computer Associates?".
... termed "the 35-day month," "the three-day window" and the "flash period. ... noting that directors should be especially vigilant at such times."
- ↑ "2 Years in Prison for Ex-Software Executive". The New York Times. January 17, 2007.
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