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Readers, The story below on K12 is the last one for The Financial Investigator.com. Thank you profoundly for reading, your support and courtesy. There is a reason for folding now: The type of reporting work done here is difficult and time-consuming. Started as a hobby and becoming something (much) more, FI.com frankly lacks the platform, [...]

Editor’s note: Over the past week, the NCAA notified K12 that it will no longer accept credits earned from Aventa Learning, a K12 unit whose internet coursework has been favored by college student-athletes or those prepping for professional debuts, because of concerns over rigor and standards. Language and documents discussing this have been inserted near [...]

The Financial Investigator has obtained the actual resignation letter that PriceWaterhouseCoopers wrote to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board when it stopped working for China Medical Technologies, a collapsed Chinese maker of cancer diagnostic devices. The resignation letter, obtained via Freedom of Information Act and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of the [...]

The situation surrounding China Medical Technologies continues to get more curious daily. On July 13, in California Superior Court, three holders of the defaulted convertible notes filed suit against the chairman of China Medical, Wu Xiaodong, for allegedly engineering the transfer of most of the company’s operating assets to a pair of companies he privately [...]

The secrets of China Medical Technologies are beginning to surface and they confirm what many openly suspect: The framework of its corporate control has long since collapsed and management has disappeared. According to documents obtained by The Financial Investigator, China Medical’s auditor, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, resigned after failing to get responses from its management despite “repeated efforts [...]

William Deutsch and his son Peter might not be names that are on the tip of investor’s tongues, but there is a fair chance that the wines they import have been. The New York area pair have done quite well for themselves importing and marketing some of the most popular wine brands on store shelves, [...]

Theology and high finance rarely intersect but one place they likely met is at the Toronto headquarters of insurance conglomerate Fairfax Financial Holdings in the winter of 2003. It was there, in the bitter cold of that early February, that V. Prem Watsa, Fairfax’s founder and chief executive, along with a handful of his closest [...]

An April 23, 2010 E-mail from Kevin Corcoran to a host of his colleagues is likely the sort that, in one form or another, millions of Americans deal with regularly during the work day. Bluntly noting “We have not made the progress we need to in this area,” Corcoran adds, “More than $1[million] in funding” [...]

Investigators with the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the offices of Benjamin Wey’s New York Global Group yesterday, seizing documents and conducting interviews with employees. According to one NYGG official, Wey’s Manhattan apartment was also raided. As of now, no charges have been filed and it was not clear what [...]

On June 10th last year, a hedge fund manager named Kevin Barnes got a very direct E-mail from one Neal Marder, the head of Winston & Strawn LLP’s Los Angeles litigation group. In the E-mail was a PDF of a letter that made abundantly clear two things to Barnes: The first was that in many [...]

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