Then, in 2007, with the prospect of parole on the horizon, the same prosecutors — with what appears to be the complicity of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Yukos's longtime accounting firm — indicted the two men again, bringing a new round of Kafkaesque charges.
"If I were to buy a new car, it certainly wouldn't be General Motors," said Mr. Long, who closed down his longtime account at a bank that received bailout money and moved his money to a credit union instead.
It changed a longtime accounting convention in Social Security, allocating higher-than-expected payroll tax revenues to the books for previous fiscal years rather than counting them toward the results for the year in which they were discovered.
Even some longtime IBMmainframe accounts use Sun when they buy new gear to run budding ventures on-line.
He also paid tribute to a longtime Baruch accounting professor, Abraham J. Briloff, who, he said, served as his friend and financial adviser, beginning in "the early stages of my career, when I could not afford him".
The finalists in the creative review were Richards, Bates and two agencies owned by the Publicis Groupe, Publicis & Hal Riney in San Francisco, which recently lost its longtime automotive account, the Saturn division of General Motors, and Publicis in the West in Seattle.
That's when longtime Monex accounting employee Vincent A. Spondello, invoking a 2006 law requiring the IRS to pay informants a minimum reward of 15% of the back taxes collected as a result of their information, filed a claim with the IRS Whistleblower Office for what could be $57 million or more for himself.
While the authorities would not confirm that Ms. Anderson was behind the open and candid exchange on her longtime Ask.fm account, family members told NBC News that the account belonged to her.
Abraham Briloff, a Baruch College accounting professor and a longtime critic of the accounting profession, has joked about a chief executive asking prospective auditors, "How much is two plus two?" The job goes to the one who replies, "What number are you looking for?" This case does nothing to reassure investors that such humor has no basis in fact.
Mr. Perry, who said his plan would balance the budget by 2020, also proposed letting younger workers divert some of their Social Security taxes into private investment accounts, a longtime goal of economic conservatives.
