Other bank analysts are also being closely scrutinised in routine audits of their firms.
The parent company of Canal Plus, Vivendi Universal, began a routine audit of the film company, the Artists Production Group, in early February that has escalated to a fuller inquiry.
Federal authorities should focus more on aggressive investigation of major tax cheats, he said, rather than routine audits of taxpayers who conscientiously file returns each year.
The commission learned of Mr. Silver's discount stay during what a commission spokesman called a routine audit of the hotel's parent company, Caesars Entertainment Inc.
Ford said the problem was spotted early in December during a routine audit of a supplier, prompting an investigation and the decision for a recall.
Wal-Mart's expanding investigation began in spring 2011 as a relatively routine audit of how well its foreign subsidiaries were complying with its anticorruption policies.
Last week, Vivendi found its opportunity to end the arrangement with Artists Management Group, 16 months before the contract's expiration, by raising hard questions that arose from a recent routine audit of the Ovitz film venture.
RSA blamed its first profit warning in November after claims caused by bad weather but then came back with a second alert raising problems found during a "routine audit" of its Irish business.
In all likelihood, the Securities and Exchange Commission will soon end its investigation of Tyco's books without taking any action.Meanwhile, the government's routine audit of Tyco's tax filings should hold few terrors.
And the average out-of-pocket cost of ID theft is less than one-third of the estimated average $3,450 additional tax, penalties and interest assessed by routine audits of individual returns (excluding the really big money cases).
