Largest corporate fraud investigations

December 2008, are you aware of the largest private financial fraud case in our country's history?

National Century Financial Enterprises:
“This case is one of the largest corporate fraud investigations involving a privately held company headquartered in small town America,” said Assistant Director Kenneth W. Kaiser of the FBI Criminal Investigative Division.

3/9/2006- 10-K SEC Filing, filed by J P MORGAN CHASE & CO on 3/9/2006: Enron litigation. JPMorgan Chase and certain of its officers and directors are involved in a number of lawsuits arising out of its banking relationships with Enron Corp.; the three current or former Firm employees are sued in their roles as former members of NCFE's board of directors...

Just a reminder relating to the need for ‘healthcare financial service’ i.e. (NCFE) National Century Financial Enterprises; home health - which was struggling under the Balanced Budget Act of 1997; about 1,400 agencies closed nationwide in 1998.
Guess one of the publicly traded healthcare companies that were involved in this ‘private’ financial institution that was used for the divestiture of the losing assets of the home healthcare units?

On Sept 8, 1998 Standard and Poors downgraded the bonds of Charter/HCA to negative bases on poor earnings. Looks like Rainwater and his Crescent Cos' have finally stumbled.

Columbia just decided to sell its home health-care business and its head announced she is forming a company of her own. The home care unit is valued at $ 450 million. At least two other top executives of Columbia have resigned.

March 26, 2008
By Jodi Andes
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Nine other executives have been convicted or pleaded guilty in National Century's collapse. Only Poulsen and executive James Happ still await trial.
Only Poulsen and executive James Happ still await trial?

December 18, 2008 - The ONE AND ONLY acquittal; James K Happ!
By Jodi Andes
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Prosecutors' case fell short, juror says ….Instead, they were more a belief that federal prosecutors had not done their job, the juror said after he and his fellow jurors acquitted James K. Happ of five counts after 12 hours of deliberation. "He very well may have been guilty. A lot of us thought he was," said the juror who wouldn't give his name. "But if he was, you gotta have the evidence."
Who was James K Happ?

SEC Form September 9, 2003 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, Med Diversified Inc.:
Previously, Mr. Happ served for three years as executive vice president of NCFE, during which time he restructured the servicer department to improve operational performance and accelerated the utilization of technology to increase operational efficiency.

Mr. Happ also served as chief financial officer of the Dallas-based Columbia Homecare Group, Inc.,

… In this role, he directed the company through the challenging reimbursement climate, known as the interim payment system, and participated in the divestiture of all of Columbia/HCA's home care operations

Who purchased the majority of this divestiture in late ’98 & early ’99?

Medshares, Inc. of Memphis, Tennessee

Who financed this divestiture?
National Century Financial Enterprises, Inc.

Sherry Gibson pleaded guilty in 2003 to a lesser charge of securities fraud in exchange for helping prosecutors. Gibson told jurors she told investors "absolutely nothing" about National Century's practices of advancing cash to Memphis, Tenn.-based Medshares, a home-health care provider… July 30, 1999

1999- Who filed the largest corporate bankruptcy in the Western Tennessee Federal Bankrutpcy Court?

Medshares, Inc. of Memphis, Tennessee