“These guys had repeated instances of errors in their financials, delayed filings and people who could not get their job done, who had to be reassigned. It is surprising given all the shareholder money that was spent by the company and taxpayer money spent by the SEC on this investigation, nothing has resulted from it.”
“For a company such as Merck to reflect as revenues in its financial statements billions of dollars of co-payments a customer makes directly to another company, the pharmacy, which the pharmacy collects and never remits to Merck, just does not reflect the economics of what is occurring, ... If that is what the SEC accepts, then investors are in trouble and our financial reporting indeed needs improving.”
“First and foremost it is the company, it's these executives that put these numbers together, it's not the auditors. So the people who are actually in the kitchen, cooking the books, stirring the stew, so to speak, are these executives, and there is no excuse for what happened.”
