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Corporate Fraud Melts Big Cheese

Recipes for cooking company books vary according to taste but generally include the following ingredients: greed, theft, power, and accounting trickery. In the case of a New Jersey company, those elements congealed around a tasty ingredient found in many a kitchen cookbook: cheese.
 

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