As anyone who reads SEC filings regularly knows, today’s a big deadline for companies on a calendar year, which means that filings are backed up like planes at LaGuardia. All of us here at footnoted are finding lots of interesting things and while not all of them are juicy enough to warrant a post, it’s [...]

Many years ago, I picked up the business section of the Sarasota Herald Tribune, a newspaper that I used to compete against, and saw this headline: “Negative Press Prompts Bank President to Resign”. Apparently, my articles in the Bradenton Herald questioning the accounting techniques at the now-defunct Key Florida Bank were too much for the [...]