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Funny... back in 2000, when Bill Simon first crossed my radar screen, I did a little research and found the Hindelang episode. By then Hindelang had been fired, and the question in my mind was how the heck did he manage to make it past Simon & Sons' due-diligence process? It was obviously a very costly oversight... and now it's gone even more costly!

Well, it turned out that the due-diligence had been performed for Simon & Sons by Deloitte & Touche. Interesting... a friend who is an (exceptional!) business-intelligence researcher found tons on Hindelang in the public record in a few minutes, but D&T had managed to miss it all. IMHO Simon & Sons might have a case against D&T for their failure to find this stuff.

I'm trying to dig up the information again and will post any public-domain stuff as I can.

"IMHO Simon & Sons might have a case against D&T for their failure to find this stuff....

IMHO, too...thanks for the reassuring info. (remind me to ignore SacBee) and I hope Simon's lawyers and PR folks are as "on the ball" as you and your researcher friend...why don't you send them a note just in case?! (good work!)