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86. The Wagon (Richard Scrushy)

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The Life of Richard Scuche

Richard scruche was known to play entire albums of his own country music on repeat. In 19 96, for the first time ever, health south suffered a bad financial quarter. Their actual numbers were nowhere near wall street's expectations. By this time, richard was far more interested in other projects than managing health souths day to day and the business was slipping because of it. Bill owens, health souse controller and chief accountant, proposed they falsify accounting entries to inflate their qorderly earnings. The accountants would post thousands and thousands of small entries to the contractal adjustment account,. To which auditors would pay no mind that account estimates the difference between the amount billed

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