guidelines even if the underlying numbers from management were fraud.

Here's how Barbara McQuaid (U of Mich School of Law) put it:

“This effort to distance themselves could be an effort at self-preservation,” she said. It depends on whether Mazars knew the information it was getting from the Trump Organization was false or whether it was misled, too.

My personal guess is that Mazar's was paid quite well not to look closely at all---quite well. I doubt their likely willful ignorance is criminal.



[Post edited by Shenhoo at 09/22/2022 09:25AM]