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Civil Litigation,
Law Practice

Aug. 9, 2018

Accountant for family suing firm challenged on assertions

Jurors in a fraud trial against Buchalter APC on Wednesday heard from an accountant who detailed years of bookkeeping by attorneys that he described as “fraudulent” and said it depleted a multimillion-dollar dairy farm family’s fortune.

SANTA ANA -- Jurors in a fraud trial against Buchalter APC on Wednesday heard from an accountant who detailed years of bookkeeping by attorneys that he described as "fraudulent" and said it depleted a multimillion-dollar dairy farm family's fortune.

Mark L. Van Buskirk, a sole practitioner in Long Beach, detailed what he labeled "circular transactions" in which the family's attorneys took money from some accounts then replaced it wi...

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