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Aloha Petroleum
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| Type | Private company |
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| Industry | Retail and wholesale trade |
| Founded | Honolulu (early 1900's) |
| Headquarters | Honolulu, USA |
| Number of locations | 60 |
| Area served | Oahu, Hawaii |
| Services | Petroleum products, convenience stores |
| Website | www.alohagas.com |
Aloha Petroleum, Ltd. is a company that owns numerous convenience stores (Island Mini Mart) and gas stations (Aloha Quality Gas) in Hawaii, many of which are operated by independent convenience store owners such as 7-Eleven.
The company also has federal, state, city and county contracts and supplies gasoline to other convenience stores and gas stations not branded as Aloha Gas or Island Mini Mart, includingCostco, Freedom, NEX and AAFES. Aloha Petroleum Ltd. also owns the Mahalo branded gas stations.
Aloha was part of a controversial deal in which Harken Energy sold the company to a group of investors that included two of Harken's own board members, turning Harken's equitystake in Aloha into a loan, and thereby disguising most of their 1989 losses.[1] This technique of inflating profits was used more famously by Enron. The same accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, was responsible for the Aloha Petroleum deal.[2]
The consulting wing of the firm became increasingly important during the 1970s and 1980s, growing at a much faster rate than the more established accounting, auditing, and tax practice. This disproportionate growth, and the consulting division partners' belief that they were not garnering their fair share of firm profits, created increasing friction between the two divisions.
In 1989, Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting became separate units of Andersen Worldwide Société Coopérative. Arthur Andersen increased its use of accounting services as a springboard to sign up clients for Andersen Consulting's more lucrative business.
The two businesses spent most of the 1990s in a bitter dispute. Andersen Consulting saw a huge surge in profits during the decade. However, the consultants continued to resent transfer payments they were required to make to Arthur Andersen. In August 2000, at the conclusion of International Chamber of Commerce arbitration of the dispute, the arbitrators granted Andersen Consulting its independence from Arthur Andersen, but awarded the US$1.2 billion in past payments (held in escrow pending the ruling) to Arthur Andersen, and declared that Andersen Consulting could no longer use the Andersen name. As a result Andersen Consulting changed its name to Accenture onNew Year's Day 2001 and Arthur Andersen meanwhile now having the right to the Andersen Consulting name rebranded itself as "Andersen".
Perhaps most telling about who won the decision was that four hours after the arbitrator made his ruling, Arthur Andersen CEO Jim Wadia suddenly resigned.
In 2002, the firm voluntarily surrendered its licenses to practice as Certified Public Accountants in the United Statesafter being found guilty of criminal charges relating to the firm's handling of the auditing of Enron, an energy corporation based in Texas
...the damage to its reputation has prevented it from returning as a viable business, though it still nominally exists.
| Industry | Accounting Professional Services Tax Consulting Licenses of Certified Public Accountants surrendered in 2002 |
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 | . | Arthur Andersen LLP | ||
| . | Arthur Andersen LLP headquarters 1405 North Fifth Avenue St. Charles, IL 60174 USA Tel: 1 630 444 3760 Fax: 1 630 377 3794 | ||
Arthur Andersen
www.andersen.com/
Arthur Andersen LLP . Arthur Andersen LLP headquarters 1405 North Fifth Avenue St. Charles, IL 60174. USA Tel: 1 630 444 3760. Fax: 1 630 377 3794 ...Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, was once one of the "Big Five" accounting firms among PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst ...
As of 2011, Arthur Andersen LLP has not been formally dissolved nor has it declared bankruptcy. Ownership of the partnership has been ceded to four limited liability corporations named Omega Management I through IV. As of 2011, Arthur Andersen LLP still operates the Q Center conference center in St. Charles, nowadays mostly used for Accenture trainings.
Migration of partners and local offices to new firms
Many partners formed new companies or were acquired by other consulting firms. Examples include:
- Huron Consulting
- KPMG which absorbed the Computer Forensics division based in Cypress, CA
- Perot Systems which absorbed six partners in the East
- Protiviti hired approximately 800 former workers
- SMART Business Advisory and Consulting which absorbed some of the Philadelphia office
- West Monroe Partners
- WTAS which was started in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Washington D.C. and West Palm Beach and later expanded to 8 other locations
- Grant Thornton International which absorbed the North Carolina and South Carolina offices.
- True Partners Consulting
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Rep. Bernie Sanders,I-Vt., confronted Joseph Berardino, Arthur Andersen LLP’s CEO, with a global hit list of Arthur Andersen’s allegedly fraudulent accounting practices: Sunbeam, Waste Management, Asia Pulp and Paper and a bankrupt insurance company in Australia.
...Andersen’s alleged accounting fraud in the collapse of the Baptist Foundation of Arizona, possibly the largest bankruptcy of a religious foundation in the history of the United States.
... to link the scandal-ridden Enron debacle to the bankruptcy of a Phoenix-based Southern Baptist religious foundation called the Baptist Foundation of Arizona (BFA).
the national press in its East Coast provincialism refused to cover the Baptist Foundation collapse in any meaningful way, if at all.
The link between Enron and BFA that the Democrats will announce is the way Arthur Andersen handled the books of both failed companies — by giving them two thumbs up even as they were plummeting toward bankruptcy.
The long-ignored collapse of BFA is every bit as tragic as the Enron failure. In 1999, BFA filed for bankruptcy in Phoenix, leaving in the lurch 13,000 mostly elderly investors who collectively lost more than $590 million. Arizona Attorney General Janet Napolitano called the BFA collapse the largest bankruptcy of a religious nonprofit in the history of the United States.
BFA investors are Christian folk who live throughout the United States, men and women who assumed they’d invested their money wisely because they believed neither Arthur Andersen accountants nor the pious Southern Baptist salesmen who promoted BFA’s high-interest notes would deceive them. So far, BFA investors have received pennies on their dollars from bankruptcy settlements, but they will share part of a $21 million settlement from BFA’s lawyers at the Phoenix law firm Jennings, Strouss and Salmon, who have not admitted wrongdoing.
(that's key. Never admit wrongdoing.)
And several of BFA’s key managers have been indicted for alleged white-collar fraud in state court, although all await their trials.
In Arizona, Andersen has adamantly denied wrongdoing, pointing its finger instead at the company it audited and accusing BFA management of hiding fraud from the auditors.
there are many more similarities between BFA and Enron. In public records relating to the BFA collapse in Arizona, Andersen is accused of:
Instead, Andersen repeatedly gave Enron and BFA the green light, thus allegedly misleading investors who continued pouring their money into the failing companies.
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| 1. | Aloha Petroleum, Ltd | Available | Honolulu, HI | Harry Cockrell (OFFICER: D) Robert W Fung (OFFICER: S) Brian Gambrill (OFFICER: D) Thomas Grimes (OFFICER: V/T) Thomas A Grimes (OFFICER: V/T) Albert C Kiely (OFFICER: D) Robert Maynard (OFFICER: P/D) Robert F Maynard (OFFICER: CEO/P/D) Robert F Maynard (OFFICER: C/D) Richard M Parry (OFFICER: CEO/P) | ||
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