The former chief financial officer of
San Francisco health care giant McKesson Corp. was indicted Tuesday
by a federal grand jury for his role in a huge criminal securities
fraud that wiped out $9 billion of shareholder value five years
ago.
Laptop Battery Richard Hawkins, 53, of Atherton was
indicted by the grand jury in San Francisco on charges of
conspiracy, securities fraud and making false statements to an
accountant in connection with an audit of McKesson. Hawkins also
faces similar civil charges filed Tuesday by the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
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Thinkpad The indictment, the latest in a
5-year-old investigation, constitutes the first charges brought by
federal authorities against any McKesson officer who was not
associated with Atlanta medical software firm HBO & Co. before
its acquisition by McKesson in January 1999 for $13.9 billion. The
charges relate to Hawkins' conduct during the first quarter after
McKesson acquired HBOC.
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Microsoft In an interview Tuesday, Hawkins'
attorney, Walt Brown of San Francisco, denied any wrongdoing by his
client, who he helped to uncover the fraud. "Mr. Hawkins is
innocent," Brown said. "It is a travesty that after a five-year
investigation, on the eve of the statute of limitations, they would
try to take a good-faith judgment made by an innocent man and turn
it into a criminal case."
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Laptop Computers In a statement, McKesson reiterated
that the company is not being investigated and noted that Hawkins
left McKesson in June 1999.
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Laptop Computer HBOC grew to become the nation's
leading supplier of software for hospitals, pharmacies and other
medical businesses. McKesson's purchase of HBOC pummeled McKesson's
stock when fraud was discovered just 3 1/2 months later. Company
executives were accused of orchestrating a bogus accounting scheme
that falsified company ledgers to boost HBOC's profit.
Brown was one of 15 former HealthSouth executives who pleaded guilty to a variety of fraud charges after it was discovered that the company had been reporting inflated earnings for years. Forensic accountants working for HealthSouth's new management put the extent of the fraud at nearly $4 billion. Former HealthSouth Chief Executive Richard Scrushy, who had been accused of directing the fraud, in June was found not guilty of all charges by a Birmingham jury even though five former finance chiefs testified that he was aware of and involved in the bogus accounting.
Desktop Computer "In this case, the allegations,
which now reach into the McKesson side of the company, involve a
deception of striking magnitude, with an overall loss to investors
from a fraudulent scheme involving this and other defendants that
reaches into the billions of dollars," U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan
said in a statement.
Notebooks According to the civil and criminal
charges, Hawkins participated in a fraudulent scheme with other
former McKesson officers to artificially inflate the company's
financial results for the quarter that ended March 31, 1999, by
fraudulently recognizing revenue from a $20 million transaction
between McKesson and Data General Corp.
Lenovo Hawkins and others reported revenue
from the Data General transaction as part of the company's earnings
release on April 22, 1999, despite the fact that McKesson's
independent auditors told Hawkins that revenue from the transaction
could not be recognized.
Hard Drive Soon after the fraud was discovered
in April 1999, McKesson's stock price fell from about $65 to $34,
slashing the company's market value by more than $9
billion.
Travelstar Hawkins is the 12th person to face
civil charges in the wide-ranging investigation. The SEC complaint
seeks to force Hawkins to pay disgorgement and civil penalties and
prevent him from serving as an officer or director of a public
company.
Gateway Of six former HBOC executives who
have been criminally charged, four have pleaded guilty, including
former co-chief executives Albert Bergonzi and Jay Gilbertson,
former sales vice president Dominick DeRosa and former finance vice
president Timothy Heyerdahl.
Laptop Parts Charges are pending against ex-HBOC
chief executive Charles McCall and former general counsel Jay
Lapine.
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