Accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers squared off Tuesday in court with lawyers for a defunct mortgage company's creditors and investors over a $5.5 billion lawsuit, which claimed the Big Four firm failed through years of audits to uncover massive fraud at a failed Alabama bank. The estimated $21 billion fraud at Colonial Bank of Montgomery, Alabama, was orchestrated by top executives at the shuttered mortgage firm Taylor, Bean and Whitaker of Ocala, Florida. Six Taylor Bean senior...
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