- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
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Aaron Nicodemus2020-04-17T18:57:00
A former EY partner who blew the whistle on a massive money laundering scheme was awarded nearly $11 million by a U.K. judge, settling a lawsuit in which he claimed EY buried an audit that uncovered wrongdoing by a client.
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