In Accountants and Attorneys we Trust

With all the noise about SOX and options backdating and Linux/Windows IP and IBM/amazon patent issues, tech world has been taken over by accountants and attorneys. So who do you trust? Read on....

A crime boss finds out that his accountant has cheated him out of ten million bucks.

His accountant is deaf - by design as he would not hear anything that he might be able to testify about in court.

When the boss goes to confront the accountant about his missing money, he brings along his attorney, who happens to know sign language.

The boss tells the lawyer, "Ask him where the 10 million bucks he embezzled from me is."

The attorney translates the sign language, "He says he doesn't know what you're talking about."

The boss pulls out a gun, puts it to the accountant's head, and says, "Ask him again!"

The frantic hand signals translate to, "OK! You win! The money is in a brown briefcase, buried behind the shed in my cousin Joe's backyard in Queens!"

The boss asks the attorney, "Well, what'd he say?"

The attorney replies, "He says you don't have the guts to pull the trigger."