Ex-KPMG Partner Gets Wire Fraud Conspiracy Conviction Expunged

A former audit partner in KPMG’s department of professional practice won a bid to vacate his 2020 conviction for conspiring to steal confidential information from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

Following United States v. Blaszczak, it’s clear the prosecution offered no proof at all regarding one of the elements of wire fraud. As such, the conviction had “a fatal constitutional taint for lack of due process of law,” the US District Court for the Southern District of New York said Tuesday.

David Britt and his codefendants’ convictions were based on their alleged misuse of confidential information about which ...