I was recently hired as the Controller for a company. During the first several months, I have discovered that the owner of the company along with an “accounting” minion have been doing extremely unethical practices such as using SBA dollars to pay for for his two mansions (one in CA and one in TX) both have monthly mortgages exceeding $12k a month, through the company. Additionally, the owner has also had personal assets paid by the company and has not reported any of this as compensation thus eluding payroll taxes. He has had the minion move or hide items in the balance sheet so as to look favorable to the bank lender working for the SBA. Further findings, include completely ignoring the fact that he has not matched or paid out (to former employees) what they had in the accounts at the time of separation. As it relates to the SBA dollars transmitted to him on what I define as “cooked books”, I believe that the owner has committed serious criminal offenses, including wire fraud and fraud against a federal agency all which have actual prison time, along with penalties, and selling of assets. When I first brought these findings to his attention he became super defensive and instructed his minion to not allow me to see BS beyond 2024 (current year). He lost his shh when I told him I had brought in an outside auditor to help in drilling the numbers. The company is based in CA doing business in Texas. I have been a CFO for over 15 years and well, I learned that nothing says guilty than intentionally preventing me from finishing my review. UPDATE: I was recently released without cause, well, he said I wasn’t a “culture fit”, which is currently a popular excuse companies are now using and was not even offered a severance package, although I did nothing wrong but discover fraud. Besides contacting the SBA OIG and the IRS for the 401k debauchery, I am hoping someone can direct me to other offices I need to report him to or even an attorney. Thank you.