Case in Point: Financial statement fraud. An acquisition in wonderland?
Just like Alice in her Wonderland, the acquiring company didn't anticipate the tricks of the Mad Hatter and March Hare. But eventually the purchasers discovered the nightmare of an $18-million fraud in the company they had bought.

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