Here's the 10Q and 10K/A (4/29/16) from approximately that period. The article is dated 5-1-16. I'd like you to find the relevant section where that is actually shown in the financials from that period? The article is written as though this is an admission of culpability. I didn't see it in the relevant financial report. Maybe I was just looking too quickly.
However, I did find that their regular audit processes, from 2014 had PREVIOUSLY disclosed that issue, prior to Phase Five's report, not as an admission of culpability, but as a measure to IMPROVE their processes. Long before it was suggested, by the fakers, it was a part of the company's improvement and audit process, it appears. Phase Five's report came out in 2015. It "found" nothing that had not already been highlighted by the company and that was not being remedied. Neither did that reporter. His report suggests it is in relation to Phase Five's allegations, as though, again, there is some admission here of culpability.
I think your ability to find that and point it out is very interesting.
(5) I have disclosed, based on my most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s Board of Directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
(a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
(b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.
IN fact, the admissions by the company came from, not 2016, not after Phase Five, but BEFORE Phase Five, in 2014, during their regular audit processes: