If you lie to your auditors, and therefore have fraudulent audited financials, how are the companies going to find out? Why do you think the CFO is also being sued? Why do you think their auditors ran away and retracted their audits of the past, what, 15 years?This is what I don't get, in my experience:
Municipalities don't let the property owner assess the value of real estate for tax purposes.
Banks don't let the property owner assess the value of real estate for lending purposes.
Insurance companies don't let the property owner assess the value of real estate for insurance purposes.
They all do their own valuations
I guess we'll find out