That's indicative of a company with an imperial CEO and very poor controls.

First and foremost it is the company, it's these executives that put these numbers together, it's not the auditors. So the people who are actually in the kitchen, cooking the books, stirring the stew, so to speak, are these executives, and there is no excuse for what happened.

For a company such as Merck to reflect as revenues in its financial statements billions of dollars of co-payments a customer makes directly to another company, the pharmacy, which the pharmacy collects and never remits to Merck, just does not reflect the economics of what is occurring, ... If that is what the SEC accepts, then investors are in trouble and our financial reporting indeed needs improving.

We have made the company several offers saving them millions of dollars and they have turned them down and they will not secure a single job. They have not changed their position since November.

The acts that we have been charged with are totally unacceptable, and in violation of company policy.

He came along and I just fell in love with him. He's been a lot of company for me.