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"WHERE ARE MY DOCUMENTS" (sanitized...)

My ex-CPA failed to provide them after 4 requests over a 9 month period with my Attorney cc'd on two of those. The last of those attempts was formatted as a Legal Demand 9 months after the first three. He said nothing, ever.

The Maryland Board of Accountancy was asked to help me obtain my documents. They closed my complaint "due to documents he provided". They were asked politely a second time to reconsider my request before I asked to get into their business and an obviously misleading response in more detail. They eventually declined to reopen with no further explanation of their decision. Supposedly, an Assistant Attorney General of Maryland supported them in their case review??

How could he/she have come to this conclusion?

My exCPA Response Documents were demanded and to my surprise they were delivered to me without the need of a FOIA request or some other begging activity. It seems clear as day that a lot more people should be in boiling hot water now...

Is anyone actually reading anything? Did anyone actually read my complaint?

Did anyone think to ask my CPA to forward over the documents he claimed he sent in his response?

Did anyone read the Maryland Statutes and Codes related to Acts Discreditable to the Profession?

Does anyone know about he US Treasury Rules or the AICPA rules upstream from those?

The only logical conclusion one can come to is that the Board and all Member have some other PROOF i got my documents and PROOF this was all a sham complaint? I will curiosly look forward to seeing that defense, if it's taken up...

------------------- The missing text from MD Board of Accountancy to ex CPA ---------------------------
Outside of PROOF I'm fully un-privy to that shows I got my documents without my knowledge,
any normal, unbiased adjudicator would have said the following to my exCPA at time of receiving my complaint,

"Hey, Mr. Ex CPA. On behalf of the MD Board of Accounting and the MD DLLR, thanks for images of your emails with his docs. His position is that he never got those. While we can try to turn a blind eye to some email fog , your total and complete lack of responses to his emails and your lack of desire to confirm he received his documents while knowing there were email problems is unbelievably suspicious. Far worse, however, is your admission of receipt of his demand nine months later, with yet another request for docs, and a complete lack of evidence indicating you did anything with that other than shred it. If you had done the right thing, that part of his complaint would never have found us.

1) Get his documents to him now. Mail them with tracking and email him a copy of the delivery confirmation.
OR email them with a request for confirmation of receipt.
2) if he doesn't respond to digital receipt, email them again and ask for receipt.

3) If he doesn't respond, mail them with tracking and send him a copy of the delivery confirmation

Do that now.
We will then try to look at the rest with a more blind eye and see what cover we can provide with the Assistance of an Asst Attorney General of MD title drop in the letter falsely indicating you were an Angel.
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I admire people who can bring comedy into difficult situations. I always liked the simplest of Bar jokes with the strings. I'm no joke creator but I've tried, and this is the best I can muster at this time…

A CPA and his client are sitting in a bar having a dialogue…

Client - “The IRS just sent me a notice. They said I owe late fees because my returns are not on record yet.”
CPA - “That’s not right. I filed them. Here’s my filing receipt.”
Client - “The IRS says you should have gotten a confirmation of filing notice. Do you have that?”
CPA - “That’s B/S. I filed the documents. Tell them it was done properly and you owe them nothing.”
US Treasury to CPA - { you fill in the rest }

An Attorney and a Judge are sitting in a bar having a dialogue…

Attorney - “I tried to file a complaint at the clerks office the other day and they wouldn’t take it !! ”
Judge - “Why not?”
Attorney - “The clerk said my receipt for payment of servicing wouldn’t suffice for proof of service. I was furious”.
Judge - “ Well, that seems reasonable, am I misunderstanding you?”
Attorney - “No. I never got the proof of servicing. I know the clerk. She should have taken my word for it! ”
Maryland Bar to these Attorneys - { you fill in the rest…}

Is ANYONE actually Home?
WHO is PAYING ATTENTION? (sanitized)

"WHERE ARE MYDOCUMENTS" (sanitized)

Footnote:

I have no way to know if it's relevant, but at this point I can't continue to pretend I didn't see it.

Who is the "they" in that linked in liked post on the MD DLLR Assistant Executive Directors account?

Is that an appropriate opinion for anyone in public office to hold, much less to share publicly?
It's not published on this site yet but it sure as heck can be.

Extended Introduction

My CPA of 20 years and I broke up in February 2020. I provide formal notice of relationship termination via email and asked for any and all documents I'd need to move on (Depreciation tables and any other).

My ex CPA failed to provide them after my initial notice and two more requests over a 72 hour time period, with my Attorney cc'd on the last request. He did provide documents for my significant other, so we knew he got at least the first request. I had to presume vindictiveness' had caught him and I had to move on temporarily.

9 months later, I sent a fourth and final request, in the form of a legal DEMAND with my Attorney cc'd on that too. He failed to acknowledge or reply to that either.

Complaints were filed in December 2021 with the AICPA and the Maryland Board of Accountancy. Both were specifically asked to help me with obtaining my documents in the top half of the first page. It was bullet item #1.

AICPA
Their acknowledgment and responsiveness was piss poor. They informed me of a 12-18 month complaint processing backlog. That's still not been opened to my knowledge. See AICPA page for more.

MD DLLR
They closed my complaint "due to documents he presented". No other explanation. Can you imagine? I requested to reopen and tried to gain insight into their logic. That request was in limbo for 4 months or so, until I was told it would not be reopened, with no further explanation for the closure. Oh really? That's not going to fly. WHERE ARE MY DOCUMENTS? (sanitized)

I issued them a Demand for ex CPAs response documents. They were immediately forthcoming. Turns out my exCPA provided an image of a one page email he claims he sent with my documents during that 72 hour period after our breakup. He provided a second image of the same document, as if it was then forwarded again after he received my first notice of failure to receive.

He provided no proof the images he provided weren't created in MS Word
He provided no proof outbound mail filtering had not been turned on before hitting send (an ez trick to spite someone and provide oneself with a pseudo CYA, as long as they don't push too hard and nobody mentions the outbound mail filtering trick)
He provided no proof of any attempt to confirm delivery nor any proof of delivery (obviously).
Apparently he figured everyone would just believe he was honest and I was lying if he just showed them some images of stuff that never transpired.
In his response to the MD Board of Accountancy, he also (foolishly) acknowledged getting and reading the Demand 9 months later. He indicated he was surprised, insulted and/or had his feelings hurt. Oddly he provides no comments about the fact he failed to fulfill his document delivery duties then either. BUT, even odder that nobody on a 7 member board found that part of his behavior or any other out of line.

An 7Member Review board with 5 CPAs on it must have thought I was lying and bluffing with my Attorney cc'd on emails and a Demand.

It is not my job to prove I didn't get them. That's an impossibility. It's HIS JOB to prove he delivered those documents and he's got NOTHING TO OFFER ANYONE other than two screen shots as of now, and not only do I have a sound reason for concern I have screen shots showing one of several possible motives of mal treatment as having been racially driven. There's a lot of professional folks involved now that need a serious check. This only became a serious problem when the MD Board of Accountancy, the DLLR and the Asst. Attorney General of MD all made a gross and wrong decision as a group.

On 9/23/2022, after both denials for support from the MD Board of Accountancy, with the Board Members and the DLLR included in the email correspondence, a demand was issued to my ex CPA to deliver my documents. At that point at least we knew he felt he needed to deliver them and we knew he had an email that was easily forwardable...

He was to forward electronic copies of those emails to myself, the DLLR and my attorney simultaneously by 5pm Friday September 30 , 2022.

Assuming he delivered the emails, the metadata wiould have been reviewed to see what it may or may not expose related to his claim of sending in a timely manner 18 months prior...
None of this email stuff is ultimately relevant for an Act Discrediting the Industry. That was solidified with a Failed Demand Response 9 months after the breakup. He could only go down hill from there.

A 7 Member, state level oversight board with 5 seasoned CPA's failed to ask him to do the most basic task requested, which was to help me get my documents. They also closed my complaint with no reasonable explanation and they overlooked a glaring failure with grossly blind eyes. They were supposedly supported in this analysis by an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Maryland.

Why would he behave as such?

He's a King of his own Kingdom. He's a confident and charismatic man who has owned his own practice for decades. He seems to be missing a softer voice of reason for balance. This is not the only experience with that, but it will be my last with him. (referring to my ex CPA of course)
The CPA community is a small and tight knit community. Especially for those who accel. There should be major concerns about how people on the Board were influenced by him or others to look the other way, having no idea of what might find them next...
There is also something else that should be considered. Could it be that my complaint and complaint results got hijacked by a racially biased person in the middle? As silly as that sounds, all I had to do was look to linked in to find enough to make it another valid concern.

Some folks are going to need some very serious adjudication training across the country once this wraps up.

WHERE ARE MY DOCUMENTS? (sanitized)
WHO IS PAYING ATTENTION? (sanitized)

Is ANYONE reading anything at all?

Did anyone at the MD DLLR or MD Board of Accountancy actually read my complaint cover letter
where I asked for help obtaining my documents?
Is ANYONE actually Home?