SEC sues ex-ADM CFO, alleges accounting fraud

The settlement, along with the company’s efforts to improve and remediate its reporting processes, pave the way for ADM to move out from under the accounting cloud, according to Seth Goldstein, a Morningstar analyst. “To me, once you’re in the phase of settling with regulators that means the light’s at the end of the tunnel and you’re ready to move forward,” Goldstein said in an interview.The suit landed on the same day that the SEC announced that the Chicago-based grain trading giant agreed to pay a $40 mi ...