Oracle corporation shareholder alert: former sec attorney willie briscoe and powers taylor investigate possible breaches of fiduciary duty by officers and directors

Dallas--(business wire)--former united states securities and exchange commission attorney willie briscoe, founder of the briscoe law firm, pllc, and the securities litigation firm of powers taylor llp announce that a federal class action lawsuit has been filed against oracle corporation (“oracle”) (nyse: orcl) and several officers and directors for acts taken during the period of september 16, 2015 and june 1, 2016 (the “class period”). based upon the allegations in the class action, the firms are investigating additional legal claims against the officers and board of directors of oracle. if you are an affected oracle shareholder and want to learn more about the lawsuit or join the action, contact willie briscoe at the briscoe law firm, pllc via email at shareholders@thebriscoelawfirm.com, patrick powers at powers taylor llp via email at shareholder@powerstaylor.com, or call toll free at (877) 728-9607. there is no cost or fee to you. according to the complaint, the defendants are alleged to have violated certain provisions of the securities exchange act of 1934. specifically, the complaint alleges, among other things, that defendants issued materially false and misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) oracle used improper accounting practices to inflate its cloud computing revenues by millions of dollars; (ii) in violation of the sarbanes-oxley act of 2002 and the dodd-frank wall street reform and consumer protection act, oracle had terminated a senior finance manager for raising the company’s improper accounting practices to the attention of her supervisors; and (iii) as a result of the foregoing, oracle’s public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. after the market closed on june 1, 2016, media outlets reported that a former senior finance manager at oracle, svetlana blackburn, had sued the company for terminating her for complaining about improper accounting practices in oracle’s cloud services business. in the complaint, blackburn accused oracle’s upper management of trying to push her to “fit square data into round holes” to make oracle cloud services’ results look better. the lawsuit accused oracle of violating the anti-retaliation provisions of the sarbanes-oxley act and the dodd-frank act and alleged that blackburn was terminated on october 15, 2015, just one month after the alleged wrongdoing began, and two months after she received a positive performance review. oracle stock dropped significantly immediately following this announcement. the briscoe law firm, pllc is a full service business litigation, commercial transaction, and public advocacy firm with more than 20 years of experience in complex litigation and transactional matters. powers taylor llp is a boutique litigation law firm that handles a variety of complex business litigation matters, including claims of investor and stockholder fraud, shareholder oppression, shareholder derivative suits, and security class actions.
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