I would assume that it's a lot of books, and that they are very complicated books, but, er… isn't there somebody with a calculator going through these companies' books? Somewhere? Sufficiently motivated teams of lawyers can comb through documents of incomprehensible magnitude in days; surely sufficiently motivated accountants can do the same.

Holy shit.

I don't yet understand why "May you live in interesting times" is a curse, but I have a feeling that I'm about to.