From InfoWorld: Oracle plans to sue whistleblower Svetlana Blackburn for malicious prosecution, the company said Thursday.
On Wednesday, Blackburn -- a senior finance manager in Oracle's cloud business -- said in a lawsuit she was terminated from her job for refusing to go along with cloud-computing accounting principles she considered unlawful.
Blackburn alleges that upper management was trying to fit "square data into round holes" in a bid to boost the financial reports for Oracle's cloud services business that would be "paraded" before company leaders and investors.
"We are confident that all our cloud accounting is proper and correct," Oracle spokesperson Deborah Hellinger said via email. "This former employee worked at Oracle for less than a year and did not work in the accounting group. She was terminated for poor performance, and we intend to sue her for malicious prosecution."
Blackburn, a certified public accountant, received a positive performance review in August 2015. Soon afterward, however, her supervisors "charted a course that veered from legal, ethical and company standards," according to her legal complaint against Oracle. Her employment was terminated on Oct. 15 after she "continued to resist and warn of the accounting improprieties," the complaint said.
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