BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut: The wife of the man responsible for the largest accounting fraud of the 1990s has filed for divorce - but federal prosecutors say the timing suggests that they're trying to avoid paying billions of dollars in penalties, not that their marriage is on the rocks.
Prosecutors note that former Cendant Corp. chairman Walter Forbes sold the family's nearly $6 million, 11,000-square-foot (1,000 square meter), seven-bedroom mansion to his wife, Caren, for $10 in 1999.
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