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Martha Media Media trucks in February park outside the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan where domestic maven Martha Stewart and her former broker Peter Bacanovic stand trial. Stewart is charged with securities fraud, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and making false statements; Bacanovic with conspiracy, obstruction of justice, making false statements and false documents, and perjury—all stemming from a sale of Imclone Systems stock that Stewart made on Dec. 27, 2001.

By Simon Eskow

New York— Sole practitioner Judith Penney is hawkish on protecting her clients’ private information, as all CPAs tend to be.

But last year, she discovered almost incidentally that her tax services provider had begun to use a technical support contractor overseas, and she started to lose sleep over it.

“About three months ago, I picked up the phone with a question, and as I started talking to them (her tax services provider), I became curious,” Penney said. “I said, ‘Where are you?’ and they said they were in India, and I was a little nervous. As tax season got closer…I started getting up in the middle of the night thinking about privacy.”

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