The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged James T. Adams, a certified public accountant and the former chief risk officer at Deloitte LLP, with violating the auditor independence rules. The SEC found that, in 2009 and 2010, Adams accepted tens of thousands of dollars in casino markers (a transaction in which a casino customer receives gaming chips drawn against a line of credit) while he was the advisory partner on Deloitte’s audit of the corporation that owns the casino. Adams agreed to settle the charges with a two-year suspension from practicing as an accountant on behalf of any publicly traded company or other entity regulated by the SEC.