Forensic Accountant Mike Spindler to testify as a rebuttal witness in Depp-Heard’s defamation case.
Mike Spindler is a forensic accountant. He had testified in court for the first on Tuesday, May 2, 2022, and was asked to analyze Depp’s earnings.In his first appearance in the courts, Mike Spindler had stated that Johnny Depp had lost around $40 million in Earnings.
Who Is Mike Spindler? Wikipedia Biography On Johnny Depp Accountant
Spindler is a skilled forensic accountant who has expertise of over four decades in the industry.
According to his LinkedIn, he is serving as the Senior Managing Director for the B. Riley Financial group since January 2015. In past, he has worked for Navigant, California Society of CPAs/CalCPA Education Foundation, Capstone Advisory Group, and Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LP.
Spindler is a graduate of the University at Albany. He had passed out with a bachelor of science in business and accounting in 1981.
He has extensive experience in a variety of dispute consulting services, with a focus on litigation support, fraud investigations, and anti-fraud program consulting.
Mike Spindler Has Testified As A Rebuttal Witness
Earlier Splinder had revealed that Johnny Depp had lost around $40 million. He had used the actor’s earnings in 2017 as a baseline to analyze the loss. It was reported that Depp had earned around $17.5 million the year.
He said that after Heard’s oped in December 2018, he studied trial exhibits, reports, testimonies, and earlier accounting records to quantify the actor’s loss.
On his first trial, he had elaborated: “It’s essentially taking a look at business records and accounting records in connection to some sort of business issue.”
Mike Spindlers Assessment Of Amber Heard’s Future Earnings
Splinder has explained that Katherine Arnold’s assessment of Heard’s damages was pulled out of her arse. As a result, he claims that her assessment is unsupported and unreasonable as there is no analysis anchored in facts or in data.
The expert has said: “Something that is anchored in facts, taking a look at historical compensation, as opposed to speculating on future compensation”