Remember the hearings on Repo 105 debt hiding scams with Lehman Brothers? How Bill Black called the SEC criminally negligent for letting Lehman Brothers move $50 billion dollars in liabilities temporary off their books with an accounting trick, a Repo 105 transaction?

It seems New York Prosecutors are going to sue Ernst & Young over these accounting gimmicks used to temporarily make a firm look more solvent. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is going after the audit firm in civil court.

Prosecutors in New York are set to file civil fraud charges against accounting firm Ernst & Young LLC over the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, the Wall Street Journal said on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

The suit, led by Andrew Cuomo, could come as early as this week and might seek to impose fines and other penalties, the paper said.

A spokeswoman for Ernst & Young said the company did not comment on speculation and repeated a previous statement made by the firm about its dealings with Lehman Brothers.

"Throughout our period as the auditor of Lehman, we firmly believe our work met all applicable professional standards, applying the rules that existed at the time," the statement said.