Appointment of Independent Auditors
Company: Riot
What the later record shows
Not a promise: a reported event
The claim reports a stockholder approval that had already happened, so it is not a commitment. Its text gives no exact vote date. A later passage confirms Marcum audited fiscal 2019.
“The Audit Committee previously retained Marcum LLP to serve as the Company’s independent public accounting firm and to perform such audit services for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.”
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Checked October 10, 2026 against filings, releases and reporting published after the claim was made. Quotes are verbatim from the linked documents.
The claim, verbatim
Marcum, LLP was appointed as the independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2019
Source (primary)
Riot 8-K filed 2019-10-28 (SEC EDGAR, sec_filing)
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Quote: “the appointment of Marcum, LLP, as the Corporation's independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2019 was approved by the stockholders”
How we checked this
Checked on October 11, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The 8-K reports that at the October 23, 2019 annual meeting, stockholders ratified the appointment of Marcum, LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2019.
Confirmed in the source:
- Marcum, LLP was appointed as Riot Blockchain's independent registered public accounting firm
- The appointment covered the year ending December 31, 2019
What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1167419/000107997319000542/riot_8k-102419.htm) in full (5,607 characters, retrieved September 13, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Riot 8-K filed 2019-10-28
Quote: “the appointment of Marcum, LLP, as the Corporation's independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2019 was approved by the stockholders”