Independent Accounting Firm Ratification
Company: Riot
What the later record shows
Outcome not yet confirmed
No passage states whether GHP Horwath was ratified for, or audited, fiscal year 2014. P2 says only that the relationship ended in January 2017.
Checked November 9, 2026 against filings, releases and reporting published after the claim was made. Quotes are verbatim from the linked documents.
The claim, verbatim
GHP Horwath, P.C. appointed as independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year ending December 31, 2014
Source (primary)
Riot DEF 14A filed 2014-04-30 (SEC EDGAR, sec_filing)
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Quote: “Ratification of the appointment of GHP Horwath, P.C. as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the financial statements audit for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2014”
How we checked this
Checked on October 12, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The proxy statement says the Board appointed GHP Horwath, P.C. as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2014. It also says the appointment was submitted to shareholders for ratification at the June 25, 2014 meeting.
Confirmed in the source:
- GHP Horwath, P.C. was appointed as Venaxis, Inc.'s independent registered public accounting firm: on March 4, 2014 the Board unanimously approved the Audit Committee's recommendation to appoint it
- The appointment covers the fiscal year ending December 31, 2014
What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1167419/000107997314000293/appy_def14a.htm) in full (118,257 characters, retrieved September 27, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Riot DEF 14A filed 2014-04-30
Quote: “Ratification of the appointment of GHP Horwath, P.C. as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the financial statements audit for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2014”