One of Fresno's biggest suburban home builders is firing counter claims at two whistleblowers who came from the top of Granville's financial team.
On the afternoon of Wednesday, April 8, Aleksey Dvorkin sat down and wrote to the leadership of Granville Homes, one of the largest homebuilders in Fresno, to say that its financial statements could not be relied upon. Granville’s reviewed reports for 2023 and 2024, he wrote, “may have been materially misstated.”
He was the company’s controller, by his own claim the last certified public accountant at Granville, the man whose signature outside accountants were supposed to take as assurance that the books for some of Fresno’s biggest subdivisions were accurate. At the end of the email he asked for whistleblower protection.
He arrived the next morning, according to Fresno County Superior Court documents, to find that his badge no longer opened Granville’s doors. Another employee let him in, where he was ushered into a conference room with Granville’s chief financial officer and the owner of the company, Darius Assemi.
Assemi’s version of the meeting, according to court filings, is a sentence of corporate routine: “on April 9th, I and others met with Dvorkin to discuss his April 8th email and to address his concerns.”
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