It is very hard to say that SOX would prevented the scandal but they would have being exposed sooner because of the Sarbanes-Oxley section and titles rules and regulation such as; Titles II the auditors partner rotation; Title III, the responsibility or reporting accurate financial corporate reports. They reported depreciation expenses of garbage trucks as a salvage values, and subjective to other assets that did not have any value. Title IV the financial disclosures of financial reports was overstated or understated in some reports to inflates a high profit margin. The Titles VIII, the alteration and destruction of records that would protect the