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Issuer:     Pacific Coast Oil Trust (—)
CIK:        0001538822
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-07-17T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001104659-25-068702
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.85
Item codes: 4.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Pacific Coast Oil Trust auditor PKF resigns; cites allegations and missing ARO documentation
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- PKF resigned on July 11, 2025, without completing audits for years 2019-2024 or reviews for 2023-2025.
- PKF flagged former employee allegations against PCEC that may materially impact fairness/reliability of Trust's financials.
- PKF did not receive requested documentation supporting asset retirement obligation estimates from PCEC.
- Trustee's investigation hindered by PCEC's failure to loan sufficient funds; Trust expects to miss Q2 2025 10-Q deadline.
- Trust has not yet identified a successor independent auditor.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1538822/000110465925068702/0001104659-25-068702-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1538822/000110465925068702/tm2521155d1_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-068702

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