---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001477932-23-007780"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WHLT"
cik: "0001025771"
company_name: "CHASE PACKAGING CORP"
filed_at: "2023-10-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-09T17:57:01.150059+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Chase Packaging replaces auditor Heaton & Company with GreenGrowth CPAs

## Summary
- Heaton & Company resigned as auditor effective Oct 16, 2023; no disagreements or reportable events.
- GreenGrowth CPAs engaged as new independent accountant to audit FY 2023 and review Q3 2023.
- Prior auditor's reports for 2022 and 2021 were unqualified, no adverse opinions.
- Board approved the change; no prior consultations with GreenGrowth.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001477932-23-007780
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WHLT
- cik: 0001025771
- company_name: CHASE PACKAGING CORP
- filed_at: 2023-10-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1025771/000147793223007780/0001477932-23-007780-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1025771/000147793223007780/cpka_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001477932-23-007780.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Heaton & Company, PLLC resigned as auditor of CHASE PACKAGING CORP.
  - Action: resignation
  - Auditor: Heaton & Company, PLLC
  source text: Effective October 16, 2023, the client-auditor relationship between Chase Packaging Corporation (the “Company”) and Heaton & Company, PLLC (the “Former Auditor”) was terminated upon the resignation of the Former Auditor as the Company’s independent registered accounting firm.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1025771/000147793223007780/0001477932-23-007780-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  CHASE PACKAGING CORP engaged GreenGrowth CPAs as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: GreenGrowth CPAs
  source text: Effective October 17, 2023, the Company engaged GreenGrowth CPAs (“GreenGrowth”) as its principal independent public accountant to review the Company’s financial statements as of and for the period ending September 30, 2023 and to audit the Company’s financial statements for the year ending December 31, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1025771/000147793223007780/0001477932-23-007780-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.