Case Study: The Unusual Suspect
According to the case The Unusual Suspect, Diann had committed an embezzlement fraud that she pleaded guilty to embezzling approximately $500,000 from her employer and she was sentenced for 18 months in Florida prison. Diann's fraud scheme is a form of an anti-organizational crime, and she had committed several types of the fraud schemes such as: First, she started to mistakenly pay for her vacation expense through her company’s account, Second, she called the payroll company and told the company to make changes to her salary range. Third, she made duplications of her bonus checks. Diann also committed fraudulent acts to her employer by misclassifying expenses. For instance, she went to luxurious restaurants with her husband or close friends, but she claimed …show more content…
The major factors that impacted Diann’s decision to commit frauds were because she had already adapted to the expensive lifestyle and as her level of responsibilities on her company had moved up, she found out that it was fine for her to commit common fraud schemes. As she became more and more greedy, she started to lose her ability to decide for what is right and what is wrong and what she should and should not do as a professional. If I was Diann, I would not commit the same mistake as she did and I would pay back all the money the cashier has mistaken charged from my company’s account immediately. Because I believe that I had overcome a lot of obstacles in my life such as spending more than 4 years in university in order to finish my BA degree. I tried so hard in order to get a good job in this case as a manager. Therefore, I would not risk myself to lose everything and to be sentenced in the prison by committing frauds. Especially, I have my own principle that honesty is one of the keys to a big
According to the case The Unusual Suspect, Diann had committed an embezzlement fraud that she pleaded guilty to embezzling approximately $500,000 from her employer and she was sentenced for 18 months in Florida prison. Diann's fraud scheme is a form of an anti-organizational crime, and she had committed several types of the fraud schemes such as: First, she started to mistakenly pay for her vacation expense through her company’s account, Second, she called the payroll company and told the company to make changes to her salary range. Third, she made duplications of her bonus checks. Diann also committed fraudulent acts to her employer by misclassifying expenses. For instance, she went to luxurious restaurants with her husband or close friends, but she claimed …show more content…
The major factors that impacted Diann’s decision to commit frauds were because she had already adapted to the expensive lifestyle and as her level of responsibilities on her company had moved up, she found out that it was fine for her to commit common fraud schemes. As she became more and more greedy, she started to lose her ability to decide for what is right and what is wrong and what she should and should not do as a professional. If I was Diann, I would not commit the same mistake as she did and I would pay back all the money the cashier has mistaken charged from my company’s account immediately. Because I believe that I had overcome a lot of obstacles in my life such as spending more than 4 years in university in order to finish my BA degree. I tried so hard in order to get a good job in this case as a manager. Therefore, I would not risk myself to lose everything and to be sentenced in the prison by committing frauds. Especially, I have my own principle that honesty is one of the keys to a big