Essay on Insurance Frauds

Lernout & Hauspie (L&H) was the world’s leading provider of speech and language technology products, solutions, and services to businesses worldwide. Both Microsoft and Intel invested millions in L&H. however, accounting scandals and fraud allegations sent the company’s stock crashing, and forced the firm to seek bankruptcy protection in Belgium and in the US. Selected information was gathered concerning L&H operations: • Consolidated revenue increased 184% from 1997 fiscal year to 1998 fiscal…

Greetings everyone! Today, I’ll tell you more about the famous billionaire Donald J. Trump! I’ll be talking about these subjects:  Donald Trump’s private life  Donald Trump’s business career  Donald Trump’s political career Donald Trump’s early life: Donald John Trump was born on June 14th, 1946, making him 69 years old. He was born as the fourth of five children to Fred Trump, an American citizen of German descent, and Anne nee MacLeod, a Scottish woman. Donald Trump was born and raised in…

One would be a Special Agent whom as which would be “investigating violations of laws relating to financial crimes such as credit card and access device fraud as well as computer based attacks on the nation’s banking” (Careers) for starters. The Uniform Division of the Service has many units and teams under it including the canine unit, Emergency Response Team, Counter sniper Team, Motorcade Support Unit…

John Ramsey was the president and chief executive officer of Access Graphics (a company that grossed over $1 Billion) and it is estimated that his net worth was $6.4 million as of May 1, 1996 (pedophileophobia.com, n.d.). This would have made John Ramsey and his family very attractive targets. An attractive target can be defined as “how appealing a potential target is to a criminally inclined person” (Karmen, 2013, p.491). When the community knows how much a family could be worth because of the…

In Shakespeare’s King Lear there are many themes and motifs that are intrinsically related. Specifically, the motif of clothing in the play reflects the theme of identity, for clothes are often used as a key element in disguises, altering the perception of the wearer’s identity, even to those that know them well. Clothing first reflects a change in identity in Act 1, wherein Kent dons different clothes to assume a disguise. After King Lear orders him from the kingdom, it is necessary for him to…

The FBI states, in regards to white-collar crime as, “These crimes are characterized by deceit, concealment, or violation of trust and are not dependent on the application or threat of physical force or violence. The motivation behind these crimes is financial—to obtain or avoid losing money, property, or services or to secure a personal or business advantage.” This definition is more like today’s definition of white-collar crime. However, in our book, Sutherland coined the phrase for…

I believe that Bernard Madoff did not work alone. I also believe that he had help in creating and sustaining his Ponzi scheme. I do believe that this represents a conflict of interest. I believe that Bernard Madoff did not work alone. It is hard for me to image one individual working alone to create such the scheme. I believe that Bernard Madoff worked with someone, maybe his wife, to keep the money and paperwork shady. This also adds to my belief that he had help in creating and sustaining…

The Government against Two: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg’s Trial begins with a synopsis of the trial against accused spy Brian Patrick Regan in January 2003. Regan was accused of espionage and providing classified information to Iraq, Libya and China and became the first espionage defendant to face execution since Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in 1953. The author, Atossa Alavi, describes the correlation between the new war on terrorism in the Regan case and the era of the Cold War in the Rosenberg…

What is Injustice? Learners Dictionary defines Injustice as, a situation in which a person or a group of people are ignored. Ronald Cotton is a real-life example of the term injustice, because he spent eleven years of his life incarcerated for a crime he simply did not commit, only to be compensated $5,000 for the mistake the state of North Carolina made. But, how does the Criminal Justice System miss a detail so important that it determines whether a person is guilty or innocent? The fact of…

Dilip Chitre creates a stark impression of the isolation of old age in his poem ‘Father Returning Home’ by showing his fathers’ estrangement from society and his own family. Chitre conveys this isolation by using literary devices such as similes and repetition, and addressing themes such as modernity vs tradition. The poem begins when a father is waiting outside for a train which will take him home. We know this as it says ‘My father travels on the late evening train’. Already by labelling the…