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Stratton Oakmont, Inc. was a Long Island, New York based "over-the-counter” brokerage company founded by Jordan Belfort. Stratton Oakmont is one of the well known and most controversial stock scandal of all times. Jordan Belfort also known as “wolf of wall street” was a stockbroker who ended up doing a big stock manipulation. He looted his clients by underwriting an initial public offer(IPO) for a company that doesn’t exist then they used pump and dump scheme to sell its self-owned stocks by…

(Cheeseman 2013) In the case of United States v. Bhagat. Atul Bhagat was an employed by the Nvidia Corporation (Nvidia), had just successfully competed for a multi-million dollar deal to develop a video game console named( X-Box) for the Microsoft Corporation. Upon receiving the contract, Nvidia's Chief Executive Officer sent out a company-wide e-mail to every employee notifying them of the contract award. And letting all employees know to keep the X-Box information confidential. They…

problem (possibly having them transferred). If reporting the abuse to the harasser’s supervisors doesn’t work, it may be time to file a complaint. To file a complaint, you must contact either the Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC) or the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (PHRC). Your company is not allowed to retaliate against you for filing a sexual harassment complaint. Be aware that there are time restrictions on filing sexual harassment complaints. Usually you only have 180…

A) According to the book, if Henry doesn’t agree with the transaction he doesn’t have to be a shareholder in the new Marble Meats Corporation (MMC) that is formed after the merger with Natural Farms. Shareholders Appraisal Rights mean that Henry has the right to be paid the fair value of the MMC shares he owed on the date of the transaction. The fair value of the shares is calculated as the value on the day before the date of the stockholder voting for the transaction. Getting paid the appraisal…

The cognomen Madoff has been stained with deception as it relates to American investment fraud history. Bernie Madoff masterminded a modern day Ponzi scheme, which was the biggest investment fraud known to Wall Street that amounted to $65 billion swindled from investors for a 20 year period (Graybow & McCool, 2009). Madoff, 77 years old, is currently serving a 150-year prison term at Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan; 150 years was the maximum sentence for his crimes (Henriques…

TWhy do you think that people would steal art? To get money, to help a friend, to just get attention? Everyone has there reasons that we might never know. That is one of the challenges authorities have, trying to figure out why people steal the ear that they steal. Another major challenge is having to locate the art and the people who stole it. The masterpiece Rembrandt's Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee was stolen. It had a five million dollar reward for whoever could find it. At the…

the same job” (Snow & Snow, 2016). The Equal Pay Act was “the first national labor standard to address the practice of women getting paid less than men simply because they were women” (Task Force, 2013). According to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, The Equal Pay Act requires that equal wages be paid to men and women who perform jobs that require substantially equal skill, effort and responsibility in the same establishment under similar working conditions. “The Act laid the foundation…

Every public and private employment is subject to the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), which prohibits against sexual harassment in the workplace. Each organization’s workers, including upper managements, managers, supervisors, and non-supervisory employees are subject to the FEHA’s anti-harassment provisions. All employees are expected to behave professionally and respectfully while interacting with others without regard to classification, job title, or function. Discriminatory or…

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 states that, “It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer … to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual’s race, color, sex, or national origin.” Its goal was to create equality of employment by removing obstacles facing certain classes, such as women. If a law firm had a dress code requiring women in receptionist and secretarial…

On July 21, 2002, WorldCom, one of the nations leading companies in Telecommunications, filed for bankruptcy and exposed an $11-billion-dollar fraud, making it one of the largest in all time. Spearheading the scandal were six employees, Bernard Ebbers the CEO, Scott Sullivan the CFO, David Myers the accounting controller, Buddy Yates the Accounting Director, and Betty Vinson and Troy Norman the accountants. The scandal went to federal trial, and after six days of jury deliberation, all six of…