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    but Villechuet said his name to some people that he trusted. For example, he told Casey and Casey questioned Madoff work and Villechuet responded spilt strike conversion work. Casey went back and asked Harry to investigate where he learned about the Ponzi scheme. Harry Markpolo contacted the SEC where he wrote an eight-page memo. Casey then went to Michael Ocrant where he told him about Madoff and Ocrant thought it was a good story. After this Jeffrey Tucker wen to the lipstick building to talk…

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    Bernard Madoff Essay

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    Bernard Madoff was blamed for extortion and formation of a Ponzi plan which prompt a $65 billion venture misfortune for several investors across the world. He understood that Wall Street was the best riches creation engine the people had ever known. Madoff was the first one to perceive that computer technology will give an intend to democratize Wall Street by securing a framework that made securities exchanging substantially more productive and much less expensive. Examining the instance of…

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    The Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme was indeed a despicable intractably woven web of deception. He swindled millions of dollars from both the rich and the struggling middle class for more than 50 years. Madoff was money driven to the point that not even his friends and family was speared from his lies. People are driven by money, therefore, there will always be crimes as a result of the pursuit of this most tempting symbol of wealth. However, this is also the reason authority institutions are…

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    Bernie Madoff Case Study

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    organization, and educational institutions of their entrusted and invested funds (Shafritz, Russell, & Borick, 2013). In essence it was the SEC that enabled Madoff to further build his Ponzi scheme, which resulted with Madoff defrauding investors of an estimated $65 billion; the eventual downfall of Madoff’s Ponzi scheme resulted with Madoff receiving a 150-year prison term and ordered to repay his investors through restitution (Shafritz, Russell, & Borick,…

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    Bernard Madoff Case Study

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    Street, he was widely loved, and he even formed close bonds with a few of his clients. None of them could have possibly known that Bernard Madoff was perpetrating the largest Ponzi scheme in United States history. Madoff swindled $65 billion from all of his clients ("Bernie Madoff : Scamming of America - The $50 Billion Ponzi Scheme "). He used his smarts, trust gained from the community, and charm to pull off the largest scheme of the century. Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC began…

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    and Bernard, informally known as Bernie, Madoff was serving as the NASDAQ chairman. Bernie climbed the economic ladder, eventually being in control of millions of investments in 2008 until it was found out that he had been the head of the largest Ponzi scheme in America. Madoff’s case is not only important to the how expansive it was, but how Madoff managed to avoid being detected despite investigations against him starting in 1999. Furthermore, Madoff’s case stands as a prime example of how…

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    Case study Earlier come to cooking delightful five-star cuisine in hotels or restaurants, a celebrity chef Jeff Henderson was cooked something different fully dangerous is about cocaine’s. As a teenager life, he had man-made his own cocaine powder and sold the finished product in his native Los Angeles community. By the time he was aged 19, Henderson sold the finished product with earnings that would periodically total up to US $35,000 per week. He was running his own cocaine enterprise on that…

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    “Fake it ‘til you make it” sadly doesn’t always work, especially when what’s being faked is Jesus’s brother’s ossuary. “Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in the Holy Land” by Nina Burleigh was published in 2008, describes the journey and struggle of validating this ossuary. James Ossuary is the main focus of this book, and all of the experts and millionaires that want to have it in their collection. The story of the discovery, travel, and testing of the ossuary is told…

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    The Big Short Analysis

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    Analyzing The Big Short The whole housing market is built like a giant Jenga tower. The AAA mortgages are at the top of the tower while the BBB’s are the lowest base of the tower. The AAA’s and AA mortgages were to make so much money that the extra money was to trickle down to the BBB’s at the base. This information is in the book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine written by Michael Lewis. He has written many best-selling non-fiction books like Moneyball and The Blind Side both were…

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    White-Collar Crime

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    The term “ White -Collar Crime, “ carries many definitions that have changed throughout the decades in the United States. These definitions change with perception, participation, and the addition of actions to the term. White-collar crime carries a general perception of offenders, who are generally professional individuals since they have the knowledge required to execute these complex crimes. Examples of these crimes include fraud, price fixing, money laundering, and embezzlement . Although…

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