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    Identity Theft Speech

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    denied? I know I have enough for this item I’ve been tracking my pay cheque for months. After some time-consuming effort, I realised the only explanation for the insufficient funds is that I have been a victim of identity theft. Identity theft and fraud both interchangeable terms refer to the crime in which someone…

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    “In 1997, after Cosmo became a licensed stockbroker, he was arrested and later pleaded guilty to mail fraud related to a stock investment scheme. He was sentenced in 1999 to 21 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $177,000 plus interest and to undergo therapy for gambling. His broker's license was revoked in 2000 and he made restitution payments of $11,000, records show” (Amon, Dymski, Icantalupo, Maier, 2007).…

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    and they started losing and their actions were no longer serving their interest after this no theory can justify there act of exploiting people. THEORY/THEORIES TO CRITICIZE THEIR ACTION Fraud they have done with the people can never be forgotten. Even after so many years victims are still dealing with that fraud. What Jordon Belfort and his company Stratton Oakmont did was ethically wrong. According to me the thories that I would like apply to criticize their actions are: • Utilitarianism •…

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    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…

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    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…

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    British Literature 12 November 2016 Election Fraud may be Over Exaggerated The definition of voter fraud is the illegal interference with the process of an election. Looking at the history in the United States it does reflect periods of time where different forms of election fraud took place. It seems that over the past two decades during every major election cycle at least one of the candidates will bring up the issue of possible election fraud. In particular when he or she is down in the…

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    annual returns in these short-term trades were mainly ordinary income, which is why it made Ascot attractive mostly to foundations, hospitals and religious groups. If it so happened that $50 billion was lost, as Madoff claims, it would be the largest fraud in history. Madoff was one of of the first jailed investors of the 2008 market meltdown. Some may say that this was a once in a lifetime event, while other’s gasp in astonishment on how this could have ever gone under the radar. Either way 50…

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    In 2009 in America, Bernard Madoff, one of the most famous business men in the United States and a part-builder of the largest financial pyramid in American history, was convicted. It was one of the most known and big investment scandals in the history of Wall Street. Bernard Madoff, the founder of the Financial Pyramid, which attracted a huge sum around $50 billion, threw the USA in shock. Since the mid-60s of the last century, the name Madoff was synonymous with scrupulous honesty and…

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    mistress while his father was trying to convince Eddie’s first wife to to sue Eddie for fraud and get her divorce settlement voided. These conflicts are said to be what contributed to Antar’s weak financial performance in 1987. Eddie and his son started to hear rumors of a hostile takeover by investors who had no idea that the company was a fraud. Eddie and his son Sam feared that the takeover would result in his fraud being…

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    reports of fraud, the department completed 52,930 investigations and 425 people were convicted of welfare fraud. Fraud or misrepresentation (not defined) was found on 10,789 cases (Rhode). When people falsify their documents like Jackie, they don’t realize that the government has probably caught them and are building a case against that person. Criminal Law experts state that “State welfare statutes and general criminal statutes (such as theft) impose penalties for conviction of welfare fraud…

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