$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 the employees that were part of the scandal were found guilty. Bernard Ebbers was found guilty of Securities fraud,…
Society's awareness of the crimes of theft and fraud against the elderly have come to the forefront because of media and social awareness. Criminal cases have been publicized to show the extent of these crimes. One criminal case involving the financial abuse of an elderly individual occurred on January 2, 2017, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Christopher Strose was arrested for stealing more than sixty thousand dollars from his grandfather. “Thirty three year old Christopher Strose was…
I found some existing case literature I thought you might find an interesting compliment for your forum's summary. EEO offenses aren't in my bailiwick so I was curious about international enforcement of the violation. There was a federal case prosecuted out of the Eastern District of Virginia: US v. Kolon Industries, Inc. Kolon is a South Korean company which competes with Dupont in the manufacture of synthetic fiber which Dupont has successfully marketed as Kevlar. Over a period of many…
The field of law enforcement in America has seen numerous changes and challenges over the last century from the radio communications equipment, the advent of the automobile and their employment in patrol practices, to modern advanced smart phones that can employ combined technologies that can triangulate with near precision accuracy the location of gun fire and then notify an officer through an app on his or hers smart phone. The continuously changing security environment over the years since…
After Queen Elizabeth died, James I rose to become king of England on July 25, 1903. He was a strong supporter of Shakespeare’s company and called them to perform for the court thirteen or more times a year. On account of King James’s robust advocacy of the company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men changed the company’s name to The King’s Men (Chrisp and Teague 48). The King’s Men performed at the Blackfriars Theatre in winter and at the Globe Theatre in summer (Boyce 351). The main reason for this…
I have an ongoing passion for criminology and psychology within the classroom, I enjoy watching crime programmes and one of my favourites is criminal minds, I find this very interesting and educational. I have always been interested in criminology, I love learning how different techniques and methods are used for solving crimes this is something I intend to further my knowledge in, at university. Studying criminology will develop my understanding of the consequences of a crime and its effect on…
database and product roadmaps are private and confidential, a computer forensics is needed to assist in protecting and lock down the potential leak of sensitive data. If such incident happens, he will help to uncover the person responsible. 2) Criminal fraud…
How is our information being accessed? If you feel uncomfortable knowing how easy it access your internet history, there are more serious cases where computers have been hacked into, and the user has been completely unaware of the illegal activity happening at the time. What methods are being used to get this information? Well it’s quite easy actually. Here are just a few threats that put our internet privacy at risk: Cookie proliferation: The invisible cookie software agents that track your…
Home Depot appropriately handled its data breach crisis through the company’s quick acting with an initial statement to the general public and through crisis management emails sent to its customers. In Home Depot’s initial statement spokeswoman Paula Drake reassured their customers that the company had been actively working with forensics and security teams since they had become aware of a potential breach (Li, 2014). According to W. Timothy Coombs, Ph.D. in his research paper Crisis Management…
The future has many aspects in store in term of white-collar crimes. The first characteristic of white-collar crime the future has in store is that if it continues to cost the United States billions of dollars each year, the U.S. justice department will develop new ideas and techniques to combat it. The second aspect the future also has is that Wall Street top executives will be held responsible for crimes committing within their corporation with or without their prior knowledge in the future…