Electoral fraud

charged, it will include Purchase Order Fraud, which is a federal crime (FBI, 2014). The consequences for that in The United States can be incarceration, fines, probation, or a combination of all three (Fichtelberg, 2008). This crime can be charged by the International Criminal Court. There is no jury at the International Criminal Court. A panel, made up of three judges, will decide if the defendant is guilty and what the punishment will be. They also have the ability to sentence them to…

Small Business Fraud Fraud has become a major issue in the world in which we live today. Many would argue that fraud is quickly becoming a norm in today’s society. This abstract and false view on fraud has made its way into the business world and has created an idea that fraud is an acceptable and necessary part of living, specifically within small businesses. The unique aspect of small business fraud, is that the fraudster is possibly an employee within the company. To simply state that small…

Healthcare Compliance Programs Lawyers The concept of healthcare compliance programs began in 1997 with a publication by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) within the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). That first program was designed for individuals and small group physician practices. Since that time, there have been an entire series of HHS OIG compliance guidelines addressing other segments of the health care industry that includes: nursing facilities, HHS research grants…

financial statement fraud schemes. Retrieved from https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=common+financial+statement+fraud+schemes+by+jamal+ahmad Cernusca, L. (2011). Ethics in accounting: The consequences of the Enron scandal. Agricultural Management, 13(3), 35-42. Retrieved from http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=2&sid=59e976ea-caa3-4b98-a718-e29420909cda%40sessionmgr114&hid=120&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#AN=67096081&db=bth Giroux, G. (2008). What went wrong? Accounting fraud and…

In creating these programs, the NIJ uses a comprehensive process to make valid technology programs for the criminal justice system. This process uses the research, development, testing, and evaluation approach to “ensure that the NIJ’s research portfolios are aligned to the best technology needs of the criminal justice community,” (Justice, 2009). For example, the NIJ formed a working group to study some of the disadvantages of the praised specialized database, the AFIS. The Automated…

Scheme” is an investment swindle in which some early investors are paid off with money put up by later ones in order to encourage more and bigger risks (“Ponzi Scheme”, n.d.). Essentially, the money collected from newer victims (investors) of the fraud is paid to earlier victims to provide a veneer of legitimacy (“The math of Ponzi Schemes”, n.d.). Charles Ponzi (Figure 1), born in 1882 emigrated from Italy in 1903 to the United States. In 1918, after being convicted and serving time for a…

The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga, is a novel that focuses on the life of Balram, the son of an Indian rickshaw driver. Balram is writing a letter to Wen Jiabao, an important Chinese official who has embarked on a diplomatic visit to India. He decides to tell Jiabao his life story in an attempt to educate the man about Indian entrepreneurship, because he truly believes that his story is more accurate than the political accounts he is sure the Chinese official will hear. Balram chronologically…

The Catcher in the Rye written by J.D. Salinger, the book describes a young man,; Holden Caulfield.; After getting kicked out of pencey Holden has a fight with his roommate in which he is influenced into leaving the school two days early, he decides to spend those two days in New York before going back home meeting up with teachers, prostitutes, and his sister too. The book shows how a teen faces challenges of life. The author of the book, J.D Salinger, uses symbols such as, the F-uck you…

The documentary “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” deals with “one of the most America's largest corporate bankruptcy”, as it reports the documentary itself. In fact, few years before the bankrupt, Enron was the 7th largest corporation in the USA that took 16 years to go from 10 billion assets to approximately 65 billion, but in only 24 days it went bankrupt. The movie describes and analyses how the company grew and then collapsed quickly and surrounded by a gigantic scandal that can be seen…

Dellway Investments Ltd & others v NAMA & others Introduction The appellants: DELLWAY INVESTMENTS LIMITED and Others The respondent: NATIONAL ASSET MANAGEMENT AGENCY and Others NAMA was set up to take over all the ‘bad loans’ from the banks when the financial crisis happened. The Government then put money into the banks to help them and to fix the balance sheets. McKillen took NAMA to court because NAMA took over all of the McKillen loans from the banks. McKillen said however that his loans…