Electoral fraud

Inside the building there were 20 to 30-year-old working making millions of dollars a year. Madoff “company” was run by Madoff family members like his two sons and brother. Where the actual fraud was taking place was in the 17th floor by Frank DiPascali. DiPascali would get word to Madoff which made him important. Fraud is another key term used in Chapter 12 that this documentary uses. Madoff was getting money through false advertisement of what he was doing. After statements were printed…

Deception is an ordinary and ubiquitous fact of everyday life, as both verbal and non-verbal social behavior of human nature (1). Earliest representations of feigned madness appear within texts as old as the Bible (2) and the first reference to malingering from medicine can be found in “On Feigned Disease and the detection of them” by Galen in 2nd century AD (3). An individual’s deceptive behavior becomes clinically significant when it is encountered in medical settings if the individual is a…

sometimes people perform Main Street ideas and actions, but the character is overall white collar focused. In The Big Short by Adam McKay, the antagonist and protagonists are both white collar, but one of the four protagonists has blue collar morals. In this movie, the four protagonists attempt to profit off of the big banks because the banks gave out too many subprime mortgages to people who couldn’t pay it back. Mark Baum (Steve Carell) illustrates his blue collar morals by not agreeing to…

financial statements are free of material misstatement whether caused by error or fraud. The Auditor has standards of fieldwork that should be used as a guide to fulfill their responsibility. These standards are covered in SAS 99. Fraud is the intentional act that results in a material misstatement in financial statements that are the subject of an audit. There are two types of misstatements relevant to the consideration of fraud, Misstatements arising from fraudulent financial reporting and…

Have you ever been hacked? Not in the “Haha I took a funny picture on your account hacked,” but the scary moment when you realize your passwords have been changed and you can’t access your bank account anymore? If you haven’t, count yourself lucky, because Security Researchers state that almost half of the population of the United States has been hacked, or have had their private information leaked to the web. Many times you don’t even know it’s happened. Companies don’t like sharing information…

During the time period of 1990 to 2000 financial statement fraud was pretty common. Various firms were engaged in financial fraud without thinking that the investors, and other stakeholders rely on those financial statements and the opinion of the auditor on those financial statements. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was created because of the multiple accounting scandals of WorldCom & Enron in July 30, 2002. Because of that the investors lose billions of dollars, this negatively impacted financial stock…

Throughout this course we have learned that there is a clear connection between organized crime and public officials, such as law enforcement, lawyers, judges and even the president. But corruption is not only prevalent with politicians and public officials. It also instills legitimate businessman as well. The reality is that organized criminals, legitimate businesspeople, and government officials are equal players in a marketplace of corruption (Lyman, 2015). The organized crime and…

Button, M., & Gee, J. (2012). The scale of health-care fraud: A global evaluation. Security Journal, 25(1), 76-87. This article points out the seriousness of health care fraud by providing the findings from a survey of fraud and error loss measurement in the health care areas of six different countries. Health care fraud is a blue collar crime that has seen a rise in recent times. This article points out that the legal definition of fraud; is defined as false representation abuse of position…

it onto Wall Street in December 1986 (Ciulla). In March of the next year, Minkow’s shares were $64 million and later raised to $110 million the month after (Ciulla). However, a year later, Minkow’s credit card fraud became evident leading to his downfall and conviction of 57 counts of fraud and 25 years in prison (Ciulla). Once Minkow’s scheme was discovered, investors had already lost over $100 million dollars’…

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…