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    The Men Who Built America Episode 1 starts 5 Days after the Civil War, which was known as the bloodiest conflict with 6,000 deaths adding one of the greatest, Abraham Lincoln. This episode was about how the railroads had come together. The railroads started with Cornelius Vanderbilt. He began his journey starting with a single ferry that had later on become many ships. His ships were used to transport goods. Vanderbilt later on in life then decided to sell all of ships and invest in railroads.…

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    Brink Bank Failure

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    On January 17, 1950 eleven thief’s planned and robbed the Brinks bank in Boston Massachusetts. An overall of 2.7 million dollars was stolen, 1,218,211.29 dollars were stolen in cash and 1,557,183.83 stolen in orders and checks (Federal Bureau of Investigation). For the thieves the mission was a success. There were many factors that contributed to the success of the robbery. The team had planned the robbery for a year until perfected. They went through many rehearsals. This required equipment, a…

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    Ruth Scrushy Scandal

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    Puerto Rice. The beginning stages of this national news accounting fraud began in 1996, where the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Richard Scrushy, and several of the company’s Chief Financial Officer’s stole more than 2.7 billion which surfaced in 2002 after the company’s CEO/Chairman sold over $100 million dollars in stock just days before reporting a large loss to its shareholders. The year 1996, was the year that started the fraud, when the company missed its earnings target. Although the…

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    In the case of United States vs. Walter Liew, Liew is being charged with over 20 criminal counts, with one of them being misappropriation of trade secrets (Levine). Liew had gotten paid millions of dollars by a Chinese company to apprehend trade secrets of the American company Dupont in order to solidify the company in China. Liew, 56, living in California, received 28 million in order to bribe engineers and other employees for confidential paperwork that the Chinese company wanted. What was the…

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    Securities Act of 1933 was the leading controlling mechanism. The 1933 Act requires that investors obtain appropriate financial information on securities that were offered for public sale. It also bans dishonesty, misrepresentations, and some other fraud in the transaction of securities. The Security Exchange Commission imposes the 1933 Act mandating corporation to have the stock and securities registered that are offered to the public. The registration requirements includes audited financial…

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    Forms Of Digital Crime

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    1. Describe some of the most common forms of digital crime. The four most common forms of digital crime are Tax-refund Fraud, Identity Theft, Theft of Sensitive and Theft of Intellectual Property. I have been the victim of two of these and maybe all four because two of them can happen and connection with the other. For example, back in 2013, around tax time, I received a letter from the IRS office out of Georgia, stating that I owe states for 2012 taxes year. The problem is that I’ve never…

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    reduce waste from collection to disposal while recovering valuable.” Unfortunately, between the years 1992 and 1997 the well-running industry faced some unexpected challenges. Waste Management underwent a major accounting fraud. Dean L. Buntrock, the main driving force behind the fraud, Phillip B. Rooney, Thomas C. Hau, Herbert Getz, James E. Keonig, and…

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    Business 4000 Legal Risk Management Plan: Shopify Jordan Loder (201213535), Shangqing Hao (201350881), Sichong Liu (201450079) August 4, 2016 Shopify is an e-commerce company with offices in Ottawa, Toronto, Waterloo and Montreal (Shopify, n.d.a). According to their website, their mission is to “make commerce better for everyone” (Shopify, n.d.b), something they aim to achieve by offering a variety of ways that users can sell their products including with an online store, point of sale, a "buy…

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    A lot of big companies like Yahoo!, the New York Times, Target, JP Morgan and Staples have all been the victims of cyber attacks. You might be thinking that it could never happen to a smaller organization, but a lot of smaller organizations have less security than what these mega corporations have. Every business, it does not matter the size, can be vulnerable to DNS hacking. While a lot of smaller companies do not get targeted because they fly under the radar, there is a belief that cyber…

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    Identity Theft Do you know what 343 million dollars looks like because that was how much money so many people lost from identity theft. Today I’m going to talk about how identity theft is bad thing by taking someone’s money to them just getting your house bills. Identity theft is one of the most corrupt crime in the us. Identity theft is the most growing problem in the usa. next couple of paragraph are going to be about how identity theft may not even be theft, how many people got targeted,…

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