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…
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…
Nathalie DERMESROBIAN II. The Vulnerability of the Indo US Relations: The Devyani Khobragade Case A. Events: Devyani Khobragade, the Indian Deputy Consul General in New York, was charged, on the 11th of December 2013, with visa fraud, sentenced at a maximum of 10 years in prison, as well as making willingly false statements , sentenced at a maximum of five years of imprisonment . A warrant was issued and Khobragade was arrested on the December 12th of 2013, after dropping off her children at…
The Madoff Scandal At one point in time owning the last name of Madoff was a very powerful and respected title, on a cold winter’s day that all changed. When my Father Bernie Madoff came and confessed to my brother and me about a multibillion scandal he has been running since the early 1990’s it changed everything. This grand truth swept the legs from under me. I remembered that it came as such a blow that I had to sit down. I could not even process the magnitude of what he had just told me.…
Theft, lying, stealing, being a criminal, and destroying lives of people are a few ethical issues that come to the surface in this white collar crime. Bernie Madoff is the epitome of unethical business practices and how the fallout is not worth the crime. Madoff has admitted that he knew he would eventually get caught and in a recent interview from jail has suggested that he could have had a successful career. The ethical issues and what made a human being do this is insurmountable. Madoff…
Identity Theft According to Dictionary.com, identity theft is the the fraudulent acquisition and use of a person 's private identifying information, usually for financial gain. To have your identity stolen is an unfortunate event; it can also change your entire life for the worse. Identity theft is very common, especially with the increase in technology, and can easily happen to someone if precautions are not taken. There are a variety of ways to use as protection to try to prevent it from…
As stated in the 2016 Identity Fraud Study, led by Javelin Strategy & Research, approximately fifteen-billion dollars have been stolen from 13.1 million U.S citizens. One-fourth of these identity theft cases were linked with stolen credit information, therefore, banks have implemented…
In Canada to strengthen the security of already existing law and electronic devices vivid kinds of tools are being used. To implement national and international responses to collect electronic evidence in cybercrime activities Canada using wide range of tools. Following are the important national and international tools: [4] International Tools: United Nations Convention against transnational organized crime: This instrument came in to effect on 25th of December 2003. It is one among the major…
the child this won’t happen. Third disadvantage is 'Risk of fraud & identity thief ' when it comes to posting things you like, the information an individual post on the internet can also can access it, by hacking or finding a clever way to access it, an identity thief can be stolen any time of just any personals information they find .fourth disadvantage is 'time waster ' nowadays social media is very popular when using internet, (Bennett,…
The manner in which technological innovations, especially the Internet and its accompanying tools, has transformed human communications methods is unprecedented. Communication has always been an important building block in the construction of societies from prehistoric to contemporary times and will remain so as long as the language faculty of humans exists. The advent of technological items such as the telephone and computers began the transition from face-to-face communication to non-face-to…