Lewinsky scandal

The United States Congress is the ground for policymaking in our nation. I chose to write about corruption in Congress, because the 535 members of the House and the Senate have the power to place limitations on levying taxes, and solving problems that cause America to be so divided. The legislative branch is able to control almost every aspect of American life in some way. A Princeton University study comparing 1,779 outcomes to what the public actually wanted found that groups representing…

term with just a little advice. When Richard Nixon departed as president in 1974, he was generally disliked as an aftereffect of the Watergate scandal. Although most people consider him to have very little compensating qualities, Watergate is conceded to be confirmation of his being inadequate to be a good leader, hence his termination. The Watergate scandal is Nixon's most egregious accusation as the…

WorldCom had recently been caught up in an accounting scandal, forcing the SEC to take a closer look into many large corporations’ accounting procedures. One of these corporations was Qwest Communications. While looking into Qwest, the SEC determined that Qwest had been improperly following the accounting guidelines and had inflated their revenue by billions. In 2004, the SEC charged Qwest Communications International Inc. with securities fraud and other violations of the federal securities…

17, 1972. One example of when a president used the powers that he has is when president Gerald Ford, he pardons former president Nixon. President Nixon had to resign because of the Watergate scandal, but because Nixon was a former president ford pardoned him. Some more information is that the Watergate scandal was when the president hired people to break into the Watergate Hotel where the democrats held all of their documents for the election, they did this so that president Nixon would have the…

When the American heavy metal band Metallica, unleashed their self-funded movie, the 2013 American IMAX thriller concert film - 'Through The Never,' it stimulated the interest of Metallica's fans, only to leave them perplexed and confused by its plot, which is extremely complex and difficult to follow. The 'Through The Never' film was such a commercial failure that the members of the Metallica band lost millions of their own money. In an interview with the Metallica's fan club magazine, the…

In the case of the American Red Cross as mentioned in both questions, I believe that corporate greed and issues of non-caring presidents, leaders and those in high ranking positions was the primary reason for the lack of confidence we have with ARC then and now (Thorne, 2011). The practice of paying leaders for job done poorly continues to exist in American with many companies and ARC is not exempt. This issue with this case is that it was done not only for Bernadine Healy given 1.9 million in…

In the second chapter of the book “Freakonomics”, they go through and analyze the similarities between how the Ku Klux Klan and Real-Estate agents go side and side when it comes to their strategies and their weaknesses. Both parties are described as keepers of information, with this specific information holding the key over control on the people. There are not releasing this information, but withholding it and that is what makes them both powerful. When it comes to certain information,…

From 2008 through 2012, 481 FDIC insured banks were either liquidated or merged with healthier institutions. Credit Unions saw 136 involuntary liquidations or assisted mergers at the hands of the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund. In 2009, Credit Unions saw their delinquency for mortgage loans peak at 1.61 percent compared to 8.86 percent at the banks. Many of the largest corporate credit unions in the United States invested in troubled mortgage-backed securities which resulted in…

The act of submitting fraudulent claims is nothing new; many third-party payers are often the victim of these crimes. As a working individual that pays taxes through payroll deductions, like many Americans that have a contribution towards the Medicare program. I have a right to know where funds go and how they are disbursed. The reason I chose this particular regulation because there was a similar case of an Optometrist submitted fraudulent claims to Medicare. Dr. Sponseller was sentenced to…

Vietnam: Authoritarian or Democratic? Following the democratization of The United States of America after their secession from Britain, democracy spread to other states through various reforms. Many states, however, still hold on to authoritarianism as their modus operandi. A form of government defined by strong central power and limited political freedoms, authoritarianism chiefly describes Vietnam’s government today. Freedom House’s Report of Vietnam in 2006 described the Vietnamese…