Rampart scandal

Company Background HealthSouth Corporation, based in Birmingham, Alabama, is the United States’ largest owner and operator of inpatient rehabilitation hospitals. It is founded by Richard M. Scrushy and incorporated in Delaware on February 22, 1984 as Amcare, Inc. (Saux, 2014) HealthSouth Corporation hired more than 60,000 employees at 2,000 facilities which operating in 33 states across the U.S. along with its facilities in Puerto Rico, Canada, UK and Saudi Arabia. (Saux, 2014) It provides a…

systematic, and creatively planned accounting fraud, known as the "Enron scandal". Enron has since become a popular symbol of wilful corporate fraud and corruption. The Enron scandal was a financial scandal involving Enron Corporation and its accounting firm Arthur Andersen that…

The job I had accepted assumed directorship of a 50-man comprehensive information technology department with a history of perennially poor management, incoherent staff development, technologies, internal policies and procedures. However, no sooner than concluding the first day on the job, the chief operating officer had apparently gone snooping around my office only to discover an inadvertent disregard for one of their key rules - all desks must be clean before leaving. Had I been informed?…

I. INTRODUCTION Boxing as a legitimate sport is traced back to when it was adopted by the ancient Greeks as an Olympic game in BC 688, making it one of the oldest dated Olympic sports. Through the late nineteenth century, boxing was primarily a sport of uncertain legitimacy. This continued throughout the early twentieth century, until boxing promoters in the United States like Tex Rickard began to influence politicians and others in power. This also marked the plague of corruption in the…

Franklin Clinton Franklin Clinton is one of the three main characters from a video game called, “Grand Theft Auto V”. His height is 6’0”. Franklin is 27 years old. His first job was towing cars. He is sometimes nice, sometimes gets mad, strong, a really good driver, and used to be a gang banger. Even though he’s a criminal and a gang banger, he just do it to protect himself and for money. He live in a poor neighborhood but as soon as he met a guy name Michael, who is also a criminal but more…

The Watergate Scandal changed the way people thought of President Richard Nixon. If the event had not occurred he would have been known as one of the better presidents and until this day people still do not trust elected officials or government because of it. It is hard to have a healthy society without out having faith in the government, especially when it comes to voting. This was a life changing event for many Americans. It was on the morning on June 17, 1972 that several burglars were…

The Outsider Archetype in Nineteen Eighty-four In every society, there are always those rare intellectuals who don’t quite fit in with the crowd. These are the kinds of people who tend to watch from a distance and question what is going on around them. The outsider archetype in George Orwell’s dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, is Winston Smith. Firstly, Winston uses his knowledge against the party instead of for it. Secondly, he is the only person that still holds an appreciation for…

Guilty or Less Guilty? While some people may not believe that Nixon was involved in the Watergate Scandal, there is substantial proof that he was. The Watergate Scandal is considered to be one of the largest political scandals in history as well as the only one to bring down a presidency. While the news of the scandal shocked the nation, the culprit behind it all did not. "Richard M. Nixon was a secretive man who did not tolerate criticism well, who engaged in numerous acts of duplicity, who…

Woodward and Carl Bernstein, details the investigation into the Watergate scandal of the 1970s caused by President Richard Nixon and his team. By detailing the investigation of a burglary, recounting the discovery of a high-profile scandal, and revealing the importance of both anonymous and credited sources, Woodward and Bernstein analyze the factors that were necessary in exposing President Nixon’s part in the Watergate scandal. All the President’s Men argues that the foundation of a just…

seventies was when the Vietnam war ended, because protesters referred to it as “The unwinnable war”. In the same decade, Terrorists attacked the Olympic games, which in that year was in Munich. Richard Nixon was almost impeached for the Watergate Scandal, several men broke into the Watergate Complex in Washington DC. This happened while Nixon was running for re-election, the men were caught because of a single piece of tape, which was used to prevent a door from closing. Nixon was almost…