Rampart scandal

In July 1971, Kissinger, did not miss an opportunity to engage in discussions with China. He was sent in secrecy for negotiations that would lead Nixon to lead the first official visit of an American president in PR China on 21 February 1972. The negotiations, hidden behind an aggressive public rhetoric toward the communist threat, were conducted while already, without realizing it to Nixon, Kissinger had already established contacts end of 1969. Kissinger, shows his admiration for China's…

Watergate began with the 1970s congressional elections because it created the fear that Nixon could lose the 1972 presidential election. The large antiwar demonstrations in Washington during 1971 caused the Nixon campaign to worry about Nixon’s reelection. For these reasons, White House special counsel Charles W. Colson made a list of enemies. To deal with the enemies on the list the Nixon administration recruited undercover agents and started plans for domestic surveillance. After the…

Imagine if the president was involved in a scandal that required multiple cover-ups and lies, ruining the trust in the government. President Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, devised a scandal like that described above. He, along with his robbers, planned to break into the federal government’s Watergate building and steal confidential files and documents. The Watergate Scandal truly began in 1972, when Nixon and his reelection committee were caught during the process of…

The Watergate scandal might just be the biggest political scandal in American history. The Watergate scandal was about a break-in at Democratic National Headquarters. It was discovered that the participants were involved with Republican members of Nixon's administration. When news of the break-in came out the Nixon administration tried to cover the incident up. That was what led to the hearings and possible impeachment proceedings. Nixon ended up resigning as President. Around the time of the…

Eddie Antar started a small electronic business in New York City in the year 1969. Antar dominated the NYC electronic markets around 1987 with 43 retail outlets, sales exceeding $350 million, and stock with a collective market value of $600 million. Antar personally realized more than $70 million from the sale of Crazy Eddie stock during his labor as the company’s CEO. Crazy Eddie collapsed in the 1980s after several allegations of financial wrongdoing from behalf of Antar and his associates.…

turned out to be illegal espionage, to help re-elect the president. This was known has the Watergate scandal ("Watergate Scandal"). On June 17, 1972, five members of Nixon’s Committee (known as CREEP) broke into the Democratic National Committee’s Watergate headquarters. Inside the headquarters, the men stole copies of top-secret documents and bugged the office’s phones. However, Watergate scandal was just one of the ‘dirty tricks’ that the Nixon administration did.…

A better documented scandal is the Teapot Dome scandal. In this scandal, hundreds of thousands of unsecured loans were given. During the presidency of Warren Hardin in 1920, congress gave the secretary of the Navy the power of leasing government owned oil reserves to private companies. In 1921, this power was taken from the Secretary of the Navy and given to the Department of the Interior. This department was led by a close friend of Harding. The head of the Department of the Interior was Albert…

concealment is used for identity and white collar crimes are used to mask the crime. As Andrew Fastow CFO was the highest ranking Enron executive who was found guilty of lying about the books. He was investigated in the Houston Energy corporation scandal. What was found out later when he went to court was he admitted to working with coconspirators to cook Enron’s books, and later found out he was keeping around 43 million for himself. Though as we know Andrew Fastow knew a lot about what Enron…

However, the action that had taken place by the 20,000 employees may have been due to the power of the executives, physically and mentally forcing deviant behavior. In conclusion, there were several factors to the success and downfall of the Enron scandal. However, many of the factors that created success work hand in hand as well as the downfall; somewhat like a domino…

In light of recent events, no high end corporation is above regulations and laws of the nation. Wells Fargo, a bank with the highest market valuation in America, has been charged with fraud. This company is worth of $250 million dollars, with customers across 35 countries, totaling 70 million people as global customers (CNN Money). Keeping people accountable for their actions is something that the government has been put in place for, and this is one of the times that they have not promptly…