Securities fraud

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…

Society has always been scathing. However, there is some strange reasoning to their own sense of judgement, and most people do not publicly express an opinion about a complete stranger, unless the individual is audacious. Holden Caulfield, a teenager who despises the world is too judgemental that he cannot fathom how there is another side with every story, making civilization’s faults seem bearable than being stuck inside this boy’s pessimistic mind. Thus instead of thinking that humanity is the…

The Phony’s Truth Throughout The Catcher in the Rye the reader can quickly come to the conclusion of Holden Caulfield’s love of criticizing others and calling them “phonies”, when in reality Holden is as much as a phony, and maybe ever more, than all of them. This is because of his continuous habit of lying to everyone and anyone, even in situations where it is not necessary. He is an unreliable narrator, and keeping up with what is true and what is not, may be a little challenging. His…

available I elected to research and write about the subject of healthcare fraud because I feel very strongly about our healthcare system as a citizen and as an individual with regular health needs. If the current system continues to experience negative repercussions due to the immoral, selfish and illegal actions of others then I believe it will surely diminish the already unsteady structure. The definition of healthcare fraud is the deceptive, dishonest and unlawful misrepresentations…

Over the past decade, the term fraud has been brought to the forefront of coding and billing practices. Upcoding, unbundling or billing for services that are not documented are serious concerns for practices and payers. In a release from the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, it was revealed that up to 30% of claims paid contained errors. Almost half of these were due to insufficient documentation (Prophet & Hammen, 1998). Ethics plays a big role in every aspect of health care,…

The fraudulent practice of civil asset forfeiture is a slap in the face to the principles of American democracy. Civil asset forfeiture is a legal process in which police officers can seize a civilian’s property if they believe those assets can be connected to a crime. Civil asset forfeiture originated during the Colonial era as an initiative to prevent foreign ships from illegally transporting goods, but required a criminal conviction in order to do so. However, the policy was revitalized…

Professor Rose and Fellow Blackboard Students, We learned from Lau and Johnson (2014) text “fraud is closely related concept (misrepresentation), and it simply means that one party has used deception to acquire money or property (p. 125).” In this Blackboard scenario, in my opinion, I feel that the car dealer misrepresented the car’s condition to the young buyer. In this week’s lesson, we learned about fraud and misrepresentation. Let’s analysis the four questions for the discussion. Do you…

What is a Certified Fraud Examiner? These are people who put many hours of hard work into finding any fraudulent acts that a company may be causing. The adventures but, nevertheless, important, relationship between investigators and clients is something that needs to be understood. While some have been captivated by fraudulent acts people portray, some don’t find it as interesting as others do. Although it is a very interesting topic, the certified fraud examiners have skills and training that…

Holden is afraid to grow up is because he is scared that he will become a phony. When Phoebe asks Holden why he is so scared to be grown up, Holden exclaims, “How would you know you weren’t being a phony? The trouble is, you wouldn’t” (172). Because Holden strongly considers himself as ostracized by society for the reason being that he is a non phony, he believes that when he gets older, it is certain he will become a kind of person that is fake, or somebody that in his eyes doesn’t live a…

Craig Newmark launched the website that bears his name in 1995. Since then, Craigslist has turned the classified ad market upside down, draining billions of dollars from newspaper coffers while saving consumers a mint. However, consumers have also lost plenty of money through Craigslist, typically falling for one scam or another that has extracted hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars from them. Here’s a sample of the Craigslist car scams that have been perpetuated and how best to avoid each…