The Insiders

The Case Western Reserve law review, “Insider-Trading Regulation after Salman v. United States,” focuses on whether or not a tipper can be convicted if their intentions were for personal benefit or for the purpose of exposing company's fraud. In the 1983 case, Dirks v.s SEC, the court based its decision to overturn the conviction on the fact that the tipper did not receive any personal benefit. The tipper’s motivations, in this case, were solely to expose the company’s fraud and it was argued…

School lunches need a change All around the world, students are starving in school. They don’t get enough. They hate the food and so do I. School lunches are a big problem. It really isn’t the schools problem either, It's the restrictions and mandates they have to follow. It all starts with the National School Lunch Program, or NSLP. It’s a federally funded program that gives schools low-cost or even free, nutritionally balanced meals every day (National School Lunch Program). It limits the fat…

“This One Statistic Shows Just How Much McDonald's Tries To Entrench Itself In Everybody's Minds.” Business Insider, Business Insider, 14 Mar. 2012). With Mcdonald's paying so much money on advertising it is no surprise that children ask their mom or dad to take them to Mcdonalds asking for a kids meal after watching a commercial from them on their t.v or tablet. With so…

In the first passage, “What is Intelligence? What makes a person smart?” It often talked about what makes someone smart. The narrator often stated that he doesn’t have any special qualities to do anything. “I personally have no education beyond that of High School. I do not hold any special qualifications and think of myself as being average in intelligence (kirstenblog). That there were always smarter and more polish people than him. But then they go into about what makes someone dumb, either…

The idea of white-collar crime was coined in 1939 by Edwin Sutherland, a sociologist. Sutherland defines white-collar crime as a crime committed by a person with high social status in his work (Sutherland, 1949). Sutherland spoke at the American Sociological Society Meeting in 1939, and expressed his concern for the lack of attention for certain crimes. These crimes were those of high-status people, such as corporate or “white-collar” workers. The actual term of white-collar comes from the…

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been famous corruption scandals in American history, such as the Iran-Contra Affair. The public seems to expect that politicians are willing to take money in exchange for political favors and to use insider information for their personal benefit. Like Sir Chiltern, Martha Stewart famously used insider information to have money. In her case, Stewart sold stocks that she discovered were going to lose money before the information’s public release. Sir Robert tries to justify his selling of state…

professionals” (Edwin s, 1939). They are different types of white collar crimes are tax evasion, embezzlement and money laundering. Many types of frauds and scams fall into the white collar crime, with securities fraud and Ponzi schemes such as insider trading. The usual crimes, like tax evasion and insurance fraud also add up to white collar crimes. Embezzlement is taking money from unknown to whom you owe some type of obligation. Very common example is embezzles a company employer money to…

Stewart as going out of her way to conceal the circumstances of the sale of nearly 4,000 shares of ImClone Systems. A separate civil complaint from the Securities and Exchange Commission accused her of insider trading, based on information she is said to have received from Douglas Faneuil, assistant to the stockbroker, Peter Bacanovic. The S.E.C. contended that Ms. Stewart should have known she was receiving illegal information when Mr. Faneuil told her…

30 seconds with no debate after many members of Congress had left for the weekend. “National security” fears were cited as the reason behind the modification and it basically gutted the bill by virtually eliminating any transparency for detecting insider trading. For example, in 2014 the SEC attempted to conduct one of these investigations of a high level staffer from the House Ways and Means Committee. In response, the committee officially refused to comply with their subpoenas citing that…