Whistleblower

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, also known as OSHA, is a government agency that is part of the United States Department of Labor. The mission of the agency is to “assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education, and assistance” (“About OSHA”). Its purpose is to minimize injuries, illnesses, and deaths in the American workplace by protecting workers from dangerous conditions…

Edward Snowden, hero or traitor? Snowden was a 29 year old National Security Agency whistleblower who revealed the U.S government secret metadata collection program. The program consisted of the government requiring phone providers give them all access to private phone data without any warrant or any authority to do so. He is a hero because he was only trying to protect american citizen’s rights to privacy, he also helped us become aware of what our government is actually doing and he revealed…

In an age of instantaneous, constant news and internet coverage, no organization or group is immune to the effects of media or mass communication. A government run institution, such as the United States military, faces the daily challenges of interacting with such media and managing its influence. Advancing technology and new forms of media outlets pose several issues and concerns for the United States military and how the institution as a whole along with the individual service members can…

Scott Rothstein known in South Florida as a prominent lawyer who rolled with all the big stars thought he had it all. He could be caught cruising down the beach in his Maserati or other choice of luxurious cars ranging from his Bentley, Lamborghinis, to Rolls Royce’s (Warren, 2010). Running a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme in South Florida from 2005 to 2009 Rothstein was unstoppable. He was living the dream until one day the truth finally came out and Rothstein was nothing more than a con artist.…

believe it should be looked at from a modern era perspective. Though most of the core limits (rights), such as the freedom of speech and press, should be protected more than ever, now that the government is crackdown on independent journalists and whistleblowers. Though many governments are different, most put the concern of the state first, this is no different in Washington D.C. The founders of our country, united in the revolution, were divided over the issue of including a bill of rights in…

In the world today it seems like every thing on TV there is something related to some business scandal where a CEO or an employee was able to steal millions of dollars from the company, or their customers without anyone noticing. Every time these business scandals happen everybody is surprised that it happened, and no one understands how it happened. With the amount of scandals that have happened the last decade, everybody is trying to figure out ways to try and stop businesses from being…

Laura was fired by Doug after the meeting. b. Issue: Can Doug fire Laura legally for her behavior? c. Answer: No d. Rationale: SOX 806 protect employees who provide evidence of fraud. Section 1107 of SOX makes it a crime to retaliate against a whistleblower for disclosing truthful information to a law enforcement officer. So Doug fired Laura violated SOX 806 and will be punishable by fine or imprisonment up to 10 years under SOX 1107. 10. Certifying the financial reports a. Fact: Doug and…

Intellectual property is person’s creation or innovation, invention that could consider having commercial and un-commercial purposes. It is contained any secret recipe, symbol, unique name, or even logo. Intellectual property could be divided into two types, which are the first is Industrial Property and Copyrights. Industrial Property is consist of patents for inventions, trademarks, industrial design, and geographical indication. Meanwhile, Copyrights consist of literacy works and artistic…

democracy, the first being secrecy, the second centralization, the third being repression and lastly distortion. We saw an increase in secrecy after 9/11 with the passage of the USA Patriot Act which many Americans were misled about until the whistleblower Edward Snowden came out and released all this information revealing that the NSA was collecting a lot more information than previously thought. We also saw it when the government tried to cover up the Iran-Contra problem under President Reagan…

The five elements relating to the establishment of a false claim under the False Claims Act are the government must determine that the claim was submitted falsely and that it was submitted with knowledge. The government must establish the claim was false and submitted knowingly, establish submitted claim to the person with actual knowledge, in considered ignorance, or with reckless disregard for the claim’s falsity, or truth. One of the other elements is that the element must be proven beyond a…