Whistleblowers

The Commonwealth Bank has discredited by putting their thousands of customers money in to risky investments and the royal commission has accused their fraud, while they trying to cover it up. A senate committee also recommended the judicial inquiry as part of its report of the behavior of Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC), that they appears to miss or ignore the early warning signs of Commonwealth Bank action and did not pay sufficient attention to that place the customers…

fraud to the concerned authorities. Qui Tam is provided when a private citizen litigates in place of the federal government in cases of fraud either by government contractors. It is a type of lawsuit filed by an individual who is referred to as a “whistleblower” or a “relator”. Conclusion Healthcare administrators can ensure that employees adhere to regulations. First of all, supervising various personnel in order to ensure appropriate medical records, insurance billing and coding is…

Introduction In this paper, I will be talking about the act of congress called the Patriot Act which is officially called USA PATRIOT (an abbreviation of “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001”). The act was a reaction to the September 11 terrorist attacks perpetrated by the terrorist group Al-Qaeda, as well as the anthrax attacks that happened soon after. The main concern of the act was to increase security, and…

of the customers while continue to hide these amounts from the company by manipulating the accounting books. In retrospect, if Walt had resigned from the company way earlier than participating in such fraudulent actions and had instead become a whistleblower, it could have been a situation of only bad…

essentially summed up what appears to be Greenwald’s core view of Snowden’s case. Having an awareness that Glenn was this kind of person is likely part of the reason that Snowden was adamant that Glenn had to be involved when Snowden chose to become a whistleblower. Upon further analysis of Greenwald’s ideology, it appears that much like Snowden he had within him this western value approach to situations showing a clear interest in pursuing the subjective ‘right’. Interestingly enough, between…

Can consumers rely on ethics and the process of self-regulation as a useful way of controlling managerial and corporate conduct? Ideally consumers should be able to rely on the free market to guide business conduct effectively, making government intervention unneeded. However, the capabilities of a self-regulated system is highly revolved around individual business culture. Upon evaluation of America’s moral climate, ethical theories and business ethics in practice, the reliability of ethical…

people were blinded by false representations. In the film, Jeffrey Wigand decided to share information with an interviewer of CBS. Lowell Bergman was curious about the illegal operations of Brown and Williamson. Jeffrey Wigand was called the whistleblower. During the time of Jeffrey Wigand’s employment with Brown and Williamson, he knew the…

The logic behind Edward Snowden’s quote is quite simple and explains a misconstrued and misunderstood concept of privacy. At first glance, the argument of government surveillance seems fairly logical. The government is basically operating a counterterrorism program on everyone. but law abiding citizens shouldn't be worry by this massive surveillance. This notion of “nothing to hide” if examined thoroughly, you can find some major misconceptions. This idea of “if you have nothing to hide you…

The decision to act against the establishment is never a simple decision and often involves the escalation of internal and external conditions for the whistleblower. Although Wigand in The Insider is fired after refusing to support the company’s actions, he initially refuses to disclose anything to the public. He first acts solely to defend himself and his family, but after an arduous cycle of institutional pressure and a series of internal realizations throughout the film, Wigand’s individual…

Every community has criminal activities that occur, some simple street crime, others homicide, yet many crimes that occur behind close door have business fraud or corporate negligence that can have more devastating results from their actions upon a community, a corporation, even stock holders nationwide. Some steal pennies, while others out right take everything. Corporate fraud, a white collar crime has been legally dissected and evaluated for years. The use of corporate guidelines and…