Whistleblowers

CFPB, Richard Cordray, will be done through the secretary of the Treasury. Looking for excessive power or unconstitutional authority within the Dodd-Frank back agencies such as the CFPB, the FSOC(Financial Stability Oversight Council) and the Whistleblower Bounty Program. Finally, President Trump wrote a letter to the secretary of Labor to delay the fiduciary act,…

best of people. For example, Walsh and Foss are unethical because they failed to consider the consequences of their actions. Tyco’s scandal under the Kantian approach According to Kant, the person must be treated as ends and not as means. In consequence, the human being must be treated with respect. The human being has a moral value different from the machine. The Kantian approach comes with the principles of “respect for person” as “respect for individual.” According to this theory, the leaders…

information at will. Our right to information is equally muted, because it is the same anti-terror rhetoric and legislation that equips governments with both the justification and tools that are used to spy on, prosecute, and imprison journalists and whistleblowers, further diminishing the freedom of the press and restricting the right to information and transparent administration. Our privacy and democratic freedoms are traded in the hopes for security, yet it is done so at the cost of a…

According to the Federal trade commission, the FTC issued the Safeguards Rule, which requires financial institutions under FTC jurisdiction to have measures in place to keep customer information secure. On July 30, 2002, The Sarbanes–Oxley Act was created also known as the "Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act" (Investopedia, 2014). Then the main purpose of the act is to protect shareholders from fraudulent representations in the financial statements which is why the act…

unnoticed due to managers and owners not paying enough attention to their staff. It is the highest level of loyalty when an employee wants to address the problems they face in the company, and want to help correct them. A major misunderstanding about whistleblowers is that they intend to hurt the company, when they are actually attempting to repair it. Robert Larmer, a journalist of business ethics,…

While some people have figured out the defect in the empirical evidence and tried to persuade others to believe, unfortunately, mainstream is always hard to be convinced. Thus, this is why whistle blowers existed. Whistleblowing simply means the whistleblower perceives something that he or she believes to be unethical or illegal and reports it to authorities so that corrective measures may be…

The government has portrayed themselves as good people when in fact they manipulate the citizens, officials keep secrets away from the citizens by not telling even when most know the answer. The government has deceived the nation of America for generations, doing things that isn’t government type. Throughout history the government has deceived it’s citizens in countless different ways. For example they invade privacy, allow illegal activity, lied on important documents, and even tapped in on…

DaVita and built it up substantially to where they now own and operate over 2,000 clinics around the U.S. (Smallteacher, 2015). In 2007, a former clinical director Daniel Barbir and a medical director Dr. Alon Vainer joined together to file a whistleblower lawsuit against the company claiming that they were involved in “shady” practices that allowed DaVita to increase sales and make a profit off of Medicare and Medicaid recipients; their principle customers. This was done by giving a patient…

(Nursing Homes) whistleblowers increasing is the treatment of elderly and disabled people in nursing homes. It appears this issue received greater attention following a BBC episode which revealed patient abuse at a hospital. From 2010-2012 about 556 reports have been made by relatives and staff. The reports included the neglect of basic staff duties to physical assault on the elderly. 2) Identify the subjective conditions (in at least one paragraph). 3 pts. Over 4,300 whistleblowers share the…

We have been unable to give Volkswagen a grade higher than an A- based on its failure to succeed in some of criteria on the Corporate Report Card. Its inability to satisfy its triple bottom line sufficiency leads to this grade which can be derived from many components. First off, in regards to its equity and family section. Volkswagen only barely skims the top of many concerns such as the equality between senior…