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It is very hard to say that SOX would prevented the scandal but they would have being exposed sooner because of the Sarbanes-Oxley section and titles rules and regulation such as; Titles II the auditors partner rotation; Title III, the responsibility or reporting accurate financial corporate reports. They reported depreciation expenses of garbage trucks as a salvage values, and subjective to other assets that did not have any value. Title IV the financial disclosures of financial reports was overstated or understated in some reports to inflates a high profit margin. The Titles VIII, the alteration and destruction of records that would protect the
In the article, " The Powerless Get Punished for Cheating, and the Powerful Benefit", written by Brittnay Cooper, argues that executives are not sent to jail for mortgage fraud that destroy poor neighborhoods. She argues, "Subprime lending fraud by banks like Wells Fargo and other lenders demolished African-American neighborhoods and exacerbated a crisis of black women and families being evicted from their homes yet no major executive has been punished. " The only ones suffering From the cheating are the lower-class because those causing the problems are faced with no penalties and feel as though they can continue these immoral actions. Cooper as argues," republicans are using trumped up evidence from conservative activist to press the case
A colored man named Robert McBride detonated a bomb underneath a parked car outside the Magoo’s and Why Not bar. He committed this crime under the harsh conditions of apartheid which created an environment where people of color did not receive the same advantages as white people. Without apartheid this crime could have been avoided because the interracial conflict between blacks and whites would not have existed to such a severe extent. Hello, I am Nadia Barcklay and I am arguing for the granting of amnesty to Mr. Robert McBride because he does meet all three amnesty criteria.
The Morality of a Knight Have you or someone you know showed courage in your lives? There was and always will be many stories that probably have the same of amount of courage as the people you know or see in the news. One of those stories is “The Tale of Sir Launcelot du Lake”, which tells the tale of one of King Arthur’s most beloved and talented knight, Sir Launcelot. He loves to adventure and help others with moral courage. However, Sir Launcelot is not the only sense of moral courage in this story.
The headnote establishes Michael Dillingham’s work position as an experienced team physician. With that information, I can already assume that the essay will be evidence Dillingham has pulled from previous experiences. Throughout the essay Dillingham gives his position on the negative effects of the drugs, and explains who agrees with his position. Applied ethics is the moral reasoning behind the use of the drug and its advantages and disadvantages. With applied ethics the audience can be both private and public people.
Lucy Bichakhchyan Introduction to Philosophy Second Short Written Assignment GALEN STRAWSON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF MORAL RESPONSIBILITY Galen Strawson is a British philosopher, who is famous for his philosophical works on free will, panpsychism, causality, determinism etc. This paper is about his article “The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility”. The title of the article already gives away the stand that Strawson has considering Moral Responsibility..
In the civil securities fraud context, the Supreme Court has held that intent indicates that the plaintiff act willfully with a realization that she was acting wrongfully, Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder, 425 U.S> 185, 193, 47 L.Ed. 2d 668, 96 S. Ct. 1375 (1976). Or in the criminal securities indictment did the plaintiff have a mental state embracing intent to deceive, manipulate, or defraud, United States v. Dixon, 536 F.2d 1388, 1395 (2d Cir. 1976). The issue is not which definition of intent to apply, but whether, taking into account the heightened standard of proof in criminal cases, is there sufficient evidence of Stewart’s intent to deceive investors.
JPMorgan Chase Bank has faced several lawsuits in recent years. They have been hit with cases concerning fraudulent misrepresentation, bribery, and many things in between. By studying the accusations the company has faced, one receives a better understanding of who is really handling their money. An act of fraudulent misrepresentation cost JPMorgan the fine of a lifetime.
This article on ethics was really interesting and a dilemma that is prevalent within criminal justice. In the article Dr. Steven Davis recognized that students cheating in high school increased by 20% in the 1940 to 75% today. Davis stated, "If students lack ethics in high school and college, then there should be little surprise that they lack ethics in their careers. (2008). " This observation by Davis holds some value, because individuals that is willing to cheat to get ahead, definitely has no problem crossing ethical lines, because in their mind the wrong is acceptable, just as it was when they cheated.
However, not much information is shared outside of the FBI’s, SEC’s, Finra’s, FERA’s, etc, respective agencies. This puts “white-collar criminals at a great advantage” as the “[j]ealousies and rivalries among investigators and among investigative and prosecutorial agencies need to be reduced and if possible eliminated”. Most of the agencies share little to no information because of competition and rivalries between them, this allows important information to slip past an agency focused on a single case. With the dilution of the FBI’s white-collar crime division, more information will be lended to other white-collar crime agencies in order to solve more cases. The FBI’s information would be critical as they have “43 pending investigations on large companies”, and “2,346 probes of potential mortgage-related fraud”, this information will help with the investigations at the SEC and FERA.
The meaning of intention have been highly debated and had went through transformation throughout the years. It was R v Moloney [1985] AC 905 which introduced the Moloney Guidelines was the first case to introduce this subject, this case was followed by R v Hancock and Shankland [1985] 3 WLR 1014 then came along the case of R v Nedrick [1986] 1 WLR 1025 the final, clarified guidance comes from R v Woolin [1999] 1 A.C. 82 . DIRECT INTENT If a defendant commits an act with an aim in mind, and he succeeds in it, it can be said that he directly intended this consequence, and therefore, has direct intent. For an example, in the case of R v White [1910] 2 KB 124 , defendant put cyanide into his mother’s lemonade drink, but she died of heart failure before the poison could kill her.
Executive Summary Lehman Brothers were an investment bank involved in transactions worth billions of dollars and one of the most powerful investment banks in the world. Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008 following bad investment in the sub-prime mortgage market and used bad accounting practices called Repo 105 transactions to try and cover up the bad assets. This report sets out the use of the fraud triangle when describing the actions which led to the collapse. The pressure applied on the bank, the opportunity due to the lack of regulation to carry out the actions and the ability of the bank to rationalise their decision making.
1. Introduction – ethics – what are they? Ethics (or moral philosophy) is the kind of philosophy that define concept of right or wrong conduct. In practice, ethics try to resolve questions of human morality, by explaining concepts of good and evil. Ethics, culture, morals – are bind together, they are embedded.
Secondly, mortgage brokers are seen giving out multiple million dollar loans to anyone and they were actually targeting people they knew couldn’t afford it. This is illegal and very unethical. This also led to the housing market collapsing.
What constitutes an intention to commit a criminal offence has been the focus of intense common law debate for more than three decades. Intention can be separated into two sub-sections: ‘direct intent’ and ‘oblique intent.’ The preponderance of murder cases deal with the concept of direct intent, and prove to be uncomplicated as the defendant embarks on a course of conduct to bring about a result which in fact occurs. When considering the concept of oblique intent, it is essential to look at the case of R v Woolin [1998] 1 WLR, alongside previous cases, to better understand how and why the appellate courts have developed the meaning of oblique intent. It is also important to note that in view of the uncertainty inherent in the judicial guidelines