Whistleblower Fired for Exposing Truth/Corrupt Government Contractor By Yolanda Holmes Capella University Abstract Navy performed limited background checks on Thompson and Salvatore Carabetta when project was granted. Shaw Group and Carabetta were feuding during project‚ company rejected warnings from whistle-blower John Jack‚ costs escalated and components of houses were downgraded without Navy approval. Navy couldn’t get documentation out of American Eagle‚ Navy didn’t act quickly on information
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Government Contractor Fraud John Graham CJ 415 Section 1 Winter 2013 In his book titled Trusted Criminals‚ Friedrichs defines white collar crime as “illegal or unethical acts…by persons of high or respectable social status for personal or organizational gain” (Friedrichs‚ 2010). This may well be true in the corporate world‚ but in the world of Defense Contractors‚ many are just regular people performing a job. These people seize an opportunity to steal sometimes millions of tax payer dollars
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Government whistleblowers are very disputed in society‚ with many people believing that they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law‚ while others praise their efforts for reform. Whistleblowers are people that expose illegalities and corruption in government because they believe that it is better for the public to know for their own well-being. Oftentimes whistleblowers are charged under the Espionage Act for exposing measures of national security‚ although the determination of what is
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06 – Whistleblower‚ Product Safety vs. Animal Rights Whistleblower 70-85 * Whistleblowing is a new label generated by awareness of ethical conflicts encountered at work. They sound an alarm in the organization that threatens public interest * Whistleblowing has high stakes * Moral conflicts on several levels whether to speak out about abuses or risks or serious neglect * Things to consider? - ARGUMENTS * Is speaking out in fact in the public interest * Does speaking
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The Haitian government has been plagued with corruption from the beginning of its existence. Haiti has been faced with many foul leaders and thus brought times of despair for the Haitian people. The empowerment of poor leadership has led to a country that "has never known a period free of tyranny‚ repression‚ political conflict‚ racial animosity‚ and economic hardship" (Haggerty). Haiti’s capital‚ Port-au-Prince‚ is a place where "kidnappings and street crime are rampant‚ and the undermanned police
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that whistle blowing laws really protect people? Why or why not? In this case I feel that the whistle blowing laws protected the men; “The complaints were brought under a whistleblower provision in the U.S. False Claims Act‚ which allows private individuals with knowledge of wrongdoing to bring suits on behalf of the government and share in the proceeds of any settlement.” I feel as though this protected them because they received large settlements in return for blowing the whistle.
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States of America is a great country‚ just like Venezuela or North Korea. Having a corrupt government does not make a nation ‘bad.’ Having a corrupt government is like a car driving off a cliff‚ the car will explode into the abyss‚ and there is nothing you can do about it. Greatly‚ United States is still not floating in midair‚ right now it is on the point of the cliff. That’s why many do not consider it ‘that’ corrupt compared to other countries. Something those people are not considering is that all
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Whistleblowers: Consequences of doing the right thing By Jose Gonzalez Dr. Aaron Bazzoli Park University MG 260 29 September 2013 Outline Purpose Statement: To provide an understanding what constitutes whistleblowing in an organization‚ what are some of the laws that protect whistleblowers‚ and provide several examples of employees blowing the whistle and their consequences? I. What constitutes a whistleblowing in an organization? A. Origin and Definition B. Internal
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Games really relates to real life at the moment because of the corrupt government. In the hunger games‚ the government puts everyone against each other by putting a boy and a girl from each district in a competition where they must fight to the death. It’s all symbolic on how the Capitol prevents the people from forming an alliance and rebelling; the Games keep “every district against the others” and fighting among themselves. The government today‚ is tearing apart our united nations by putting cultures
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directed by James McTeigue both emphasize the government in the future and the dystopian society. They both have corrupt governments that controls people every movement and thought. Throughout Nineteen Eighty-Four‚ Orwell gives the reader a sense of darkness and despair. V for Vendetta has many different authors techniques such as symbolism‚ allusion and allegory. Both the movie and the book have a feeling of deep hatred towards an unstoppable government. The movie best exemplifies the meaning of tragedy
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