WorldCom Scandal A summary of WorldCom fraud would include having to describe the greed that would eventually destroy one of the largest communications companies in the United States and world. A humble motel owner‚ Bernard Ebbers took a small long distance company in 1983 and turned it into one of the most successful businesses in the country. It was not so much the business operations that caused the company to grow but the aggressive acquisitions that made the company grow. In its day‚ CEO Bernard
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The City of Bell Scandal The story of the City of Bell scandal is one of corruption and deceit where top city council officials are the perpetrators and the residents‚ their victims. The city of Bell was a prime and easy target for Robert Rizzo‚ Bell city manager‚ and several other city officials‚ including some within the Bell police force. This small town in the County of Los Angeles has a population of less than 40‚000‚ and over the past decade there has been a substantial decrease in public
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Everyone finds love one way or another‚ but in “The Great Gatsby” it’s much different. The author‚ Francis Scott Fitzgerald‚ fell in love with a girl‚ Zelda‚ well she ended up leaving him because he was poor‚ and she would be living a lifestyle she’s not used to. When Fitzgerald gets money‚ and becomes well off Zelda comes running back‚ they get married‚ travel together‚ and have a kid this is when he wrote “The Great Gatsby”. Jay Gatsby is not in love with Daisy‚ he loves the idea of being with
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Introduction 2 2. History 3 a. Formation 3 b. Operations 3 c. The Success 4 d. All that glitters is not gold 4 e. The Fraud 4 3. Products 5 4. Enron Scandal – The Company Fraud 8 f. What Happed? 8 5. Techniques used in the Company Fraud 9 g. Revenue Recognition 9 h. Mark-to-market accounting 9 i. Special Purpose Entities 10 j. Executive
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Trip Winkel Finance 303 May‚ 27 2005 Dr. Namorato The Enron Scandal Enron was established in 1930 as Northern Natural Gas Company and joined with three other companies to undertake this industry. The four companies eventually began to break apart between 1941 and 1947 as a result of a public stock offering. In 1979‚ Northern Natural Gas was placed under new management when it was bought by InterNorth Inc. In 1985‚ Kenneth Lay‚ CEO of Houston Natural Gas Company devised a transaction
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creating this near-impossible to achieve standard for beauty by which everyone should be judged‚ women‚ men‚ children‚ and now the dead not excluded. And what is not attainable in life‚ is made attainable‚ and almost mandatory‚ in death. Western obsession with beauty is reflected in how they prepare the body of the deceased. On the first page of the essay‚ it is said that that practice of embalming and primping a corpse for its burial has become so “universally employed in the United States” that
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Natasha Germain Prof. McMaster 2 October 2012 ENGL 3535 Reality Shaped by Romantic Obsession: Examine the Effects of Social Hierarchy on the Female Voice in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko The narrative perspective of Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko attempts to tell this travel journal from the first person perspective. The female narrative voice is what pushes and pulls the readers in all directions through her detailed log of colonialism. The importance of the first person perspective in Oroonoko is it allows
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Report On Report On | Satyam Scandal | | March 04‚ 2013 | | Satyam Scandal | | March 04‚ 2013 | Abstract The purpose of this report is to highlight the ethical issues involved‚ wrongdoings by the top management of the Satyam Computer services‚ and some ways adopted by government
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The Rampart Scandal When officers from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Internal Affairs bureau began shadowing Rafael Perez‚ watching their fellow cop steal massive amounts of cocaine from evidence lockers in order to sell it on the street‚ investigators thought they had a major misconduct case on their hands. They didn’t know the half of it. The perception of the Los Angeles Police Department has ranged from being the best police force in the United States to being a blatant racist agency
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province of Ontario. The OLG‚ characterized by its core values‚ integrity‚ respect as well as accountability‚ is always expected to perform the duty of care to its clients. However‚ the organization was hit by a scandal which exposed fraudulent behavior within its operations. The scandal was revealed by CBC`s documentary The Fifth Estate‚ in an episode titled `Luck of the Draw` which revealed the plight encountered by a senior citizen‚ Bob Edmond‚ who was conned of his rightful winnings of 250‚000
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