Running Head: " Bernard L. Madoff Investment and Securities: A Focus on Auditor ’s Legal Liability and Due Care" "Bernard L. Madoff Investment and Securities: A Focus on Auditor ’s Legal Liability and Due Care" XNAMEXXX New England College Abstract Friehling & Horowitz were the auditing firm that "audited" Bernard Bernard L. Madoff Investment and Securities (BLMIS) for over 15 years‚ while Bernie Madoff ran a Ponzi scheme under their noses. This paper addresses the legal liability
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Bernard Madoff Bernard Lawrence Madoff was on April 29‚ 1938‚ in New York City‚ he earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from Hofstra; he started studying law at Brooklyn Law School‚ but quit later to begin his own investment firm. Using the $5‚000 he earned from his summer jobs‚ Madoff and his wife founded Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities‚ LLC. As the business expanded Madoff’s fame as a successful investor grew‚ Madoff’s Securities began using computer technology to develop
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This paper will discuss the matters of Bernard “Bernie” Madoff. Are his actions to be deemed unethical‚ immoral‚ or both immoral and unethical? Madoff plead guilty to conducting his $65 billion Ponzi scheme. This in turn led him to be charged with several counts of money laundering amongst other things. His world came crumbling down around him the day after the company’s Christmas party in December of 2008. It all began in Laurelton‚ New York where Bernie‚ his brother Peter‚ and their older sister
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By 2008‚ Bernie Madoff had grown Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities to 200 employees and commanded tremendous respect on Wall Street (Gregoriou & Lhabitant‚ 2009‚ p. 90). His lines of business included market making‚ proprietary trading‚ and investment advisory services. Madoff used the investment advisory services sector to perpetrate his Ponzi scheme. More than $750 million dollars of stolen funds were transferred to the market making and proprietary trading operations‚ keeping those portions
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Freddie Mac Fraud Thanaphan Darnsomboon PME604 Project Financial Management National University December 18‚ 2012 Freddie Mac Fraud The definition of fraud is “an intentional deception or deceit‚ perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage” (dictionary.com). Fraud is a breach of law and can be punishable by law. Mortgage fraud is one of the financial crimes where a company materially misrepresents or omits information on its mortgage loan documentation in order to
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As a follow up to my questions last week on Halyard $HYH I did some more digging on the fraud case and thought I would pass along what I found out. Pete said that Mike did more work on this so it may be repetitive but here goes. I talked to Michael Avenatti the lawyer on the class case. He said the case is ongoing and should go to trial in the next few months. He said it is a Qui Tam case to recover money for the whistle blowers. He is not sure HYH will survive this as they have no insurance
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1: Madoff case involves some ethical issues and questions. Firstly‚ Madoff did not tell the investors clearly about the business (what is it as well as details about the contract of investment). As he was former chairman of the NASDAQ‚ everyone was more likely to trust him‚ which resulted in less concern of the contracts‚ the investments‚ or the business itself. Secondly‚ despite having received complaints about Madoff’s investment‚ SEC did not investigate or follow the case to stop the fraud as
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Payroll Patty Scam The Payroll Patty Scam is a payroll scam were a company nearly lost three quarters of a million dollars. The payroll clerk‚ known at Payroll Patty‚ was creating “ghost” employees in order to hide the fraud she was committing. The payroll clerk was adding these “ghost” employees to a separate cost center which was not noticed since the company typically had seasonal contract labor employees anyways. No red flags were noticed for a long time because it was typical for the company
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Fraud Examination & Forensic Accounting Professor: David L. Cotton Meriann El Haddad Student Travel Agent Fraud Analysis Christopher Ryan Thomas‚ who ran a travel business‚ was sentenced for stealing students’ spring break funds. In September 2006‚ Thomas was selected as a travel agent by the senior class at Hampton University who were planning a spring break trip to the Sunset Beach Resort and Spa in Jamaica. From November 2006 through April 2007‚ Thomas collected approximately
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