Carl Hiaasen's Bad Monkey

Carl Hiaasen’s novel, Bad Monkey, tells the story of a former police detective named Andrew Yancy who was suspended from Florida’s Monroe County Sheriff's Office. While on suspension, Summers gives Yancy the responsibility of getting rid of a unidentified human arm that was fished up on a tourist boat (Hiaasen, 2013, p. 8). However, Yancy believes that if he can solve the mystery of the unidentified arm he can be reinstated as a detective. Yancy discovers that the arm belongs to a man named Nicholas Stripling who committed an $11 million Medicare fraud and tried to fake his death in a boating accident with the help of a crooked doctor named Gomez O’Peele to escape prosecution (Hiaasen, 2013, p. 213). Moreover, to fake his death his wife Mrs. Stripling enlisted the help of a boat mate named Charles Phinney who set the stage for a tourist to fish up Mr. Stripling’s arm. This paper will explain how the how
Stripling taught Phinney a popular scam that occurs in South Florida. Furthermore, the fraud triangle theory applies to O’Peele because Medicare had poor internal controls creating fraud opportunites. Moreover, O’Peele was motivated to make money due to his dug addiction and rationalized his act of removing Mr. Striplings arm by saying he was instructed to. I would not have acted in the same manners as these characters because it is not ethical. Regarding Phinney, in a cost-benefit mindset I do not think $3,000 would have been enough to tempt me to tamper with a deam man’s arm nor take the risk of going to jail. In regards to Dr. O’Peele, medical boards and the federal government puts faith in doctors beleiving that they will use their prescription pads and services to serve the public in an honest manner. However, Dr. O’Peele, I belive that using his doctor abilities was the easist was for him to make money. Meaning that if he was going to make extra money illegally writinf fake precriptions was the easiest