Albert Tapia
Dr. Robert Vega
Buad 5304 Ethics
June 14th 2015
The Case of Cesar Corriea In 1999 Cesar Corriea formed an information dissemination company, known as Infolink technologies Ltd. With George Theodore as his partner. Cesar Corrie as president of the company traded on the Toronto stock exchange up until 2007 when the company became private. The Ontario securities commission, requires all directors and officers of public companies to disclose any criminal convictions and “any other penalties or sanctions imposed by a court or regulatory body that would likely be consider an important detail to an investor making reasonable investments. Background information, Cesar Corriea obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and statistics in 1989 from the University of Manitoba. 1996 after moving to Canada, Corriea applied for a pardon of his past criminal history, by showing his completion of his sentence and that he is a law-abiding citizen, and the pardon was granted. In 1984 at the age of 18, Cesar Corriea as was accused of murder, he later confessed to manslaughter of his father and severed five years in prison where he obtained his BS degree. Joachim, Cesar’s father was abusive to Cesar, to Cesar’s brother and to the mother as well. The judge overseeing the case stated “Joachim was a cruel and abusive man whose home was a living hell” Cesar stated that he was protecting his family from abuse.
The concept of placing duty before happiness and economic well-being is hard for people to accept. According to Utilitarianism “the ethically correct action is the one that will produce the greatest amount of pleasure or the least amount of pain” Cesar could have been ethically obligated to inform co- founder George Theodore under the utilitarianism philosophy to eliminate the possibilities of investor worries, bad publicity, and other detrimental effects to the business. Cesar could have informed George Theodore of his past