second trial — the first ended in mistrial after a juror said she received threats following reports that she made an “OK” signal to the defense team. Kozlowski and Swartz are the latest executives sentenced to prison in a wave of white-collar scandals that shook corporate America and outraged the public after thousands of people lost their jobs and pension
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reading through this section one situation that came to mind was all the issues at Penn State with Jerry Sandusky. Sandusky was convicted of multiple charges of sexual abuse during his time at the University and despite the University knowing that the scandal was going to take a turn for the worst‚ the decision was to stay quiet about it. The University stayed quiet for about eight months until they finally sought out help to get them out of the mess that was created by staying quiet. If anything a simple
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The Penn State Scandal impacted many areas of the organization. From the managers not doing their part to protect those who were being abused. As a manager if an incident is reported to you it is your responsibility to make sure that the proper authority is notified‚ or you should at least investigate for yourself to make sure that the information that is given to you is creditable. In the case of an eyewitness account as with McQueary he did the right thing by reporting what he saw to coach Paterno
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Parmalat Accounting Scandal Summary After eluding financial analysts and investors for a long time‚ Parmalat went bankrupt later in December‚ 2003 and many of their board of directors have been arrested since then. Here is a brief summary of the events: In the late 1980’s‚ Parmalat’s financial situation was poor due to investment in side businesses. i.e. TV network‚ Parmatur‚ football teams (Palmeiras‚ Parma‚ etc). Cash siphoning through these companies was estimated to be
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The 2G spectrum scandal involved officials in the government of India illegally undercharging mobile telephony companies for frequency allocation licenses‚ which they would use to create 2G subscriptions for cell phones. The shortfall between the money collected and the money which the law mandated to be collected is 1‚76‚379 crore (1.763 trillion) rupees (roughly equivalent to 39 billion US dollars). The issuing of licenses occurred in 2008‚ but the scam came to public notice when the Indian Income
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Nishitha 09L Nishitha 09L Horrifying Animal Abuse Scandal Uncovered Agatha Shelley‚ Crime Reporter Sunday‚ May 10‚ 2009 Red Bank‚ NJ –Friday morning after suspicious allegations of animal cruelty and brutal murder of a pet dog were made by a local neighbours police searched and examined the storage locker of Ed Boone. “We came upon a more sinister and grotesque display‚ I could not even comprehend what I was looking at when that door was lifted”‚ said Officer Paul MacKelly one of the members
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A person should never throw away documents or personal checks without ripping them up. It’s easy for someone to go through trashcans that have the intent to steal identities. A well-known and controversial identity theft scandal that occurred was at Target in November of 2013 when hackers stole 40 million credit card numbers‚ 70 million telephone numbers and addresses‚ and more (Riley‚ Elgin‚ Lawrence‚ & Matlack‚ 2014). Offenders most likely chose to hack into Target’s system
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Baugh and Cable point out that there is evidence that at the time of the American Revolution and notably in the years shortly following it‚ Americans were starting to become conscious of their language and have the belief that it might be destined to have a future as magnificent as that which they confidently expected for the country itself. The English language on this continent apparently developed certain differences in the 150 years since the founding of Jamestown and Plymouth. According to
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The Lorena Bobbitt Scandal The name Lorena Bobbitt became familiarized with the concept of penis removal. The Lorena Bobbitt case also raised the issue of marital rape‚ forced abortion and domestic violence. Feminists along with domestic violence groups supported Lorena Bobbitt an alleged abused wife who acted out in a moment of insanity by cutting her husband’s penis after years of sexual‚ physical‚ and emotional abuse. The case sparked national debate and jokes about the mutilation of men’s
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HT WIRE TRANSITION JOINT: Transition cable joints are designed to joint multicore Cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) to paper (PILC) insulated‚ steel wire armoured (SWA) cables‚ 600/1000v and 3.3kV - 3M Scotchcast resin LA range transition cable joints with TX supplementary paper cable transition kits are suitable for both XLPE to paper and paper to paper 3M low voltage transition cable joints (XLPE to PILC) feature the Advanced Resin Delivery System for cable jointer safety with totally enclosed
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