Government Contractor Fraud John Graham CJ 415 Section 1 Winter 2013 In his book titled Trusted Criminals‚ Friedrichs defines white collar crime as “illegal or unethical acts…by persons of high or respectable social status for personal or organizational gain” (Friedrichs‚ 2010). This may well be true in the corporate world‚ but in the world of Defense Contractors‚ many are just regular people performing a job. These people seize an opportunity to steal sometimes millions of tax payer dollars
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offense carried out by non-coercive‚ nonviolent means‚ and using or utilizing an acquired skill or technology to perpetuate a fraudulent scheme” (Rosoff 15). One particular form of White Collar Crime is worker’s compensation fraud. One example of workers’ compensation fraud was reported on by ABC News and involved Bruce Gilbert‚ a bus driver who “talked like a five year old‚ a problem his wife blamed on an ‘on-the-job’ accident” (Hunter). Gilbert’s wife claimed that her husband suffered from a
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Healthcare Fraud - is knowingly and willfully executes or attempts to execute a scheme to defraud any healthcare benefit program‚ or to obtain by false or fraudulent pretense. Therefore‚ in order to prove fraud the government must prove that the act performed was knowingly‚ willfully and intentionally. Healthcare Abuse - is most frequently defined in terms of acts that are inconsistent with sound medical or business practice‚ is an unintentional practice is directly or indirectly results in an over
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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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The Statute of Frauds clearly identifies what contracts have to be presented in the written format in order to remain enforceable (Reilly‚ 2000)‚ therefore written agreements should be signed by all parties to be binding. The Statute of Frauds is a rule of law requiring certain kinds of written contracts‚ not oral contracts since they are vague and frequently don’t provide sufficient proof of the terms agreed upon by each parties. Oral contracts create more complications and are the main reason for
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Question 1: Name two cases in which companies have committed frauds by misstating inventory. Crazy Eddie and Goodner Brothers case are the good example for the inventory fraud cases. Question 2: What makes the intentional misstatement of inventory difficult to detect? When you have the most senior management of the company‚ particularly its financial management‚ consciously setting out to fool the auditors‚ to hide information from them‚ as they testified in the Monus trial‚ it’s very hard to
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There are many different ways to accomplish this illegal activity‚ such as ballot stuffing‚ registration fraud‚ and voter impersonation. Obviously‚ submitting more than one ballot in the slot at a time‚ or ballot stuffing is the simplest and the easiest of the three. Even though registration fraud‚ or creating a fictional person and registering with the phony identity or without permission the identity of a real person is most commonly used. Without
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profit and began his fraudulent activities. He was running false credit card charges on clients’ cards and check kiting. However‚ he was able to commit fraud on a large scale‚ when he gathered enough of a balance sheet built off fraudulent transactions. His major crimes were perpetrated against banks and investors by committing financial statement fraud. Such activities enabled him to obtain cash through bank loans and investment funds. Barry had fixed assets on the balance sheet that were fictitious
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Worker’s Compensation frauds committed by employers consist of the biggest percentage of all. According to Johnson‚ employers is the real problem behind the frauds as it is the most expensive for insurance companies. While some states like Florida‚ California‚ Texas and Ohio is fighting all types of Worker’s Compensation fraud‚ others do not. In the estimate provided by the Department of Labor‚ between 10 to 30 percent of employers misclassified some employess15. Since the premiums are extremely
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SUBJECT: Forensic Accounting Introduction In this memorandum‚ I will explain the reasons as to why managers feel more pressure than in past years. Also‚ I will discuss several ways that managers can commit fraud for personal gain‚ and how these schemes are eventually caught by forensic accountants. Rising Pressure There has been a growing trend to hold managers accountable for their company’s performance. Wall Street analysts have become enemies of CEOs. These analysts set target quarterly
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