Barclay Bank Scandal LAW/531 September 16‚ 2012 Barclay Bank Scandal This week our team decided to reflect on the Barclay Bank Scandal. We discussed how this scandal has affected banks all over the world and how it is affecting the people‚ especially those who have mortgages‚ student loans‚ and credit cards. People will see their interest rates go up even hirer than they are now. Barclay has issued an apology and is now trying to put
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Deontology and the Categorical Imperative Applied to the Adelphia Communications Scandal In July of 2002‚ five officials of the Adelphia cable-television company were arrested on the charge of gross corporate fraud conducted by members of the Rigas family. The events which transpired during the Adelphia scandal were some of the most egregious to date with an estimated "$100 million‚ hiding more than $2 billion in debt the family incured‚ and lying to the public about Adelphia ’s operations and
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An Ethical Analysis of the Enron Scandal The Enron scandal is one that left a deep and ugly scar on the face of modern business. As a result of the scandal‚ thousands of people lost their jobs‚ some people lost their entire pensions‚ and all of the shareholders lost the money that they had invested in the corporation after it went bankrupt. I believe that Kenneth Lay‚ former Enron CEO‚ and Jeffrey Skilling behaved in an unethical manner without any form of justification‚ but the whistleblower‚ former
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In a different time and place the type of business that the company Siemens engaged in was legal. Prior to 1999 this German company was using unethical business practices and a loop hole in German laws in order to bribe many different countries. These bribes were used in order to win contracts and make money. Even after proper laws were put in place‚ Siemens still found a way to ride the system. It was not until 2006 that everything was starting to unravel and Siemens had the rug pulled out from
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Ashe 1 ENG 130 11 February 2013 Another Political Scandal? Hmmm? Set entirely in North Carolina’s fourteenth congressional district‚ incumbent Congressman Cam Brady fends off a challenge from an odd‚ unordinary‚ and peculiar citizen named Marty Higgins in Jay Roach’s The Campaign. This film serves one purpose: to show the obvious problems political action committees (PAC’s) pose when they are allowed to permeate in a campaign. Congressman Cam Brady played by the notoriously humorous Will
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Yuri A. Batten Module 2 Case 2: HP Pretexting Scandal ETH501 TUI University Dr. Bonnie Adams Who is ever responsible for the wrong-doings of a corporation? Is it the person who actually commits the crime or the company that hired the person who committed the crime? In today’s world of finger pointing and blame shifting‚ anyone’s guess is as good as mine. Should Patricia Dunn‚ former chairwoman of Hewlett-Packard (HP)‚ have been forced to resign? In my mind the answer is yes‚ without
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For as long as there have been companies and accounting standards there have been people who are trying to beat the system and divert some of the company’s profits and assets to their own pockets. In this report we will discuss an accounting scandal that surfaced in 2004 and it involved Hollinger International as well as Conrad Black who was the CEO at the time. History of Hollinger International Inc. The original Hollinger was discovered in 1909 by Benny Hollinger‚ it was a gold mine named Hollinger
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The accounting scandal at Enron which occurred early during the last decade involved the manipulation of accounting rules in order to enrich the company’s executive leadership. Hence‚ while accounting techniques facilitated the Enron scandal it is more of a tale that is related to the hubris of the firm’s top executives and their deep-seated greed. Evidence that hubris and greed was more of the driving force than the actual manipulation of accounting rules for the Enron scandal is evident in the
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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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transcontinental railroad. The company took part in complex arrangements in which a several of the partners contracted with themselves for the construction of the railroad. As a result of this scandal‚ Credit Mobilier stocks paid dividends of three-hundred and forty-eight percent in the first year (Hoops 59). The real scandal took place not in the west‚ but in the House of Representatives‚ where Oakes Ames "sold" stock at par value to "where they will do the most good (McPherson 585)." In the investigation
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