Burning Down the House: Mortgage Fraud and the Destruction of Residential Neighborhoods Ann Fulmer March 2010 DRAFT Burning Down the House: Mortgage Fraud and the Destruction of Residential Neighborhoods Mortgage fraud is bank robbery without a gun. 1 It is a high-yield‚ 2 low risk enterprise that has been reported in all 50 states‚ Puerto Rico‚ Guam‚ American Samoa‚ 3 Canada‚ 4 New Zealand‚ 5 Australia‚ 6 and England. 7 In the United States‚ it is committed by organized international and domestic
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How many times in the past few years have different races and ethnicities gotten a bad reputation because of what the media has said about them? Ian Haney once said‚ “There are no genetic characteristics possessed by all Blacks but not by non-Blacks‚ there is no gene or cluster of genes common to all Whites but not to all whites. One’s race is not determined by a single gene or gene cluster…” (qtd. in “Composition and Research” 733). If this is true‚ why is the media making it seem that minorities
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Abolishing Veil Piercing Stephen M. Bainbridge * “I weigh my words when I say that in my judgment the limited liability corporation is the greatest single discovery of modern times . . . . Even steam and electricity are far less important than the limited liability corporation‚ and they would be reduced to comparative impotence without it.” –President Nicholas Murray of Columbia University (1911)1 I. INTRODUCTION ...............................................................................
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What is Fraud? Fraud occurs when individuals purposely materially misstate facts with the intent of coercing someone to believe these misrepresentations. Upon believing the misrepresentation‚ individuals will act upon them and suffer a loss or damages. Fraud occurs in various forms: 1. Misappropriation of assets 2. Fraudulent financial reporting 3. Employee fraud 4. Management fraud The Fraud Triangle * Motive/Incentive: a reason to commit the fraud * Opportunity:
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Bily v. Arthur Young & Co.‚ 834P. 2d 745 – Cal: Supreme Court 1992 Summary of the case The litigation was brought by investors of Osborne Computer Corp. a computer manufacturing company. The business was founded in 1980 by Adam Osborne. The Company grew rapidly‚ and by fall of 1982‚ sales reached $10 million per month‚ making the company one of the fastest growing enterprises in the history of American business. Late in 1982‚ Osborne planned an initial public stock offering. In the process
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Abstract The purpose of this assignment is regarding to accountants‚ a professional career‚ meant to be very important to corporation or public because it is the base that offers great support to management for planning‚ controlling as well as decision making process. As far as people is concerned‚ accountants as information keepers and produce financial reports to stakeholders face major ethical challenges such as misrepresenting or misstatements in financial statements etc. However‚ accountants
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MERCANTILE LAW CA POOJA SHARMA PH NO: 09811599587 THE INDIAN CONTRACT ACT‚ 1872 CHAPTER 1- NATURE OF CONTRACT The law of contract is that branch of law which determines the circumstances in which promise made by the parties to a contract shall be legally binding on them. All of us enter into a number of contracts everyday knowingly or unknowingly. Each contract creates some right and duties upon the contracting parties. Indian contract deals with the enforcement of these rights and duties upon
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“….if the creditor bank has notice‚ actual or constructive‚ of undue influence exercised by the husband (and consequently of the wife’s equity to set aside the transaction) the creditor will take subject to that equity and the wife can set aside the transaction against the creditor…as well as against the husband.” (per Lord Browne-Wilkinson in Barclays Bank plc v O Brien [1994] 1 AC 180 at 191) Critically discuss the above statement. Analysis of wife’s equity to set aside the husband’s transaction
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networking‚ those seeking long-lasting relationships should switch off the server. The intimacy between online daters is artificially produced with the internet’s ability to give users more control over presentation of self (Goffman‚ 1959)‚ misrepresentation‚ and the deception that comes with these elements. To begin with‚ it is essential to recognize how the ability to have control over presentation of self leads to deception. A primary reason why people turn to online dating is because of their
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INSURANCE LAW PROJECT | HEALTH INSURANCE AND REGULATORY ISSUES UNDER IRDA ACT 1999 | Rudresh Pratap Singh Roll No. 49 Semester V RMLNLU | Contents INTRODUCTION 4 The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority 5 Regulatory issues in the health insurance business 5 It should be the duty of the regulator (IRDA) to ensure that the new entrant in the health insurance sector: 5 II. Regulations Pertaining To Consumer
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