Kenneth Lay founded Enron in 1985. Two years after its founding‚ the company becomes embroiled in scandal after two traders begin betting on the oil markets‚ resulting in suspiciously consistent profits. Enron’s CEO‚ Louis Borget‚ is also discovered to be diverting company money to offshore accounts. After auditors uncover their schemes‚ Lay encourages them to "keep making us millions". However‚ the traders are fired after it is revealed that they gambled away Enron’s reserves‚ nearly destroying
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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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[Case/Article Name]: The Enron Wars – Vanity Fair | The Watkins Memo | Questions: 1. Why do you think the whistleblowers we’ve encountered have all been women? The first reason I guess is women are more considering about emotions not about objective facts. Maybe a man won’t do anything he thinks it is wrong. He will refuse wrong things immediately. But women judge things by their own standards. For instance‚ if a woman likes the person who tells a woman to do something wrong based
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Tanzi. The company was predominantly run by the Tanzi family. The scandal that happened in this company came to light with the discovery of $14bn in its finances that could not be accounted for. The scandal has also come to be known as the Enron of Europe. The scandal brought down the company and its senior executives‚ blue chip European and American banks‚ accountancy firms and 130‚000 shareholders following the discovery of the scandal in 2003. Details of the Case The details of how the company came
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the tone for the entire company‚ and in this case‚ many of the stakeholders‚ as well (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room‚ 2005). Sometimes‚ examples of what does not work‚ is an excellent way to understand more clearly why something does work. Insight into Enron provides just such an example. Top management it clear that the only important aspect was to make money and continually grow the stock prices (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room‚ 2005). Even though several employees questioned‚ if
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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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Xerox’s Accounting Scandal Xerox Corporation is a multinational American document management corporation which sells and produces a wide variety of color and black-and-white printers‚ multifunction systems‚ photo copiers‚ scanners‚ fax‚ digital production printing presses‚ and related consulting services and supplies. Overall any type of printing equipment‚ more specifically office equipment. It is currently headquartered in Norwalk‚ Connecticut since 2007 when it moved from Stamford‚ Connecticut
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Introduction The Adelphia Communications scandal occurred in March‚ 2002 when three of the original founding family members which included the father John Rigas‚ and two of his sons Michael and Timothy‚ along with two other company executives were arrested for improperly taking assets from the nation’s sixth-largest cable television company. The scam involved one of the biggest financial frauds faced by a publically held company. In the end stakeholders were forced to absorb massive losses as
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were sentenced Monday to up to 25 years in prison for stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the company. The men‚ who were immediately ordered into custody‚ will be eligible for parole after serving eight years and four months. Family members wept in the gallery as the sentences were imposed. Kozlowski was led out of the front of the courtroom in handcuffs as his wife quietly sobbed from a bench three rows back. State Supreme Court Justice Michael Obus ordered Kozlowski and Swartz
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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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