The WorldCom Accounting Scandal WorldCom was started in Mississippi as a long distance telephone service provider in 1983 (Lyke and Jickling‚ 2). Over the next decade and a half‚ the company expanded to offer a whole range of telecommunication services through a series of mergers and acquisitions (Lyke and Jickling‚ 2). At its height‚ WorldCom was the largest long distance phone company in the United States and was one of the leading companies in the telecommunication market in the world‚ providing
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English I: Lord of the Flies Static and Dynamic Characters Static Character: A character in a literary work who does not change during the course of the story. Dynamic Character: A character who changes during the course of a literary work. The changes dynamic characters undergo affect their attitudes and beliefs. Directions: Looking back over the first five chapters of Lord of the Flies‚ find at least one quotation in each chapter that gives an indication of that character’s personality
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the Enron stock price‚ one of the consistent themes of the film is the scandals and the lies behind the company’s success. The film separates each scandal and builds off that scandal to show how Enron was able to manipulate the public into believing its greatness. The name Enron is now synonymous with fraud; the reality is that greedy smart people created the tragedy. The film examines the fraud starting with the Enron Oil trading scandal‚ the tenure of CEO Jeff Skilling‚ the mystery of Enron executive
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Steve Johnson 06-13-2011 The Rampart Scandal The Rampart Scandal is about a widespread corruption in the community resources against street hoodlums or better known as “CRASH” anti-gain unit of the LAPD Rampart division in the late 1990’s. More than 70 police officers in the CRASH unit were implicated in misconduct‚ making it one of the worst cases of documented police misconduct in US history. The convicted offenses include unprovoked shootings‚ unprovoked beatings‚ planting of evidence
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The Jerry Sandusky scandal involved his involvement with abusing young boys and men in 2010 (Crandall‚ Parnell‚ & Spillan‚ 2013). Since the trial and Sandusky’s conviction of 45 counts of child abuse in 2012‚ there has been more information about case. Since the 2012 trial‚ Sandusky requested for a new trial or for the dismissal of his charges‚ however‚ it was denied (Scolforo‚ 2017). Sandusky still says he is innocent and wrongly convicted. Joe Paterno‚ the Head Football Coach at Penn State during
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point for a low 3-month fix can earn the trader over $2million dollars from an $80 billion deal. For a deal that is often settled‚ the derivative traders made their fair share of money by manipulating LIBOR. According to the Barclays and the LIBOR Scandal article‚ the derivative traders and the Desk was located on the same trading floor‚ which if you asked me‚ says a lot about Barclays internal control regarding LIBOR rate submissions in itself. The Desk benefitted from manipulating LIBOR in my opinion
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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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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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Enron and WorldCom Scandals Matthew Morrison ACC/260 8/18/12 Enron and WorldCom Scandals Question number one of the Enron case focuses on the corporations that got Enron into its difficulties these were the special purpose entities for joint partnerships including Chewco‚ LJM1‚ LMJ2 and the Raptors. Number three of the Enron case shows us that the board was divided into five divisions‚ all of which were full of well-educated financial employees who
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the scandal was one of Americas largest accounting investigations into a firms illegal accounting practices and their attempt to conceal it from the shareholders and credit lenders. Divulging themselves into the scandal and solving the problems at hand are several organizations such as: United States Congress‚ US Department of Justice‚ IRS‚ Securities and Exchange Commission‚ and the United States Penal System. Each organization is handling a different approach to unfolding the scandal. The
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