Eileen Foster was the Executive Vice President of Fraud Risk Management at Countrywide, and later served in the role of Senior Vice President of the Mortgage Fraud Investigation Division at Bank of America after the two companies merged (Foster, n.d.). It was her responsibility to investigate mortgage origination fraud and reporting suspicious activity to regulators and the company’s Board of Directors. After several years of seeing a lot of suspicious activity and blatant acts of fraud she found that the company was playing party to this activity. Any employee who reported fraud and wrongdoing to Employee Relations were being transferred, demoted, harassed or terminated. When Foster reported her concerns to Countrywide’s Internal audit to investigate, the company not only chose to conceal her allegations from Bank of America, but it also directed employee relations to investigate Foster for wrong doing. She was eventually …show more content…
Instead, she wanted to ensure that the corruption was uncovered and exposed (Hudson, 2011). According to Hudson (2011), she filed a Sarbanes-Oxley Act whistleblower complaint with OSHA challenging the company’s right to fire her. In 2011, she won her wrongful termination whistleblower complaint against Bank of America (Froomkin, n.d.). The Department of Labor ruled at that time that Bank of America, which bought Countrywide in 2008 had fired Eileen Foster, as punishment for finding and reporting fraud and for trying to protect other whistleblowers within the company (Whistleblowers ignored, 2011). According to recent articles Bank of America was ordered to reinstate her position and pay $930,000 worth of damages (Hudson, 2011). The company wasn’t going down without a fight so they appealed and another hearing happened in October 2012 where Foster was represented by the Government Accountability Project (Eileen Foster-Whistleblowers,
In Defense of Rebecca Nurse Your Majesties, Judge Corwin and Judge Hathorne, our defendant Rebecca Nurse, a highly respected member of the Salem community, has been wrongly accused of practicing witchcraft. We believe that these profound accusations against, the honest and trustworthy, Rebecca Nurse were fabricated by those who are trying to cause harm to the Nurse family. This accusation of practicing witchcraft is serious and is not to be taken lightly. A warrant for the arrest of Rebecca Nurse was issued on March 24, 1692 (Salem Witch Trials Notable Persons). This warrant was issued due to the Putnams accusation that our defendant practices witchcraft.
FACTS: Jenny Stracner an employee of the Laguna Beach Police Department was told by several people that there several vehicles were seen in front of Greenwoods resident and the vehicles were only there for a couple of minutes. Stracner investigated these claims by staking out the residence and witnessing the vehicles at the residence for herself. After staking out the residence, she asked the garbage man to isolate garbage picked up and Greenwoods residence and hand them over to her. While looking through Greenwoods trash, Stracner located evidence that led her to believe Greenwood was involved with drugs. Stracner then received a search warrant and found large amounts of cocaine and other substance in the residence.
Ms. Alexandra Estrada is a 45 years old Hispanic female. She arrived at BHWS from HELP USA on 11/20/2013. She is currently living in the Department of Homeless Services System since 12/25/2012. Ms. Estrada stands 4”10’ inches tall and weighs approximately 100 lbs. She is of olive skinned complexion, has bleached dyed blond short hair, and has distinct scars on her forehead and left arm.
She actually was employed the whole time and admitted that she lied about it. She was charged by information with the crimes of theft and computer crime. The jury could only find her guilty of computer crime because a theft count alleged
The City of Pittsburgh were going through a merger and told her that she would be put on a transfer list to Allegheny County with everyone that wanted and were eligible to transfer. Rosanne accepted this offer to be transferred once the grievance was completed. When her grievance was over and went back to work, the City of Pittsburgh breached the contract by not including her name on the list of people that wanted and were eligible to be transferred to Allegheny County. She learned that everyone on the list made it to this County except for her.
According to the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act court ruling of 6-3 which states, whistleblowers will have security against subcontractors, public companies, and private contractors. Any employees who reports that their company has got revenge against them for reporting alleged wrongdoing can conceivably bring legal statements against their employer. In this case Val Riviello would be protected under the Sarabanes-Oxley Act.
This case involves a former Employee Development Specialist, employed by the Department of the Treasury who directed government contracts to her husband’s business. The employee and her husband were subsequently arrested and charged. Veronica Hardy-Everette was employed by the Department of the Treasury and was over the training needs of the department wherein she hired private sector companies to train government employees. After an investigation, it was determined that Hardy-Everette directed more than 105 training agreements worth more than $139,600 to her husband’s computer company (Cusick). Hardy-Everette pled guilty to several charges, including violations of § 18 U.S.C. 208: (a) …employee, or any person or organization with whom he is
Witnessing the unjust treatment of the workers and the state's harsh response deeply impacted Goldman, solidifying her opposition
Helen Canton seems to have done one thing correct when she exercised her right to leave the policy idea on the agenda, but postpone negotiations until later. This gives all members time to think about what Helen proposed. In addition, it will allow Helen Canton time to further research her idea and see if she can devise a better plan of action to persuade her fellow members at their next DA meeting. I believe needs to incorporate a situational leadership style to her role because Helen will need to be less rigid and more persuasive in her approach and show the ability to remain flexible and adaptable always to any situation that arises within her work environment (Laureate Education, 2010). I didn’t feel from the facts the case provided that Helen Canton was thoroughly prepared in introducing the idea of the policy.
This proves that throughout the case, Cendant Corporation wasn’t acting fully ethical nor with the desired fiduciary actions to their investors and the auditing team in this case being Ernst&Young. Aside from the trust being broken apart between both, there was never a sign of an internal control inside Cedant. Therefore, there shows that the corporate governance for Cendant Corporation didn’t have signs of existence as well. Most frauds that were occurring before the implementation of the SOX-2002, had top management such as in Cendant that didn’t have care for the ethical performances as much as in today’s corporate world with more regulations in hand by the government. At the end, Cendant had filings against them concerning their corporate governance
Andrea Yates at the time she committed her crime was a thirty-seven year old married mother of five children from Houston, Texas. Her five children, Noah 7, John 5, Paul 3, Luke 2, and Mary 6 months was murdered by their mother by her drowning them. She held each one of her children under the water in the bathroom bathtub. She drowned them one by one and once they were dead she placed them under a sheet on her bed. All except for Noah who was found still face down in the bathtub when the police arrived.
Bill had to keep is power so they told her she needed to deny everything about what happened. After the scandal she could have received jobs making over ten million dollars. But she had declined because she felt that it wasn 't right and she wanted to be able to get a job by herself and not her history.
Actions which were taken by the company to cover unethical behavior of bribery and
Executive Summary Lehman Brothers were an investment bank involved in transactions worth billions of dollars and one of the most powerful investment banks in the world. Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008 following bad investment in the sub-prime mortgage market and used bad accounting practices called Repo 105 transactions to try and cover up the bad assets. This report sets out the use of the fraud triangle when describing the actions which led to the collapse. The pressure applied on the bank, the opportunity due to the lack of regulation to carry out the actions and the ability of the bank to rationalise their decision making.
Whistleblower also worried as they normally viewed themselves as “blackballed” where they may be facing difficulty to engage new employment. “Whistleblowers have a strong sense of injustice” as cited by Fincher (2009). Despite the benefits, the act of exposing wrongdoing within an organization is no easy task, and whistleblowers are often exposed to negative consequences, such as demotion, dismissal, and blacklisting (Cassematis & Wortley, 2013; Chang et al.,