Handbook of Frauds, Scams, and Swindles
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Handbook of Frauds, Scams, and Swindles

Failures of Ethics in Leadership

  1. 416 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Handbook of Frauds, Scams, and Swindles

Failures of Ethics in Leadership

About this book

It has been said that scammers and swindlers often display characteristics commonly attributed to good leadership. These include setting a vision, communicating it clearly, and motivating others to follow their lead. But when these skills are used by unconscionable people to satisfy greed, how can the average person recognize that foul play is afoo

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781420072853
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781420072860
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Forensic Science
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. The Editors
  6. Contributors
  7. About the Contributors
  8. Introduction
  9. Section I: Survival of the Fittest and Smartest
  10. Chapter 1. The Nature of Honesty: Exploring Examples of the Literary Hoax in America
  11. Chapter 2. Price Adjustments under the Table*
  12. Section II: Greedy Individuals
  13. Chapter 3. Charles Ponzi
  14. Chapter 4. Farm-Town Boy to International Fugitive
  15. Chapter 5. Oscar Hartzell and the Estate of Sir Francis Drake
  16. Chapter 6. A Concrete Example of Fraud at the Fort Worth Independent School District
  17. Chapter 7. My (S)old Kentucky Home: The Erpenbeck Homebuilder Case
  18. Chapter 8. ZZZZ Best: Taking Investors to the Cleaners
  19. Chapter 9. The City Slickers Share Price Scam
  20. Chapter 10. Martin Frankel
  21. Section III: Scientific Cheating
  22. Chapter 11. Human Experimentation Involving Radiation, Syphilis, and Scurvy
  23. Chapter 12. Doctoring the Data: Ethical Failures in Medical Research
  24. Chapter 13. From Fraud to Holocaust: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
  25. Section IV: Slimy Behavior
  26. Chapter 14. The China Aviation Oil Scandal
  27. Chapter 15. The SH Oil and Gas Exploration Scandal
  28. Chapter 16. The Spanish Cooking Oil Scandal: Toxic Oil Syndrome or Cover-Up?
  29. Section V: Fraud in the Corporate World
  30. Chapter 17. Adelphia Communications: The Public Company That Became a Private Piggy Bank: A Case of Fraud in the Rigas Family Firm
  31. Chapter 18. High Stakes and High Energy at Enron: TheMeteoric Rise and Fall of the “Crooked E”
  32. Chapter 19. The Inside Story of the Parmalat Scandal: Family Leadership Gone Wrong in a Multinational Group
  33. Chapter 20. Royal Ahold: Leadership Failure and “Big Bath” Accounting
  34. Chapter 21. TheVivendi Debacle: The Fallen Superstar
  35. Section VI: Watchdogs Caught Napping
  36. Chapter 22. The Fall of a Giant: The Case of Arthur Andersen & Co.
  37. Chapter 23. The Fall of San Diego
  38. Chapter 24. United Airlines: Pensions, Profits, and Ethics
  39. Section VII: Unhealthy Developments
  40. Chapter 25. The Health South “Family”
  41. Chapter 26. Richard Scrushy: The Rise and Fall of the “King of Health Care”
  42. Chapter 27. See No Evil; Hear No Evil; Speak No Evil: Ernst & Young’s Ethical Responsibility for the Health South Fraud
  43. Index
  44. Back cover

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