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In this case, there are several conspirators who is involved in the fraud receiving punishment from either SEC or federal government. Robert Levin, the AMRE executive and major stockholder, and Dennie D.Brown, the company’s chief accounting officer, were subject to the punishment in the form of a huge amount of fine by the SEC and the federal government. This punishment came from reasons. After AMRE going public, the company have the obligation to publish its financial reports but its performance did not meet expectation. The investigation by SEC shows that Robert took the first step of this scam, fearing the sharp drop of AMRE’s stock price because of the poor performance of company. He abetted Brown, to practice three main schemes to present a false appearance of profitable and pleasant financial reports. Firstly, they instructed Walter W.Richardson, the company’s vice president of data processing, to enter fictitious unset leads in the lead bank and they originally deferred the advertising cost mutiplying “cost per lead” and “unset leads” amount, so that they deferred a portion of its advertising costs in an asset account. The capitalizing of advertising expenses allowed them to inflate the net income for the first quarter of fiscal 1988. Secondly, at the end of the third and fourth quarters of fiscal 1988, they added fictitious inventory to AMRE’s ending inventory records, and prepared bogus inventory count sheets for the auditors. Thirdly, they overstated the percentage

The reporting party (RP) stated there is a belief that the licensee and Maria Dickerson are committing fraud. According to the RP the licensee is never available. The RP stated Maria Dickerson lives in the licensed home with her son. The RP stated when they arrive to the facility Maria is the person providing care within 10-15 minutes the licensee would arrive at the home. There were a few occasions when the RP made visits she only communicated with the licensee over the telephone. The RP stated the licensee never answers the phone call made to (916) 806-8085 however, the licensee would return calls made to that phone number.

Phar-Mor, Inc was a thriving discount grocery store in the late 1980’s. Phar-Mor was moving product quickly but profit margins were not significant enough to pay the bills. By the early 1990’s, Phar-Mor declared bankruptcy due to fraudulent financial reporting and misappropriation of assets, making it one of the largest frauds in U.S. history. Below, we will use auditing standard AU 316.85 Appendix A in conjunction with the video “How to Steal $500 million” to analyze how incentives/pressures, opportunities, and attitudes/rationalizations allowed for fraud to start and continue at Phar-Mor.

1. The three aspects of fraud - Perceived pressure, Rationalization, and Opportunity were present in the CIT case as follows:

6 which states, “Assets are probable future economic benefits obtained or controlled by a particular entity as a result of past transactions or events”. However, as per GAAP, line costs must be reported as an expense in the company’s income statement as these are fundamentally, operating expenses. It was put in the Balance Sheet as an accrued liability rather than in the income statement as an accrued expense. This resulted in falsely projecting income and profits; and concealing huge losses by wrongly capitalizing the line costs.

This court report is respectfully submitted to update the court on the CRA matter regarding Kevonah Renaud-Harris. On 5/25/2017, Ms. Adrienne Harris, mother of Kevonah filed a CRA. On 5/26/2017, this case was assigned to me to complete a Comprehensive Assessment which is due to be completed on or before 8/21/2017.

Chad Brown and his wife, Brandy Brown, and maternal step-grandmother, Carolyn Patterson, while responsible for the children’s welfare, did or allowed the following: Chase Brown, minor, left the family home, stole a bicycle. Chase Brown was apprehended by Union County Sheriff’s Office, officers Elizabeth and Jeff Wright for a report of a stolen bicycle. Once at the Union County Sheriff Office, Chase Brown reported that he and his two siblings, Timothy Brown (16) and adult sibling, Ashley Brown (18), were being locked up in room by their father, Chad Brown and Step-mother, Ashley Brown. Union Department of Social Services, assessment caseworker, Dana Lyles was asked to come to the Union County Sheriff’s Office to speak with the Chase Brown. Chase revealed to caseworker Dana Lyles that he and his siblings, Timothy Brown (16) and adult sibling, Ashley Brown (18) were being kept locked in a room by the following persons; Father, Chad Brown, Step-Mother, Brandy Brown, Maternal Step-grandmother, Carolyn Patterson and other minor step-siblings.

The amount listed is the enrollment agreement was 10,020.00 which gives a difference of :

The date of service should never be change. In order for the insurance to pay (if they accept to do it), billing should re-submit the claim with the information about that office visit. Medicare usually has a retroactive effective date for Part B premiums, which can be deducted from the lump sum of the SSDI. In some cases, then there may be Medicaid eligibility for a period of time and again, any services obtained during that time could be paid by Medicaid. If Nancy takes a chance and change the date and this action is made, it can lead to an investigation under Medicare Fraud. Medicare claims must be filed no later than 12 months after the date when the services were provided. If a claim isn't filed within this time limit, Medicare can't

Florida AG accuses Clearwater firms of fraud in property deals. Two Clearwater businesses and their president, alleging the companies defrauded consumers out of thousands of dollars in a land buying scheme. The defendants charged upfront fees on average of $2,250 for brokering the deals, sometimes promising to refund most of the money, but rarely following through on those promises, a statement said. 34 people were paid about $70,000 to Scott and the two businesses.

For example the extra charge for maintenance accumulated from last year and for this year should be equally divided and not charged to the first quarter only. Similarly, cost of relocating the Southern Paper Sioux Springs office that has been charged to the first quarter, had been the expenditure incurred last year. It should not have been included in the first quarter. No doubt these are good accounting practices but nevertheless reverting the charges to their respective results would not compromise GAAP practice. Unrealized income would be better off transferred to the next or the last quarter as the income received would not materialize until at the end of the year. Including the dividend from the company's Brazilian unit would not help increase profitability at the end of the year unless the company is assured of its profitability. As of now it needs to balance its accounts before it can estimate correct profit level at the end of the year. With regard to the obsolete inventories, there is no alternative course of action but to write-off from this

I think it is interesting that you mentioned that O’Peele had signed off prescriptions for the electric power chairs using a purchased Medicare list. It showed how the government lacks some form of fraud protection. Medicare was paying for the wheelchair before making inquiries about what they were paying for. Medicare could probably detect fraud easier if bills where sent more promptly to patients before making payments. It makes me think of the high amount of pre-approved visits a person has when they visit a specialized doctor. It’s like once you see the doctor once and do not have to come back do they keep trying to bill for those pre-approved visits.

WMC’s accounting practices incorrectly attribute fixed manufacturing costs to the three Detroit groups in a proportional manner, leading to Group 3’s lack of profitability. Discontinuation of Group 3 pushes a greater percentage of the fixed costs to the other groups impacting their ability to be profitable. Additionally, WMC does not consider the degree to which production at the Detroit plant contributes to the operations and

Neal A. Roberts, an employee of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) found out that his employer was earning millions of dollars a year by way of a billing method that he thought was doubtful. PwC had been collecting large rebates on airline tickets and other travel expenses being charged as expenses to clients of the firm. These rebates were not being returned to the firm’s clients in the form of savings, but the firm was keeping these rebates for it. This was working, because the firm would bill the clients for the full price of airline tickets and other travel-related expense, but privately, the firm negotiated discounts and rebates that they then got at the end of the year based upon total amounts spent. The clients did not know

The definition of fraud is “an intentional deception or deceit, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage” (dictionary.com). Fraud is a breach of law and can be punishable by law. Mortgage fraud is one of the financial crimes where a company materially misrepresents or omits information on its mortgage loan documentation in order to secure a loan larger than what is actually required for the business. It could be perpetrated by one or more participants, including the borrower, real estate agent, loan officer, appraiser or multiple related parties. Fraud not only destroys a