Public Relations Plan for Association of American Medical Colleges Introduction of the Association of American Medical Colleges Located in Washington, D.C. the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) was founded in 1876. The AAMC is a non-profit organization that serves the public interest of representing accredited medical schools, teaching hospitals as well as health systems. A non-profit is an organization that is tax-exempt and serves the public in either a charitable or education manner. AAMC also conducts business with the Department of Veteran Affairs medical centers and other academic and scientific societies. AAMC administers the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) which is a standardized exam used determine the …show more content…
Negative Publicity Rains Upon AAMC Hired in 1998, Ephonia M. Green was hired to work at Association of American Medical College as an administrative assistant employee. Ms. Green’s yearly salary earned her approximately $56,000 a year however she is charged with stealing more than $5 million from AAMC over a period of 12 years until the fraud was discovered in July 2013. Ms. Green’s access to submitting invoices for payments through AAMC allowed her to create a scheme that would catapult her well over her yearly salary. Ms. Green created company names that were similar to legitimate vendors of AAMC in which she then registered those trade names with the Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation. She then created fictitious invoices for those companies as actual vendors of AAMC. Using the names that she created, she then opened bank accounts at several local banks. These financial institutions would serve as personal businesses used to receive payment in which she would personally profit from. As an employee of AAMC, Ms. Green reviewed the false invoices and signed off on them which indicated to the accounting department those invoices were approved for payment. Ms. Green also advised with each invoice that the checks generated to pay the invoice, should be returned directly to her versus mailing them out to the fictitious vendor. The accounting department had no way of knowing the vendors
The case of Rita Crundwell revolves around a town, other employees, and an auditor 's blind trust in a women, who clearly did not deserve the trust. Crundwell was the town Comptroller. The fraud resulted in 53 million dollars to be siphoned from the town 's funds in a time frame of 20 years. Crundwell covered her tracks with a fake bank account, fake invoices, and the party line of blaming the state for simply being behind on payments. There were many red flags during the two decades of this scheme, but due to the town 's small size and trusting attitude, they relied heavily on external audits, which were not up to par.
The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office, DA Ken Thompson, charged Eric Vainer and his mother Polina Wainer who own a Durable Medical Equipment clinic is also the mastermind along with twenty-three other defendants including nine doctors from different medical clinic across the borough of the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queen with $7 million dollars in Medicaid and Medicare Fraud between October 1, 2012, and September 30, 2014. Moreover,
2) Frank A. Tassone; the former business manager, Pamela Gluckin; and an accounting clerk, Debra Rigano, who is a niece of Ms. Gluckin embezzled money in a scheme in which Dr. Tassone and Ms. Gluckin and nine of their family members and friends charged $5.9 million for personal items and cash advances on 74 personal credit cards. Then Ms. Gluckin and Dr. Tassone used district checks to pay those bills. The audit found that Dr. Tassone and
Scenario 3: Elaine R. was an accountant working for a large corporation. She had been falsifying the accounting records and sending some of the corporate funds to her own bank accounts in an offshore bank. The corporation found out what she had been doing and reported her to the police. Category of crime white collar crimes, Elaine
The Better Health Association is a nonprofit company whose objective is simply to increase the health of people through health education, guidance, and diagnosis screening programs. They make an attempt to assist audiences of any age and socioeconomic ranges to gain knowledge of living an even healthy life-style and creating the know-how required to develop healthy and balanced choices. "My role within the company is to secure agreements from at least three major area advertising and marketing agencies to underwrite the creation and production of all Better Health special event programs for the next three to four years. I also, create an active and positive presence for the agency in state-of-the-art social media venues that results in recruitment and assistance to new clients. Monitor and track results quarterly. In addition to, developing systematic marketing plans that address every operational area of Better Health including client services, all fund raising events and general association promotion in all media venues" (https://bluequill.franklin.edu, n.d.).
In the news recent was the Miami physician pleads guilty for role in $20 Million health care fraud scheme (Justice. Gov). The FBI and HHS-OIG investigated the case, which was brought as part of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, under the supervision of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Florida (Justice.
The typically overlooked crime of healthcare fraud has resulted in a significant monetary loss on the part of the American public paying into government run medical programs, as well as private insurance company programs. Historically, we have seen that in any instance where money is involved people have found ways to or at least have attempted to obtain it illegally. Some do it through overt acts of violence such as a robbery. Others choose more covert ways of illegally obtaining money. This is usually conducted through fraudulent activities. This is the nature of white-collar crime. There is no force or violence involved but it is still illegal. (SSA) Obviously, when such a large amount of money is involved there is
This paper will demonstrate the application of criminal statutes to white-collar crime, corporate fraud and governmental crime. This paper will discuss two sophisticated crimes in further detail. This paper will explain and assess common methods or avenues of committing white-collar crime, corporate fraud, public corruption, or governmental crime. This paper will analyze the application of state and federal statutory requirements and case law. This paper will provide examples of criminal incidents and the outcomes of the court cases.
I am a top performer because I always have strived for excellence throughout college, which in turn allowed me to graduate a semester early. In addition, I held multiple leadership positions throughout college, including President of Lambda Pi Eta, the national communications honor society, my college's Student Alumni Association, and Vice President of my college's chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA).
Ashley Johnson is the sole owner of Johnson Real Estate, hereby referred to as “JRE”, which is a sole proprietorship (LLC) that lists and sells real estate in West Virginia. Ashley’s husband James is the president of JRE and is the day to day operator. Besides James, there are two employees: office manager Joan Rogers and receptionist Doris Chambers. The realtors are contracted sub-agents that personally collect commission checks at the end of each month. These realtors receive 65% of the commission granted to the broker, the rest is deposited into JRE’s checking account. Ashley noticed discrepancies in the commission receipts from closings and the actual bank deposits in the year of 20X9. The previous year there were no problems. JRE has not been audited for the past three years due to rapid growth. Ashley filed a report with the local prosecutor, a family friend, and requested a thorough investigation, which resulted in the prosecutor’s office contracting an accounting firm to complete the financial examination. The prosecutor’s office assigned special agents Thomas and Longworth to the case. The prosecutors are Gina Conrad and Barry Morton.
Q1) The event will be a kick to kick football program that will include guest speakers, AFL and VFL players, a raffle and football based competitions with prizes to be won. Safety line aims change the opinions and views of young men towards the violence against woman. The event is promoting on behalf of Our watch, awareness for their primary prevention behaviour change campaign, The Line to young men and woman aged 12-18.
When an employer hires a new employee, they expect that employee to perform the work that is asked of them so that they can receive a paycheck. Often, employees are promoted to positions of trust within the company. These positions enable dishonest employees to commit criminal acts against the company for their own personal gain. One of the most common crimes they commit is embezzlement. Embezzlement occurs when a person in a position of trust takes or misappropriates funds that they have been entrusted with and converts them for their own benefit. This was what happened in Dixon, Illinois in 2012 that resulted in a $53.7 million-dollar loss to the city. The comptroller at the time, Rita Crundwell, embezzled the money to fund her own horse breeding operation along with extravagant gifts for herself. Crundwell was charged in 2012 and plead guilty to wire fraud. Crundwell as sentenced to 20 years in prison for this crime.
It has been researched that corruption schemes, a common type of fraud, were far less common than other fraud cases, such as, asset misappropriations, however, they were more costly. There are four types of corruption schemes: bribery, illegal gratuities, economic extortion, and conflict of interest. Three of these schemes bribery, illegal gratuities, and economic extortion cases all bear a great deal of similarity in that they all involve an illicit payment from one party to another, either to influence a decision or as a reward for a decision already made. (Wells, 2005)
The real marketing plan made will be composed essentially for officials, who will utilize the conjectures in the arrangement to settle on planning choices. These individuals will settle on planning choices for the arranged showcasing exercises as well as for the association 's assembling, requesting, and generation divisions, and different capacities in view of the promoting arrangement made. Notwithstanding administrators, numerous other individuals will utilize the advertising arrangement. Particularly the association 's business power. They will utilize the showcasing plan to decide its business techniques and what number of salesmen are required. The whole showcasing staff will depend on the arrangement to decide the course and nature of their exercises. The publicizing office contracted will utilize the showcasing plan to make the special battles and will likewise utilize the arrangement to guide its imaginative group.