information (U.S. Department of Justice et al., 2012). The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) contains two accounting provisions:
Case Study of the ConvergEx Group 2013 Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) In December 2011, ConvergEx Group publicly disclosed parallel investigations by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and the United States Department of Justice. Between 2006 and 2011, two former employees of ConvergEx Group had concealed the “routing of certain global trading and transition management customer orders to the former Bermuda trading desk of ConvergEx Global Markets (“GCM”) where they were net
Total Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Resources The table below sets forth HCFAC funding, by agency, for health care fraud and abuse control activities in FY 2014, including sequester reductions. The FBI also receives a stipulated amount of HIPAA funding for use in support of the Fraud and Abuse Control Program, which is shown below. Separately, CMS receives additional Mandatory Resources under the Medicare Integrity Program (section 1817(k)(4) of the Social Security Act). The inclusion of the
the machinations can be determined through careful research and analysis. This author examines the three divisions of the federal criminal justice system with regard to the budgetary process each is involved in. A broad description of the federal budget process is detailed in the opening pages. Following this is a breakdown of how each criminal justice department accesses funds, and a conclusive analysis of reasons for budget shortfalls or gains. The Budgetary Process for Federal Law Enforcement
Government Data Mining Projects The government has many data mining projects they are working on. Some of the government departments that use data mining are the IRS (Internal Revenue Services), FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), DOJ (Department of Justice) and GAO (Government Accountability Office). There are many uses for data mining that help all these government agencies in assisting in gathering useful data. The IRS uses data mining to detect fraud trends and fraud detection. This
1.9 billion, or a mere five weeks profit for the global banking giant, HSBC was the punishment handed by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), in late 2012, for the bank’s systematic disregard of shady financial transactions. The DOJ’s decision is in response to the bank’s failure to follow: the Bank Secrecy Act, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, and the Trading with the Enemy Act. HSBC deliberately avoided reviewing flagged financial documents and clear warning signs that it was conducting
the decade since 9/11, research by the Federal Bureau of Investigations, along with non-governmental organizations, has found that the number of domestic terror groups has increased, a trend only exacerbated by the economic recession (U.S. Department of Justice, 2009, Domestic Terrorism). While there are a wide variety of individual groups and ideologies, most domestic terror groups falls into one of three broad categories: religious extremism, white supremacy, and anti-government and separatists
strengthened its capabilities by establishing three new squads of about 30 agents in Washington, D.C., New York, and Los Angeles. In the first major initiative to be announced by Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, in September 2015 the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) responded to criticism of its lack of prosecutions of Wall Street criminals. It issued a memo to federal prosecutors nationwide, written by Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates and known as the “Yates Memo,” that outlined new policies
bureaucracy, there are several departments and agencies that deal with campaign finance regulations. The Federal Election Commission is an independent regulatory agency within the federal bureaucracy that administers and enforces federal campaign finance law (Federal Election Commission 2014). Members of this agency attempt to make sure the funding of campaigns occurs within the law. The Department of Treasury is also involved in campaign finance. Members of the Department of Treasury provide federal
scope (Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission, 1996). Hospital consolidations and collaborations are encouraged by the American Hospital Association (1992) to improve the efficiency of care and lower the cost of care. Second, a health system formation can raise the market power of the member hospitals. A merger with another hospital can increase the market power of affiliated hospitals, thus giving advantages in negotiating the price of care with insurers (Department of Justice and Federal