The Ponzi Scheme (Bernard Madoff)

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In the past few years, enterprise integrity has come up on a regular subject of conversation. In the past ten years only, we have seen numerous situations associated with collaborative scams which have shaken the people 's trust in businesses and also the general economic climate. A few of the many salient frauds are the WorldCom and Enron 's scams, the ponzi scheme perpetrated by Bernard Madoff 's, the latest accusations of Goldman Sachs tricking option traders to guarantee the company 's personal profit. Incidents such as these designed us all, as upcoming corporation professionals as well as market leaders, think about ethics and its particular function in the commercial world (Gross, 2010.)

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Bernard Madoff had full control of the organizational leadership of Bernard Madoff Investments Securities LLC. Madoff used charisma to convince his friends, members of elite groups, and his employees to believe in him. He tricked his clients into believing that they were investing in something special. He would often turn potential investors down, which helped Bernard in targeting the investors with more money to invest. Bernard Madoff created a system which promised high returns in the short term and was nothing but the Ponzi scheme. The system’s idea relied on funds from the new investors to pay misrepresented and extremely high returns to existing investors. He was doing this for years; convincing wealthy individuals and charities to

Bernie Madoff began his career as an investment broker in 1960, where he legally bought and sold over-the-counter stocks not listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). From the 1960’s through the 1990’s, Madoff’s success and business grew substantially, mainly from a closed circle of known investors and friends through word of mouth. In the 1990’s Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities traded up to 10 percent of the NASDAQ on any given day. With the success of the securities business, Madoff started an illegal money-management business, promising his investors consistent returns from 10-12 percent, unheard of returns at the time, which should have tipped off most investors that something was amiss.

In William Faulkner in Go Down Moses, exhibits many biblical allusions throughout his writing by illustrating the Civil War being a cleanse from the sins human have committed. This furthers the idea that the corruption of humans can lead to an unavoidable chaos. William Faulkner’s Go Down Moses is collection of short stories in which they all tie together in a way. In a series of stories, Faulkner introduces Ike, who is met with moral conflicting issues throughout the book. Faulkner alludes to many biblical allusions and helps along with Ike’s decisions.

In chapter 1, and the videos presented to us, we learned that there are bad decisions being made at all levels of management. We assume that as executives the answers should be straightforward and easy. The reality is such that decisions made by these individuals are flawed from the beginning due to nature of thinking applied to them.

If you're vigilant and check your statements regularly, then you are probably safe. But, there are times where people may lose their entire life savings in an instant. Some people who are not educated on retirement plans or people who are getting older and they aren't up with the times may be subject to a Ponzi scheme or some other type of fraud.

Over twenty new directives have taken place within the SEC. (The Securities and Exchange Commission Post-Madoff Reforms, 2011). A case like Madoff’s requires everyone to ask what could be done better to protect assets and investments.

The SEC, along with many of the world’s financial regulators, was starkly exposed as ill-equipped to deal with the chaos erupting across the

Life is simply a game, a game played by billions of people every day. Just like any other game some players play by the rules and others choose not to. Some players go to work every day to earn money whereas some cheat and find alternatives to working hard to become wealthy. Majority of these cheaters play money making schemes on those who have worked hard and countless hours for their money. There have been many people affected by countless amounts of schemes in the past. A conspiracy in particular that has destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands is a scheme known as the Ponzi scheme. Named after Charlie Ponzi, it was first used in the year of 1919 by Ponzi himself. Charlie, who is now nicknamed the father of the Ponzi scheme, was thirty-seven at the time and was successful in

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We chose Bernard Madoff’s case because we thought that we could relate his case to many unethical behaviors. The analysis can be made on decision making and lack of ethical training which we think is an important topic to focus on this course.