Bernard Lefkowitz

Toni L. Vincent Professor Gary Clark Business Principles BUSI-1301 1001 6W1 20 June 2016 The Kroger Company (NYSE:KR) The Kroger Co. (NYSE:KR) is a grocery retailer and is recognized as one of the largest in the world. As it states in the History of Kroger published by the Kroger Company Mr. Barney Kroger, a son of a merchant invested his life savings of 372.00 in 1883 to open a grocery store. Mr. Kroger ran his business with a simple motto, “Be particular. Never sell anything you would not want

Lawrence “Bernie” Madoff, American fraudster and a former stockbroker, investment advisor, and financier, born on April 29, 1938. His birth place in Queens, New York. His Birth name “Bernard Lawrence Madoff.” He was raised in a Jewish family with two siblings. His Mom Sylvia was a daughter of Romanian and Austrian immigrants and a housewife. His parents Ralph and Sylvia Madoff. His father Ralph, a child of Polish immigrants. And worked as a plumber for many years. In 1932, his parents got married

Case Study Robin Williams will go down in history as one of America’s favorite stand-up comedians and actors. Movies like Mrs. Doubtfire, Flubber, and Patch Adams filled homes with laughter and showcased Williams’ comedy talent. Other classics such as, Dead Poet Society and Good Will Hunting, showcased a different side of Williams and his dynamic talent. In 2014, Ameri-cans were devastated when the news broke that Robin Williams had committed suicide. Many questioned how America’s favorite smiling

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

Throughout history there have been many white collar crimes. These crimes are defined as non-violent and financial-based crimes that are full ranges of fraud committed by business and government professionals. These crimes are not victimless nor unnoticed. A single scandal can destroy a company and can lose investors millions of dollars. Today, fraud schemes are more sophisticated than ever, and through studying: Enron, LIBOR, Albert Wiggan and Chase National Bank, Lehman Brothers and Madoff, we

WorldCom and The Mississippi Scheme are both large financial scandals that have occurred. WorldCom was a telecommunication company that overstated their cash flow by reporting $7.6 billion in operating expenses as capital expenses. WorldCom is the largest accounting scandal in US history as of March 2002. The Mississippi Scheme was a business scheme that destroyed the economy of France during the 1700’s. The scheme involved the loss of paper money’s purchasing power as a result of asset inflation

Bernard Malamud was brought up in the mid 1900s, a time period when baseball played a huge role in the lives of many Americans. Americans loved baseball because it gave them a chance to stop working and simply relax while they cheered on their favorite team. It was a time when people played baseball solely for the love of the game and the thrill of hearing the fans cheer for them. Today, however, baseball is much more corrupt, and many athletes are only in it due to their own greed and selfishness

discover the reasons the events occurred. The aforementioned statement applies to the American Revolution as countless number of books has been written concerning the American colonies decision to declare independence from England. Woody Holton and Bernard Bailyn are two historians who have probed the subject and reached two separate decisions about the revolution. Focusing on the fears and threats the colonists felt, Bailyn identifies England as the threatening force against the colonists, while Holton

Worldcom Fraud TABLE OF CONTENTS WORLDCOM MISSION STATEMENT..........................................PG. 3 THE ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND TENETS OF WORLDCOM ............PG. 4 THE BEHAVIOR OF WORLDCOM ADMINISTRATORS ....................PG. 5 WAS CYNTHIA COOPER A HERO?.............................................PG. 6 WHAT WORLDCOM DID NOT RECOGNIZE .................................PG. 7 THE CONCLUSION..................................................................PG. 8 WORKS

The characters in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) each have a dual nature that is masterfully portrayed through character development and use of mirrors throughout the film. The very first shot in Psycho is zooming in from an open view of the city where it is a bright and sunny day. As the shot zooms in further and further it comes into a dark and shaded room that shows Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) and Sam Loomis (John Gavin) having an affair in a undisclosed hotel. This is dualistic image is just