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In that tradition, the economist Milton Friedman wrote, in his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom : “there is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.”
But, while the global financial crisis did reveal fraud on a massive scale, the underlying cause of the crisis was not fraud but the failure of the market to knit together the self-interest of those who sold and resold sub-prime mortgages with the interests of the investors in financial institutions that bought them.
Although the electoral fraud in Managua was the most widely documented, the same modus operandi occurred across the country, affecting more than 40 municipalities.
This culminated a process of electoral fraud that began five months earlier with the suspension of the legal standing of the opposition Conservative Party and the Sandinista Renewal Movement, a rival to President Daniel Ortega’s FSLN.
Why did Ortega decide to steal the municipal elections, despite the risks this fraud has imposed on his government?
So Ortega ran the risk of committing electoral fraud, and now the country is paying the price.
Fortunately for Latin America, there is little indication that Sandinista-style electoral fraud is spreading.
Lacking any evidence for his allegation, Trump has called for an investigation, much like he demanded an investigation into widespread voter fraud (in favor of his opponent, Hillary Clinton) that never actually took place.
But how is it that Israel, which only a few years ago was hardly touched by fraud and corruption, is now swept by them?
Credit Default Swaps on TrialCHICAGO – The lawsuit filed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission against Goldman Sachs for securities fraud, charging the bank with misrepresenting the way a collateralized debt obligations (CDO) had been formed, has revived public disgust at credit default swaps (CDS), the instrument used to bet against these CDOs.
The British Foreign Office’s annual human rights report for 2004, the most comprehensive in the EU, condemns China’s extensive use of the death penalty (even for such crimes as corruption, pimping, drug offenses, and tax fraud), its systematic torture of dissidents, and its restrictions on freedom of speech – including the Internet – and religion.
Manafort has been charged for his own alleged financial crimes – tax fraud, money laundering, and making false statements to investigators.
Long before it became fashionable, Kaufman persisted with the idea that the US real estate boom was fueled in part by pervasive fraud within the mortgage-securitization-derivatives complex, effectively at the heart of Wall Street.
With Senators Patrick Leahy and Chuck Grassley, Kaufman worked last year to pass a bill providing timely resources to federal law enforcement agencies working on recent financial fraud.
Likewise, elections become less vulnerable to corruption and fraud when voters are properly registered.
It sees ever increasing anger against bloated payments to bosses, risky speculation, and outright fraud.
Houphouet’s fondness for money and power was plain from the outset, and his regime offered no exception to the dismal African rule of corruption, fraud, cheating, cronyism, embezzlement, and weak law enforcement.
But this provision applies primarily to cases of electoral fraud.
President Daniel Ortega is seeking to remain in office more or less perpetually, and seems ready to perpetrate every type of stratagem, from electoral fraud to dissolving Congress and the judiciary, in order to achieve his aims.
To date, neither the IFE nor any major international monitor, has alleged widespread electoral fraud.
The massive fraud that was supposed to bring victory to Mr Yanukovych, and which incited hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to take to the streets of Kyiv to defent their rights, no longer looks possible.
It has afflicted the United States Navy, which is now investigating more than 60 admirals and hundreds more officers for fraud and bribery.
The “economic principles” underpinning their theories are a fraud – not fundamental truths but mere knobs that are twiddled and tuned so that the “right” conclusions come out of the analysis.
Second, today’s algorithms are becoming very good at pattern recognition when they are provided with large data sets – finding objects in YouTube videos or detecting credit card fraud – but they are much less effective with unusual circumstances that do not fit the usual pattern, or simply when the data are scarce or a bit “noisy.”
They forbid libel and fraud.
But in the case of the World Cup infrastructure, large-scale fraud, theft, and graft is unlikely to have occurred.
In Venezuela, university students and NGOs designed election-monitoring systems to make potential fraud by the government easier to detect.
Two – in Argentina and Peru – went well; the other – in Nicaragua – was marred by egregious fraud and heavy-handed government intervention in favor of the incumbent.
The risks consist not so much in outright fraud – big lies that would be jailable offenses – as in more subtle forms of deception.
The prices of structured securities such as collateralized debt obligations have come down, because the institutional fraud of a multi-fold chain of securitizations has been detected.
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