Paper Information:
Based on your investigation so far you now suspect there may be additional areas of fraud taking place in this company. You are looking at fraud in the areas of tax fraud, identity theft, and money laundering. You decide to do some research on recent court cases involving each of these 3 types of fraud by selecting court cases related to your assigned area (inventory or travel) from the KU library (WestLaw database) and looking at the criteria below. Ex. if you were assigned travel you would select a case related to travel expense tax fraud, identity theft in travel expenses, and money laundering associate with travel frauds.
Analysis Requirements:
Based on your readings, peer reviewed literature, and the Fraud Examiners Manual using the template provided Week 7 Paper Part 3 Template, include the following in your discussion:
Identify and provide examples of the legal ramifications related to fraud in each case you found related to your assigned topic. What do they have in common and how do you think these cases would be related to your previous research on inventory or travel expense fraud?
Identify and provide specific examples of the laws that preserve the rights of individuals suspected of committing these frauds in the cases you found, the laws that govern civil and criminal prosecutions, admittance of evidence, and the testimony of expert witnesses in each case
Compare and contrast the laws that governs civil and criminal prosecutions of fraud suspects in each case. Be sure to provide specific examples based on the cases.
Identify and provide examples of fraudulent documents that may have been used in each case and analyze issues related to the admittance of this evidence. Discuss, if the testimony of expert witnesses was or could have been used in each case. Be sure to provide specific examples from the cases
Writing/Presentation Requirements:
The body of this research paper should be at least 4 pages (not including cover page, abstract or references) but not more than 6 pages.
This research paper requires a minimum of six references: academic journals, professional journals, laws, regulations, and/or appropriate authoritative references identified by the instructor. Three of the sources can include those of your 3 cases selected. Two sources must be applicable laws.
Be sure to provide specific examples in your cases to back up your statements
All research papers are submitted in APA format for sources and citations.
Please remember to run your documents through Plagiarism Checks (Weeks 1-8) to review the percentage taken from other sources prior to uploading here for final grading and the final plagiarism check.
View the grading rubric.
