The Watergate impact on the United States and conclusions A. Summary thesis statement B. Personal reflection V. Bibliography A. Five books B. Three web sites Watergate Scandal “The Watergate scandal was an American political scandal that occurred following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington D.C. probably to steal certain information concerning the president’s illicit dealings with billionaire and aviator Howard Hughes and most probably to get information in order to black mail the Democratic Party during the election period.1” The term Watergate comes from the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C. where people believed Nixon’s scandals first occurred, which was on May 28, 1972.
Introduction Ralph Mariano, former senior systems engineer with the United States Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), pleaded guilty to conspiracy and to defrauding the U.S government of up to $20 million. He spent millions of taxpayer dollars in every imaginable way, money intended to protect the people of our nation. Using all the people involved in this case, Mariano directed them and other manipulators to bill the Navy for work that was never performed. One may think that in a case like this, dealing with the government, it would be impossible to pull off a scheme such as this one. However, with the persuasion of a few willing individuals along with his high ranking position in the Navy, he was able to orchestrate this scheme to perfection before ultimately getting caught in February of 2011.
Liberty Upchurch Assignment 204 – Task B 1. I have found a report identifying a case where a Social Worker failed to protect elderly people from financial abuse. The report states that on February 22nd 2011 she was informed by a service user that a carer had stolen £40 from them. In this case, the Social Worker did not file any report or contact the police within the time frame that is set out through training and policy. There was no paperwork filed regarding this incident until March 1st 2011 and there was no evidence that the police had been contacted at all.
on Jan 3rd 2012 3. A packing case containing a product costing $3,400 was standing in the shipping room when the physical inventory was taken. It was not included in the inventory because it was marked “Hold for shipping instructions.” Your investigation revealed that the customer’s order was dated December 18, 2012, but that the case was shipped and the customer billed on January 10, 2013. The product was a stock item of your client. The product of 3400 should be included in the inventory because it belonged to Webber on Dec 31st 2012 4.
Watergate The Watergate scandal is one of the most popular political scandals to occur within the United States in the 1970’s. It is widely known as Watergate for the illegal and covert activities covered up under the Nixon administration at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. It all began when the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office were broken into on June 17, 1972. Five men wearing business suits and surgical gloves arrested in the middle of the night with illegal bugging devices at the Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building in Washington, D.C. (Feldstein, 60). The burglars turned out to be part of a wide-ranging political espionage and sabotage operation run by President
Then the two reports of the Washington Post report that John N. Mitchell, while he was the Attorney General, controlled the fund for widespread intelligence gathering operations against the Democratic Party known as Operation Gemstone. Then again, with information from “Deep Throat” Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein publish a story in the Washington Post that tells that the “Canuck Letter” was a White House operation used to sabotage the campaign of Edmund Muskie. Three days after the story about the “Canuck Letter” Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post publish another story about how Donald Segretti was being paid $20,000 a year to run the white House operation to sabotage the Democratic Party
A few days after the break-in, he arranged to provide hundreds of thousands of dollars to the burglars, so they would be quiet. Then, he and his committee told the CIA to slow down the FBI’s investigation of the Watergate scandal. Some Americans thought the cover up was a worse crime than the initial break in. President Nixon was seen as abusing his presidential power. Seven conspirators were indicted on charges related to the Watergate affair.
The owner of Glen Defense was arrested in September 2013, charged with conspiracy to bribe Navy officials with cash, trips, and prostitutes. The article (2013) states, “in exchange for the bribes, the officials helped divert ships to certain ports where Glenn Defense submitted inflated bills” (para. 5). A total of seven Navy officials were charged, two of which were
Many people know of Bernie Madoff as the man that perpetrated by far the largest scam in the history of the United States, if not the world. His reputation of a successful investor, chairman of NASDAQ, and financial genius took a turn for the worst when his so called split-strike conversion strategy turned out to be nothing but a momentous Ponzi scheme affecting thousands of investors from around the globe. A Ponzi scheme is “a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to investors out of the money paid by subsequent investors rather than from legitimate profits (Fitzpatrick, 2010).” The Ponzi scheme was named after Carlo (Charles) Ponzi who fled Italy for America at the age of 21. In 1919 Ponzi developed a scheme to get investors
These seven men were either directly or indirectly employees of President Nixon’s re-election committee and many persons, including the trial judge, John J. Sirica, suspected a conspiracy involving higher-level government officials. In March 1973, James McCord, one of the convicted burglars wrote a letter to Sirica charging a massive cover up of the burglary. His letter transformed the affair into a political scandal of unprecedented magnitude” (www.infoplease.com). This affair is known as “The Watergate Scandal.” The Watergate Scandal taught America many lessons, but the three most important lessons learned were elected officials abuse their power, the media is an intricate part of politics and elected