Running header: SOUR GRAPES 1 SOUR GRAPES 10 Sour Grapes Shelda Villanueva Harding University Abstract Your abstract should be one paragraph and should not exceed 120 words. It is a summary of the most important elements of your paper. All numbers in the abstract, except those beginning a sentence, should be typed as digits rather than words. To count the number of words in this paragraph, select the paragraph, and on the Tools menu click Word Count. Company Profile History At the age of sixteen a young Indonesian …show more content…
The F.B.I. found counterfeit wine labels dating back all the way to 1899. Wynne, the F.B.I. investigator said he was taken back by the evidence against Kurniawan, Wynne stated, ?The evidence against Kurniawan was overwhelming ? He was the forger, consignor, and marketer, all in one.?(Vintage Fraud, 2014). Wine expert Maureen Downey went on to admit that he was beyond impressed with Kurniawan?s fakes and stated they were actually pretty good (Cohn, 2015). At the age of 37 Rudy Kurniawan was convicted in a federal court in Manhattan, New York for mail fraud and wire fraud. It?s also been found that Kurniawan also made a plan and carried it out to fraudulently get a $3,000,000 loan from a finance company located in New York City that specialized in extending loans that are secured by valuable collectibles, such as art or wine. Kurniawan got the loan by giving false information as well as keeping material information from them, such as the fact that he falsely omitted approximately $7,400,000 in outstanding loans, falsely represented his annual expenses as well as the fact that he was not a legal United States resident. Kurniawan had in fact been ordered by an immigration court to leave the United States in earlier years when his student visa had expired (Wine Dealer, 2013). On May 23, 2014 Rudy Kurniawan pleaded not guilty at his arraignment and was later sentenced on August 7, 2014 to 10 years in prison. Kurniawan?s lawyer Jerome H. Mooney had asked for a reduced sentence and to be sentenced solely to the time already served since he had been incarcerated since his arrest in March of 2012. Judge Richard Berman rejected his request and added that Kurniawan was ordered to
Two years later, the former undercover New York City narcotics detective testified in the Brooklyn Supreme Court, that the Brooklyn South and Queens narcotic squads had been framing innocent people routinely by planting evidence, in order to reach arrest quotas. “It was something I was seeing a lot of, whether it was from supervisors or undercovers and even investigators” , he recounted during his
When someone thinks of a typical fraudster, it is not likely he or she would describe a person like Rita Crundwell. She was born on January 10, 1953; she grew up on her family’s farm near Dixon. Her family had a good reputation in the community, and she got an internship with the City of Dixon in high school. After her high school
James T. Johnson was a young man who had a good job working as a construction worker. Although, he had a job and worked every day he still lived at home with his mother. Furthermore, he was the type of young man who went to work on time and after work he would come home. Unfortunately, there were occasions where he would go out with a few of his co-workers on a Friday he still came home afterwards. Nevertheless, he was hiding a secret from his mother that later led to him being arrested. Now, rather than James uses his money he had earned from working, he burglarized homes and garages in the communities in his area. After burglarizing these homes he would then sell the items he had stolen via the internet or a pawn shop in two different counties.
Authors Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld founded the innocence project at a law school in New York City, which has assisted in the exoneration of an astonishing number of innocent individuals. As legal aid lawyers, they blithely engaged in conflicts that implicated
This case was very interesting and I am really glad I chose it for my paper. Its amazing to me how one man with the right connections and social standing can get away with so much for so long. Nobody ever suspected him because he was the father of the NASDAQ, he couldn’t scam people for billions of dollars. And not just any random people, Mad off targeted his own people, the Jews and groups affiliated with him. He was very picky and pretended like he didn’t want to let anyone in on what he was doing which in turn made more people want to get involved and give him even more money, that’s just human
"… Cynthia Hood, 55, was entitled to a lighter sentence because she was not the ringleader of fraud and because her children would be in jeopardy without her presence"("Furst"). Cynthia Hood is one of many people who thought they would get away with criminal actions, yet her husband did the time in jail, even though she had the money behind her. Even though wealthy people believe they would get away with their crime they still had to pay the
Courtroom 302 is one of the busiest courtrooms in the United States and that isn’t always the case, but the processes are still the same. According to our textbook, (Neubauer, D.W. & Fradella, H.F., 2017, p. 13) “The overwhelming majority of crimes involve burglary and theft.” Which Courtroom 309 gives many cases that involved some sort of theft or robbery, like the case that mentioned earlier. It also gives a great representation of the flaws that our criminal justice system
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In July 2003, Sheriff’s Deputy Todd Shanks of Multnomah County Oregon was performing a routine traffic stop on a vehicle driven by William Barrett. During this stop, Shanks arrested Barrett because of an outstanding warrant and then searched the car. A pressure-cooker found in the trunk was believed to be used in the making of methamphetamine. Barrett informed Shanks that the owner of the pressure-cooker was “Gunner Crapser,” and that he could be found at the Econolodge Motel in a room registered to a woman named Summer Twilligear (FindLaw, 2007, Factual and Procedural Background section, para. 2). Deputy Shanks quickly learned that there was an outstanding warrant for a “Gunner Crapser” but to not confuse the wanted man, whose name was not actually “Gunner Crapser,” with someone else using this name.
Debated as one of the most misrepresented cases in American legal history, Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald still fights for innocence. Contrary to infallible evidence, prosecution intentionally withheld crucial information aiding MacDonald’s alibi. Such ratification included proof of an outside attack that would have played a major role in Jeffrey’s case.
then convicted under the Stolen Valor Act and sentenced to a fine. In the appeals
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All of these dealers claimed they were innocent, but one particular defense attorney, Cynthia Barbare, took her client, Jose Luis Vega, at his word. He claimed to be an honest auto mechanic and the dirt under his fingernails led her to believe him. Plus, she found it odd that a reportedly wealthy drug trafficker lived in such a meager home. Her first line of defense was simply requesting that the drug lab test the veracity of the drugs. None of the prior dealers from Alonso’s cases had done so because the Dallas county court system unofficially penalized anyone who requested verification from the drug lab with a much lengthier sentence. The courts had simply relied upon the officers’ field tests. Ultimately, Barbare’s gutsy choice paid off
... carpenter who lived in the U.S. for the past eleven years, matched descriptions of Dr. Condon and the service attendant, and had a $20 gold certificate with serial number matching that of the ransom money. Hauptmann admitted to making several purchases with the ransom money (FBI, 2010).
This case illustrated that there were real consequences to white collar crime. In addition to paying the fifty million dollar fine, he relinquished another fifty million dollars of his illegal trading profits. (He still had millions remaining, however, from his illegal gains.) His actual prison sentence was three years, yet he served only twenty-two months in the federal prison at Lompoc, California, which was known to have a “country-club” atmosphere.