Frank DiPascali, former CFO for Bernie Madoff, entered a guilty plea to a host of federal charges. As guilty pleas go, the Barometer finds this plea to be one for the books, “I’m standing here to say that from the early 1990s until December 2008, I helped Bernie Madoff and others carry out a fraud. I knew no trades were happening. I knew what I was doing was criminal. But I did it anyway.”
Coming December 2010: the Seventh Edition of Marianne's Businss Ethics book with case studies and reading. Available at cengage.com soon.
Coming December 2010: the Ninth Edition of Marianne's Business: Its Legal, Ethical, and Global Environment
Never trust the people you cheat with. They will throw you under the bus.
Meet Edgar P. Benchley. Charitable people tend to call him a nerd. Others use less subtle descriptions. If you hear Edgar chatting to himself, don't be alarmed. He has an invisible friend who's kind of a cousin to Harvey from the old movie of the same name with Jimmy Stewart.
