Business Law I

Business Crimes

Write a short essay, between 400 and 500 words, responding to the assignment below. You are expected to utilize the textbook and outside resources to provide accurate and substantive answers to the question. Also, be sure to make use of illustrating examples where appropriate. Submit your work in APA format.

***Find a current news article about a business-related event (anything in the past year is acceptable) that involves a crime or has the potential for criminal prosecutions. Identify possible crimes and evaluate whether the required elements are met and or satisfied.

For example — if the crime is larceny, the requirements are taking of another’s property, the necessary state of mind to know that the property belongs to someone else and the intent to deprive the person of the property. You can identify any defenses. Many of these crimes, elements, and defenses are in the textbook. If the crime you are describing is not in the textbook, enter “elements of __________ (crime) in your search engine.

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In the article, Charity’s Fired Chief to Face Grand Larceny Charges that was published by New York Times on September 23 2014, a service organization’s chief (a Mr. Rapfogel) was accused of financial improprieties. He is said to have deprived the organization about $1 million. The possible crime in this case was larceny and the following elements………..

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501 Words