Week 7 P - Identify and provide examples of the legal ramifications

W7 P

You decide to do some research on recent court cases (not more that 5 years old) involving fraud by selecting a court case related to your assigned area (inventory or travel) from the KU library (using the  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.  if you were assigned inventory you would select a case related to inventory tax fraud, and identity theft in inventory fraud.. 

Analysis Requirements:

Based on your readings, peer reviewed literature, and the Fraud Examiners Manual include the following in your discussion:

· Identify and provide examples of the legal ramifications related to fraud in the case you found related to your assigned topic. How do you think this case would be related to your previous research on inventory or travel expense fraud?

· Identify laws (no more than 2) that preserve the rights of individuals suspected of committing the fraud in the case 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. 

· 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. 

Writing/Presentation Requirements:

· The body of Part 3 should be 3 - 4 pages (excluding cover page, abstract and references page). Please do not write more than 4 pages. Make your analysis concise while answering the specific questions asked.

· This research paper requires at least   two references: academic journals, professional journals, laws, regulations, and/or appropriate authoritative references identified by the instructor. One of the sources will include the 3 cases selected from Westlaw..  Two sources must be applicable laws. The remaining sources must be from scholarly sources.

· All research papers are submitted in APA format for sources and citations.