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Temple University Fox School of Business Department of Risk, Actuarial Science, and Legal Studies BA 1103: Legal & Ethical Reasoning in Business Week 8 Class Activity Responses Before submitting your Week 8 Class Activity Responses to Canvas, be sure to (i) include your group responses to both the The Case of the Stolen Tiffany Jewelry class activity and the White Collar Crime Magazine class activity on this form, and (ii) for each activity, identify in the space immediately below the substantive contributions that each group member made in connection with this activity (e.g., “Nicole Johnson - researched and drafted initial response to question #1 and reviewed and edited responses to remaining questions”). If a group member is absent or does not substantively contribute to the group activity, please do not list the student’s name. The Case of the Stolen Tiffany Jewelry Student name and contribution: Student name and contribution: Cece Moore, Question 2 Student name and contribution: Ivan Herrera. Question 3 Student name and contribution: Benjamin Sogoti, Question 1 White Collar Crime Magazine Student name and contribution: Ivan Herrera Student name and contribution: Cece Moore Student name and contribution: Benjamin Sogoti The Case of the Stolen Tiffany Jewelry Class Activity Please respond to the following: 1. If your group were the judge and jury, how would you decide this case? Be certain that you explain and justify your answer. After analyzing the above statutes, be certain that you define wire fraud and interstate transportation of stolen property and include the elements of these crimes as part of your answer.

If were the judge in our group, we decide that Lederhaas-Okun is more appearing guilty than innocent of the Accession because: First, the jewelry she claimed she left in the office was not found when the company did the search. Second, the company also found some emails between her and the reseller from her work computer. Additionally, she signed a document saying that the jewelry were her own personal items and belonged to her.“The crime of wire fraud occurs when someone voluntarily and intentionally uses an interstate communication (such as a phone or computer) as a part of any scheme to defraud another of property or anything else of value.” 2. What additional information would you like to have? Should she be charged with any additional federal crimes and/or state crimes? Why? We would like to know additional information about the time and dates of the alleged stealing as well as Ingrid’s prior criminal record. We believe Ingrid should also be charged with embezzlement. Embezzlement is where an employee steals money (or other property) over a long period of time. In this case, Ingrid was a trusted employee with a vice president job title. She used her authority and the company’s trust to slowly take jewelry from the company for her own personal gain. 3. From a management perspective, does Tiffany’s have any ethical responsibility for the thefts? What checks should Tiffany’s add to prevent similar thefts in the future? What inventory control techniques might be more effective? Tiffany should be performing better inventory checks on all their products just to make sure situations like this one don’t occur often. Some checks Tiffany can add in the future to prevent this from happening again can be checking the inventory on lower costs jewelry so instead of only doing a daily inventory check on jewelry worth $25,000 and up switch it up to daily inventory checks on jewelry worth $5,000 and up. An inventory control technique that Tiffany could use is the ABC Analysis essentially what this is the company’s inventory is separated into 3 different classes, A class is the most expensive items, usually a small inventory of these items B class is Average prices with a normal amount of inventory and C class low priced items with the highest amounts of inventory. If they were to daily check items in the A and B classes I believe they could prevent another event like this from happening

White Collar Crime Magazine Class Activity Please insert the text of your magazine article draft on the following page(s): Bill Omar Carrasquillo was sentenced to prison for 5 and a half years. He was found guilty of multiple white-collar crimes. The crimes are More than $30 million in the forfeiture and more than $15 million in restitution. Judge Harvey Bartle III, a United State District Judge found him guilty of many copyright infringement schemes such as piracy of cable TV, wire fraud, access device fraud, money laundering, and hundreds of thousands of dollars of copyright infringement. The time frame was between March –-of 2016 to November of 2019. Most of the stolen copyrights were resold to their own subscribers. Carrasquillo also made some fraudulent misrepresentations to merchant processors and banks. As a result, they made money from other people's copyrighted work, and the court considered this thieving. As a group, we see that the punishment was fair and well deserved for the defendant. Although, the only discomfort that I had about the judgment was the court ordered him to pay back the money he gained. It might be quite reasonable to let him serve less than five years in prison. Bill Omar Carrasquillo is being accused of multiple white-collar crimes but specifically copyright infringement which totaled thousands of dollars. Copyright infringement is when a person’s work is copyrighted and is used without their permission which could make the person whole stole the work lots of money. The Elements behind Copyright Infringement are the plaintiff must prove ownership of the work, they must also show clear evidence of the defendant stealing their work and using it as their own. Copyright Infringement can be considered a crime under criminal law because you are stealing someone else’s work for your financial gain which is essentially theft which is a criminal case. Just because you’re not physically taking something from someone else doesn’t mean you aren’t stealing from them. Copyright infringement causes harm to the plaintiff because it could possibly lose them money if other people are stealing their work and claiming it as theirs, so financial loss is a harm for Copyright infringement. Eastern District of Pennsylvania | Leader of Illegal Copyright Infringement Scheme Sentenced to 5 ½ Years’ Imprisonment | United States Department of Justice

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