The Ultimate (and Practical) Guide To Understanding White Collar Crime
Epilogue
When people read broadly (including the fine print), I heard a wise man say, they received an education. When they didn’t, they received experience instead. Reading the “fine print” required skills that I didn’t have after college or early in my career. Such skills...
Albert’s Exposure to Bribery Charges (Chapter 15)
In the early spring of 2010, Mark Whitacre, a former prisoner, friend and mentor sent me information concerning corporate bribery. The case that Mark suggested I learn from concerned SK Foods, one of our nation’s largest tomato processors. According to filings in...
Jason’s View on Caveat Emptor (Chapter 14)
The Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana wrote that those who didn’t understand history were doomed to repeat it. Santayana taught the kinds of abstract lessons that I should have paid more attention to learning and comprehending when I studied at USC. I...
Peter’s Going to Federal Prison Camp (Chapter 13)
Peter’s Going to Federal Prison Camp When I spoke with audiences about taking steps to cultivate habits that lead to good character I always invited questions. Understandably, people frequently told me during those exchanges that they considered themselves ethical...
Fraud Sends Ryan To Federal Prison for 60 Months (Chapter 12)
Chapter Twelve During the nearly 400 days I served in federal prison, I recorded my daily activities. It was a strategy that helped to ensure I was always productive and working toward the goals that I had set. I could use the daily journal entries to measure progress...
Susan Goes To Victorville Federal Prison Camp (Chapter 11)
Susan Goes To Victorville Federal Prison Camp (Chapter 11) Despite the completion of my sentence in August of 2009, the sanctions my judge imposed upon me included a three-year term of supervised release. While under supervised release, a United States Probation...
Cash Structuring Sends Executive to Federal Prison (Chapter 10)
Chapter Ten Jeff’s Cash Structuring Through an invitation from James Sysco, professor of law and ethics at King’s College, I had the privilege of speaking to students, faculty, and the academic community of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Many of those in my audience, I...
Bribery Charge Lands Veteran In Federal Prison (Chapter 9)
Chapter Nine - Derick’s Bribery Charge Professor Bruce Zucker invited me to speak to his business law classes at California State University in Northridge. My memories of studying business law were that the course introduced us to such concepts as the necessary...
David: Beverly Hills Consigliere (Chapter 8)
David: Beverly Hills Consigliere In the spring of 2010, nearly one year after I left the boundaries of Taft’s minimum-security prison camp, I appeared before California’s Department of Real Estate. After a disgraceful departure from my career as a stockbroker at UBS,...
White Collar Crime: Dr. Gary’s Seven Patient Files (Chapter 7)
Dr. Gary’s Seven Patient Files In the fall of 2009 I participated in a radio interview with Frank Mottek on KNX 1070 in Los Angeles. Frank’s business program is popular, with more than 50,000 listeners every day. He invited me to speak with him and his listeners about...
Scam Sends Steve To Pensacola Federal Prison Camp (Chapter 6)
Chapter 6 Tax Scam Sends Steve To Pensacola Federal Prison Camp My past experiences of growing up as a privileged Jewish kid from Encino, and going on to play baseball at USC before beginning a lucrative career as a stockbroker may make it easy for university students...
Willful Blindness Sends Executive To Federal Prison (Chapter 5)
In the fall of 2009 I accepted an invitation to speak at DePaul University from Dr. Kelly Pope, professor of accounting. During my imprisonment, I had the privilege of contributing to the education of business students at DePaul. Dr. Pope sent Karen Chodzicki and her...
Whistle-blowers: The New Corporate Watchdog (Chapter 4)
Whistle-blowers: The New Corporate Watchdog In February of 2010, at the invitation of Professor Mark Mallinger, I addressed an audience at Pepperdine Business School. One guest from the audience asked me about a new whistle-blower initiative by the Securities and...
Mail fraud sends CFO to minimum security camp (Chapter 3)
Joshua contacted me after searching for information on the Web that would help him understand what to expect in federal prison. Like most white-collar offenders, he never envisioned the possibility that he would encounter problems with the law. “I’ve never known...
Life After Federal Prison Camp (Chapter 2)
Although I have never abused alcohol or any other type of substance, I’ve admired the 12-step treatment programs I’ve read about. They were effective in helping millions of people straighten out their lives because those programs emphasized the importance of personal...
Chapter One – Discovering Ethics in Motion (released from federal prison)
Chapter One - Discovering Ethics in Motion My name is Justin Paperny. On 20 May 2009, I was released from the federal prison camp in Taft, California. I was 34 years old, a graduate of the University of Southern California, and a former stockbroker who built my career...
Ethics in Motion – Preface
Preface To Ethics in Motion Since I was a convicted felon, many would see an irony in my having authored a book on ethics. In fact, on 17 May 2010, I was summoned to appear before United States District Court Judge Stephen Wilson and the hearing reminded me of exactly...