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Anuta_ua [19.1K]
2 years ago
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Occupational fraud comes in many shapes and sizes. The fraud at Rite Aid is one such case. On February 10, 2015, the U.S. Attorn

ey's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a former Rite Aid vice president, Jay Findling, pleaded guilty to charges in connection with a $29.1 million dollar surplus inventory sales/kickback scheme. Another former vice president, Timothy P. Foster, pleaded guilty to the same charges and making false statements to the authorities. Both charges are punishable by up to five years' imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.
The charges relate to a nine-year conspiracy to defraud Rite Aid by lying to the company about the sale of surplus inventory to a company owned by Findling when it was sold to third parties for greater amounts. Findling would then kick back a portion of his profits to Foster.
Findling admitted he established a bank account under the name "Rite Aid Salvage Liquidation" and used it to collect the payments from the real buyers of the surplus Rite Aid inventory. After the payments were received, Findling would send lesser amounts dictated by Foster to Rite Aid for the goods, thus inducing Rite Aid to believe the inventory had been purchased by J. Finn Industries, not the real buyers. The government alleged Findling received at least $127.7 million from the real buyers of the surplus inventory but, with Foster's help, only provided $98.6 million of that amount to Rite Aid, leaving Findling approximately $29.1 million in profits from the scheme. The government also alleged that Findling kicked back approximately $5.7 million of the $29.1 million to Foster.
Foster admitted his role during the guilty plea stage of the trial. He voluntarily surrendered $2.9 million in cash he had received from Findling over the life of the conspiracy. Foster had stored the cash in three 5-gallon paint containers in his Phoenix, Arizona, garage.
Assume you are the director of internal auditing at Rite Aid and discover the surplus inventory scheme. You know that Rite Aid has a comprehensive corporate governance system that complies with the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley and the company has a strong ethics foundation. Moreover, the internal controls are consistent with the COSO framework.
1. To encourage various groups to come forward and report fraud, Dodd-Frank extended whistle-blowing privileges and rewards to which of the following?
A. Internal auditors.
B. External auditors.
C. The CEO.
D. All of these are correct.
2. Whistleblowers who meet the criteria are eligible to receive an award based on what was collected as a result of the monetary sanctions. This can vary from_________.
a. 1 to 10 percent.
b. 10 to 30 percent.
c. 15 to 35 percent.
d. 1 to 50 percent, depending on the magnitude of the fraud.
Business
1 answer:
Sliva [168]2 years ago
7 0

Answer:

1. To encourage various groups to come forward and report fraud, Dodd-Frank extended whistle-blowing privileges and rewards to which of the following?

D. <u>All of these are correct.</u>

2. Whistleblowers who meet the criteria are eligible to receive an award based on what was collected as a result of the monetary sanctions. This can vary from_________.

a. <u>1 to 10 percent.</u>

<u></u>

Explanation:

<em>In whistleblowing against a fraud in a company or an organization, the maximum amount which the whistleblower can receive is 10% of the money recovered (or involved) while the least amount would be 1% of the said recovered money</em>

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