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State Of Utah, Plaintiff/Appellee, V. David Bruce Buttars, Defendant/Appellant : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

Brief of Appellee

Appeal from convictions for four counts of securities fraud,
second and third degree felonies, and one count of pattern of
unlawful activity, a second degree felony, in the Third Judicial
District, Salt Lake County, the Honorable Vernice Trease
presiding

State Of Utah, Plaintiff/Appellee, V. David Bruce Buttars, Defendant/Appellant. : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

Brief of Appellee

Appeal from convictions for four counts of securities fraud,
second and third degree felonies, and one count of pattern of
unlawful activity, a second degree felony, in the Third Judicial
District, Salt Lake County, the Honorable Vernice Trease
presiding

Ensemble Methods For Anomaly Detection, Zhiruo Zhao

Dissertations - ALL

Anomaly detection has many applications in numerous areas such as intrusion detection, fraud detection, and medical diagnosis. Most current techniques are specialized for detecting one type of anomaly, and work well on specific domains and when the data satisfies specific assumptions.

We address this problem, proposing ensemble anomaly detection techniques that perform well in many applications, with four major contributions: using bootstrapping to better detect anomalies on multiple subsamples, sequential application of diverse detection

algorithms, a novel adaptive sampling and learning algorithm in which the anomalies are iteratively examined, and improving the random forest algorithms for detecting anomalies in streaming …

The Lumberjack, December 06, 2017

Cal Poly Humboldt's Student Newspaper

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University.

Ethics, Law Firms, And Legal Education, Milton C. Regan Jr.

Maine Law Review

A rash of recent corporate scandals has once again put professional ethics in the spotlight. It's hard to pick up the Wall Street Journal each day and not read that authorities have launched a new investigation or that additional indictments are imminent. Stories of financial fraud and outright looting have galvanized the public and shaken the economy. What ethical lessons can we draw from these events? Two explanations seem especially prominent. The first is a story of individuals without an adequate moral compass. Some people's greed and ambition were unchecked by any internal ethical constraints. For such deviants, no amount …

Visual Logging Framework Using Elk Stack, Ravi Nishant

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Logging is the process of storing information for future reference and audit purposes. In software applications, logging plays a very critical role as a development utility and ensures code quality. It acts as an enabler for developers and support professionals by providing them capability to see application’s functionality and understand any issues with it. Data logging has a widespread use in scientific experiments and analytical systems. Major systems which heavily uses data logging are weather reporting services, digital advertisement, search engines, space exploration systems to name a few. Although, data logging increases the productivity and efficiency of a software system, …

Policy Paper: The Need To Enhance Victims’ Rights In The Florida Constitution To Fully Protect Crime Victims’ Rights, Paul Cassell, Margaret Garvin

Utah Law Faculty Scholarship

Given the emerging consensus concerning victims' rights as reflected in many state constitutions as well as in federal law, Florida should not simply rest on the nearly thirty-year-old provison currently in its constitution. Instead, Florida should, through its established and recognized procedures, expand the protections contained in its provision to cover the rights reflected in provisions enacted across the country and reflected in Marsy's Law.

Revenue Accrual Quality As An Indicator Of Financial Statement Fraud, Meredith Potts Jackson

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This study was conducted to address the need for additional financial statement fraud detection techniques. Accruals were chosen as the focus of this study due to the high likelihood of financial statement manipulation using accruals. Using the Dechow/Dichev accrual quality model, this study tested whether or not accrual quality can be used as an indicator of financial statement fraud. The study concluded that the Dechow/Dichev model found non-fraudulent financial statements to have higher quality accruals than fraudulent financial statements. In addition, accrual quality of non-fraudulent financial statements was found to be significantly different from the accrual quality of fraudulent financial …

Getting To Guilty: The Necessary Shift To Individual Accountability For Corporate Wrongdoing, Paige Wheeler

The Business, Entrepreneurship & Tax Law Review

In September of 2015, Deputy Attorney General, Sally Yates, declared that the Department of Justice would shift its focus to pursuing individual accountability for cases of corporate wrongdoing, This shift reflects a change in directives, as the Department of Justice commonly resolved cases of corporate wrongdoing through the companies themselves prior to what is now commonly known as the Yates Memorandum. The Yates Memorandum centers on the conclusion that one of the most successful ways to tackle corporate misconduct is by making sure that the individuals who are committing the wrongdoing are held accountable for their actions. The Yates Memorandum …

Picking And Choosing Text: Lessons For Statutory Interpretation From The Philosophy Of Language, Victoria Frances Nourse

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Textualists claim that they follow statutory text. This Article argues that, in practice, textualists often create meaning rather than find it. Deploying the analytics of linguistic philosophy, this Article takes a deep dive into textualist methodology. The philosophy of language reveals what legal scholarship has left submerged: The very choice of text can put the thumb on the scales of any interpretation. When one pulls a term out of a statute and isolates it from the rest of the text (what I call “isolationist” method), this decontextualization offers the opportunity for adding and subtracting meaning from the statute by “pragmatic …

Rationing Criminal Justice, Richard A. Bierschbach, Stephanos Bibas

Michigan Law Review

Of the many diagnoses of American criminal justice’s ills, few focus on externalities. Yet American criminal justice systematically overpunishes in large part because few mechanisms exist to force consideration of the full social costs of criminal justice interventions. Actors often lack good information or incentives to minimize the harms they impose. Part of the problem is structural: criminal justice is fragmented vertically among governments, horizontally among agencies, and individually among self-interested actors. Part is a matter of focus: doctrinally and pragmatically, actors overwhelmingly view each case as an isolated, short-term transaction to the exclusion of broader, long-term, and aggregate effects. …

Financial Literacy In China: Priorities And A Direction, Yiqing Yuan, Minchao Jin

Center for Social Development Research

Growing income disparity, a shrinking social welfare system, expanding financial markets, and diversifying financial products have pushed economically vulnerable groups in China into greater disadvantage in recent decades. The government has acknowledged the urgency of this situation, which underscores the micro- and macro-level importance of financial literacy and of its study. In general, there are two priorities in efforts to study financial literacy in China. One is theoretical, and the other is empirical. The theoretical priority, which comes from Western research, is to develop conceptual precision; the financial-literacy framework is not well defined, fails to differentiate among related concepts, and …

Lessons Of The Financial Crisis In Ecuador 1999, Maria Laura Patino L

Law and Business Review of the Americas

No abstract provided.

Enron And The Special Purpose Entities - Use Or Abuse - The Real Problem - The Real Focus, Neal F. Newman

Law and Business Review of the Americas

No abstract provided.

Beyond The Maginot Line: The Real Borders Of Freedom And Security, Hugh Segal

Law and Business Review of the Americas

No abstract provided.

Reexamination Of The Relationship Between Institutional Ownership Horizon And Corporate Social Responsibility, Otgontsetseg Erhemjamts, Kershen Huang

HCBE Faculty Presentations

Institutional investors are increasingly short-term in their orientation, indicated by the record-short periods of time stocks are being held, rise of high-frequency trading, shortening average CEO tenures, and disproportionate Wall Street focus on quarterly earnings. While the increasing prevalence of short-termism has gained the attention of global forums and policy makers, the case for the long-term investment among institutional investors is far from settled in the academic community. Just like classic agency and stakeholder theories offer opposite views, empirical research on the relationship between institutional ownership and corporate social responsibility (CSR) has produced fragmented and contradictory results. Our paper seeks …

Boyd Briefs - Oct. 5, 2017, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Boyd Briefs / Road Scholars

Boyd Briefs provides weekly information regarding the activities and accomplishments of the faculty, students, and alumni of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Who Enforces China’S Anti-Corruption Laws? Recent Reforms Of China’S Criminal Prosecution Agencies And The Chinese Communist Party’S Quest For Control, Lyric Chen

Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review

No abstract provided.

Phh Mortgage V. Nickerson Clerk's Record Dckt. 45146

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Terms Of Service And The Computer Fraud And Abuse Act: A Trap For The Unwary?, David A. Puckett

Oklahoma Journal of Law and Technology

No abstract provided.

Part 5: Organized Criminal Activities

Complete Bibliography

This part contains references to literature that examine the activities associated with criminal organizations. This includes both strategic (i.e., profit-oriented ventures such as drug trafficking, fraud, counterfeiting, prostitution, etc.) and tactical activities (i.e., activities that support the criminal organization and its profit-oriented activities, such as money laundering, violence, corruption, etc.) References are provided for the criminal activities listed below. Within each category are also references to publications that address the control of a particular criminal activity (e.g., enforcement, prevention, laws).

Part 8: Special Topics In Organized Crime

Complete Bibliography

This final part includes literature on special topics in the study of organized crime. In particular, three topics are included in this section: The convergence of organized crime and terrorism); transnational organized crime, women in organized crime, and research organized crime.

The Financial Crisis And White-Collar Crime: An Examination Of Brokerage-Failure And Its Link To Ponzi Schemes, Marie Springer

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The purpose of this study is to provide an understanding of federal level Ponzi schemes, the perpetrators of the schemes and the relationship to the financial crisis of 2007 to 2010. The Ponzi schemes have been classified into two overall types of frauds, those that are intentional frauds those that are accidental frauds. The Accidental frauds are schemes that develop when a legitimate business fails, they fall into two specific typologies: Brokerage-failure; Business-failure. The intentional schemes are a variety of typologies such as False-brokerages, intentional confidence schemes, affinity frauds and cybercurrency frauds. The data quantifies characteristics of the schemes and …

Lessons From The Bankruptcy Of Hanjin Shipping, Yutong Pan

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Monitor’S Report Regarding Compliance By Defendants Ocwen Financial Corporation And Ocwen Loan Servicing, Llc For The Reporting Periods Ended September 30, 2016, December 31, 2016 And March 31, 2017, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Et Al. V. Ocwen Financial Corporation And Ocwen Loan Servicing, Llc

National Mortgage Settlements Digital Archive

No abstract provided.

Protecting Non-Public Information In Community Banks: A Study For Implementing Risk Based Framework For Protecting Non Public Personal Information, Bruce Lee Upton

Theses and Dissertations

In today’s world it seems that cyber hackers, cyber terrorists, and cyber activists make headlines almost every day. Information security has become a major concern for bankers from both a reputation and regulatory examination standpoint. Bank management is tasked to answer a litany of questions. Is my bank secure? What impact does this security have on productivity? What solutions are cost effective? What impact will a security breach have on my bank and respective customer base? Additionally, many bankers don’t have on-staff expertise to answer these questions. Having a framework where bankers can know how likely it is they will …

Have We Overlooked The Benefits Of Nas, James C. Rich

Doctor of Business Administration Dissertations

Are nonaudit services (NAS) good or bad? Regulators, investors, and the professional accounting community have intensely debated this question for the last five decades. While seemingly a simple question, the abundance of conflicting literature surrounding this topic has indicated that the answer is anything but simple. The professional accounting community maintains that joint provision of the audit engagement and NAS results in a more in-depth knowledge base that positively impacts the auditor/client relationship. Regulators and investors have taken an opposing view by arguing that NAS lead auditors to compromise their independence. While an extensive body of literature has sought to …

Punishing On A Curve, Adi Leibovitch

Northwestern University Law Review

Does the punishment of one defendant depend on how she fares in comparison to the other defendants on the judge’s docket? This Article demonstrates that the troubling answer is yes. Judges sentence a given offense more harshly when their caseloads contain relatively milder offenses and more leniently when their caseloads contain more serious crimes. I call this phenomenon “punishing on a curve.”

Consequently, this Article shows how such relative sentencing patterns put into question the prevailing practice of establishing specialized courts and courts of limited jurisdiction. Because judges punish on a curve, a court’s jurisdictional scope systematically shapes sentencing outcomes. …

Sigtarp Quarterly Report To Congress July 27, 2017, United States: Office Of The Special Inspector General For The Tarp

Documents

No abstract provided.

If There's Something Strange In Your Workplace, Who Ya Gonna Call? The Second Circuit Expands Whistleblower Protection In Berman V. Neo@Ogilvy Llc, John K. Mickles

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.