This paper examines the effect of social media on electoral fraud reporting during the 2011 Duma elections in Russia … fraud. The empirical results point to a strong link between economic modernization in a region and voters' use of social …

collar offenses. For this reason, the strategic enforcement advantages of charging violators with mail or wire fraud are not …

Secondary actors, such as lawyers, accountants, and bankers, are oftentimes critical players in securities fraud. The … manage to remain anonymous participants in securities fraud. Read carefully, Stoneridge instead held that proximity to fraud … versus remote to another's fraud. The principles of cooperation also provide a framework around which we can organize …

This article considers how criminal fraud came to apply to intangible objects. Traditional fraud, while a famously … expressly expanding notions of property, the courts also indirectly expanded property subject to fraud by focusing on the … misrepresentation of a material fact. Because the fraud statutes are based on property losses, punishing such conduct had the effect of …

fraud. We find that firms with well-connected independent directors are less likely to commit fraud, supporting our … firms with a relatively poor legal environment, for firms whose independent directors face strong reputation incentives and …

likelihood of corporate fraud. Using data of 2542 Chinese firms and 17239 firm years from 2010 to 2017, the findings of logistic … negative association between cash compensation of independent directors and corporate fraud. Our findings suggest that if … the negative association between independent directors' compensation and corporate fraud is pronounced in SOEs. The study …