Ethics Chapters

Ideas about good and bad behavior in our personal relations, online actions and business practices to moral philosophy examining concepts of right and wrong - all this is in the field of ethics.

As a person with dementia tries to convey her thoughts, things don't come out the way she intends. To her, it seems as though the thoughts are trapped...

Benedict Arnold, a general for the Continental Army, devises a plan to yield West Point to the British. His name, forever after, means "traitor" to Am...

John Andre gets caught trying to assist Benedict Arnold in his plan to give-up West Point to the British. Because he is wearing a disguise, Andre is c...

The people prosecuting Joan decide her fate before the trial begins. She is not given a lawyer and the person prosecuting her is also the judge in the...

Elizabeth and her husband go to trial; the jury finds her sane.

After his U-2 plane is shot-down over Soviet territory, Francis Gary Powers must stand trial in Moscow as a spy. Before that, he faces numerous interr...

False evidence and a conviction of treason result in a death sentence for Marie Antoinette.

James Donovan represents Rudolf Abel, an accused Soviet spy, at his trial which takes place in Brooklyn during the fall of 1957.

Even after he was arrested in New York City, during 1935, Victor Lustig was not-yet finished with his lifetime as a con man.

By the time people knew Robert Miller as Count Victor Lustig, the con man was a master at deceiving people with his money-box schemes.

Forced to flee France, because he "sold" the Eiffel Tower to unsuspecting Parisian scrap-metal dealers, Victor Lustig returns to Prohibition-Era Ameri...

A con man who twice sold the Eiffel Tower, for scrap, Victor Lustig (also known as "Tricky Vic") spent a career hoodwinking people for money.

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