Roger is the CFO of a corporation and had a business dinner with some of the company's largest shareholders. Roger knowingly and intentionally started drinking a variety of alcoholic drinks and even excused himself to secretly snort cocaine in the men's room. By the end of the evening, he obviously intoxicated. His dinner companions kept buying more rounds of drinks, and Roger needed no urging to continue drinking. By dessert, he was obviously extremely intoxicated. At that point, his companions asked him to sign a variety of documents, which he did not read due to his condition. The documents turned out to be falsified financial statements, which were then supplied to the accountants who were auditing the company. Is Roger guilty of criminal fraud?

Voters commonly condemn politicians for being insincere, but politicians often must disguise their true feelings when they make public statements. if they expressed their honest views—about, say, their party's policies—then achieving politically necessary compromises would be much more difficult. clearly, the very insincerity that people decry shows that our government is functioning well. which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this reasoning? (a) achieving political compromises is not all that is necessary for the proper functioning of a government. (b) some political compromises are not in the best long-term interest of the government. (c) voters often judge politicians by criteria other than the sincerity with which they express their views. (d) a political party's policies could turn out to be detrimental to the functioning of a government. (e) some of the public statements made by politicians about their party's policies could in fact be sincere.