Program Number: C020-19092006
Ethics
Category Type: 3
Subject Areas
Knowledge: 10
Process: 06
Application/Specific Interest Groups: 30
Activity Sponsor: PMINJ Chapter (C020)
PDUs: - 1.5
Leadership - 0.5
Strategic - 0.5
Technical - 0.5
Christopher J. Christie addressed 'Why Ethical
Behavior Is Important in Corporate, Government and Public
Institutions'. As United States Attorney, Christopher
J. Christie has overseen a number of criminal and civil
prosecutions. One of the most recent dramatic
examples has been at the University of Medicine and
Dentistry of New Jersey. The scandal of UMDNJ’s
purposeful over-billing of Medicaid led to an ongoing series
of financial, management and personnel reforms required to
avoid criminal prosecution for health care fraud under terms
of a Deferred Prosecution Agreement. UMDNJ is a
striking example of an organization in which an underlying
lack of strong ethical behavior appears to have permeated
the senior levels of its management to a significant
degree. Having witnessed many examples of corporate
fraud and ethical misbehavior and the negative consequences
of these misdeeds, Mr. Christie understands why defining and
ensuring the application of ethical behavior throughout the
workplace is important. Both sound ethical policies
and the expectation of ethical behavior in the workplace are
important for economic progress, social stability, and
public trust in corporate, government and public
institutions.
Christopher Christie - United States
Attorney
Bio:
Mr. Christie is a graduate of the University of Delaware,
and Seton Hall University School of Law, where he received
his Juris Doctor degree in 1987. Chris was admitted to the
Bar of the State of New Jersey and the Bar of the United
States District Court, District of New Jersey in 1987. From
1995 to 1997, Chris served as a Morris County Freeholder,
and he was elected Director of the Board in 1997. He was
nominated by President George W. Bush to be United States
Attorney for the District of New Jersey on December 7, 2001.
He was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on
December 20, 2001 and sworn into office on January 17, 2002
by the Honorable Joel A. Pisano, U.S.D.J. Chris is in his
fifth year as the chief federal law enforcement officer in
the State of New Jersey. He is in charge of a 139
lawyer operation with offices in Newark, Trenton, and
Camden. Chris served in 2004 and 2005 as one of
seventeen U.S. Attorneys on Attorney General Gonzales'
Advisory Committee. In 2004, Chris was named one of
America's top ten prosecutors by the Corporate Crime
Reporter. Chris has been married to his wife Mary Pat
for 20 years, and they are the parents of four
children.
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