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A Ghostly Musical of Ethic Proportions!
DVDs available for 3 hours Ethics CLE for your office, clients' luncheon, or Bar Association fundraiser CLE! The Great Depression helps us better understand what unethical decisions led to the Great Recession in Misbehavin' at the Menger. Meet the famous ghost, Sally White, and she helps young attorney, Nancy Naivete' find her way back to the future and Decent Food and Drugs.
Our old friends at Decent Food & Drug are meeting at the Menger Hotel for their annual ethics and compliance conference. The Menger is known for its ghosts and famous guests like Mae West and President Roosevelt, and is celebrating its 150th Anniversary, leading some to hope that ghost Sally White will make an appearance.It was one year ago that their President, B. Trey Hastily, was arrested for fraud. During the conference, Nancy Naivete' (Sherry Gibbs Houston) is caught in a storm, and is taken back to 1929 "Dorothy style," where she learns about corporate greed, fraud, the ethics rules, and how one good deed can change some one for good.
Miss Bea Haven (Mary Belan Doggett) runs the Menger Hotel where Nancy is dropped by the cyclone. In 1929, the hotel had already been frequented by Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders, Mae West and Oscar Wilde. Miss Bea doesn't allow hankie pankie in the atrium lobby or horses in the hotel rooms of the Menger. However, she does bend a few rules now and then when the speakeasy is in full swing and the Menger is jumpin'.
Fanny Flapper (Valarie Miller) is booksmart, but ignores her ethical compass when she proclaims "Anything Goes" and follows Charles Ponzi into his scheme to defraud investors. The late 1920's knew wealth like America had never seen, but greed and lack of government regulations caused a collapse of the economy that took ten years to recover.
America was the land of opportunity for Charles Ponzi (Jeff Gifford) when he got off the boat in New York from his home country of Italy. He had nothing to sell but hope of riches that came easily and often. His famous Ponzi scheme robbed millions of dollars from unsuspecting investors before the Security Exchange Commission was created due to the stock market crash of 1929. In 2009, Bernie Madoff was discovered to have a performed a similar scam, this time worth a purported 50 billion dollars of fraud. The SEC did not discover the fraud despite many apparent opportunities and complaints.
