Student Center for the Public Trust

Belmont Hosts Ethics Town Hall Meeting

The Center for Public Trust, meeting at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. September 22, 2016.

Belmont University’s StudentCPT Chapter recently hosted an Ethics Town Hall meeting for students to view video clips from the in-process documentary “All the Queen’s Horses,” which chronicles the largest municipal fraud case in U.S. history. In the film, a trusted Dixon, Illinois city employee embezzles $53 million to support her passion for showing world class quarter horses–a crime that went undetected for 20 years.

The Center for Public Trust, meeting at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. September 22, 2016.Moderator and CPT President, Alfonzo Alexander, posed ethical and legal questions to a panel composed of:

  • West Bielstein, Belmont student and StudentCPT Chapter President
  • Dr. Tommy Wooten, Belmont Professor of Accounting
  • Clyde Ingalls, Retired banker and charter member of Belmont’s Edward C. Kennedy Center for Business Ethics Board

The panel also answered questions from the student audience as well.