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White Collar Crime

Subjects : law, business-skills
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1. Directing patients to the clinic's pharmacy to fill unneeded prescriptions






2. At one point the most-wanted computer criminal in the U.S. and was convicted of various computer and communications related crimes






3. Corporations operating in third-world countries include highly hazardous and dangerous working conditions at industrial facilities; exportation of unsafe products






4. Refers to illegal activity that occurs in the world of finance and financial institutions






5. Bankruptcy method used to avoid meeting certain burdensome finical obligations - including obligations to creditors






6. 1980s dubbed as the 'biggest bank robbery' ever - S&Ls offered unrealistically high interest rates to attract large sums of money - money invested was then lent to developers engaged in highly speculative (risky) projects; which bound to go broke unl






7. Goods and supplies that are delivered and paid for but cannot be accounted for by sales or stockroom surveys [because the items disappeared]






8. Galleon Hedge Fund Case was one of the largest hedge funds in the world managing over $7 Billion. - Believed to have obtained inside information from a number of companies - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. - Goldman Sachs Group - Intel Corporation - Raj






9. Corporations used to annihilate their competitors by undercutting their price and by pressuring dealers - sales agents - unions - and other parties not to work with their competitors






10. Is the act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information - rather than by breaking in or using technical cracking techniques






11. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement






12. Gaining unauthorized access to computer system - file or network by using their specialized knowledge of computers






13. 1/3 of the us adult population has been victimized by some form of consumer fraud - Estimated costs over $100 billion annually - Major causes of this large degree of victimization - Advances in technology (faceless perceptions and victims) - Globaliz






14. Corporations are increasingly controlled by paper entrepreneurs - or investors who are principally concerned with short-term profit. These investors are far less likely to be strongly committed to product development of to the local communities in wh






15. A situation in which the interests of a person whom serves in their professional role conflict with that person's own private interests as an individual






16. Billing for unnecessary tests and services - is the most common form of medical fraud and it is extremely difficult to prove and prosecute






17. A Corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors in order to obtain control 95% of the market.






18. A producer of asbestos products which was later found linked to an ultimately fatal lung disease resulting from exposure to asbestos. Manville had internal medical reports of asbestosis among its workers; however - based on cost-benefit analysis - it






19. Decreasing the number of high-wage union jobs - reducing wages of US workers - hiring illegal immigrants and the use of offshore plants for cheap workers






20. Was perhaps the single most famous example of a corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors]






21. Karl Marx recognized dark side to most corporations. Marx regarded corporations as a capitalist system that exploits and dehumanizes workers and deprives them of a fair return on their labor. The pursuit of profit is the principle rational for the co






22. Fixed prices or parallel pricing is when the leaders in the industry set inflated prices and supposed competitors adjust their own prices accordingly. Explicit price fixing was prohibited by the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 as a form of 'restraint t






23. Manipulation of products - Short weighing - Bait-and-switch - Collection of taxes on nontaxable items [auto shop labor] - Wage theft






24. A situation in which the interests of a person whom serves in their professional role conflict with that person's own private interests as an individual






25. Corporations with contracts to provide goods and services to the government. [Halliburton no-bid contracts]






26. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as cheating or swindling






27. Hospitals have defraud the government of billions of dollars annually through Medicaid and Medicare. [upcoding - service never performed - kickbacks - and self-referrals]






28. A case in which the Ford company placed the gas tank in the rear of the car to save money on engineering costs. When the car was involved in rear-end collisions the gas tank exploded - burning some people to death






29. Refers mainly to small - inexpensive - and expendable components and tools such as nails - bolts - scrap metals - pliers - and drill bits.






30. The Madoff ponzi scheme was surely the largest in history to date [Started in the 1990s and defrauded thousands of investors of recorded $65 Billion]






31. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as petty theft






32. White hats are good. Black hats are bad






33. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as theft through misrepresentation






34. Refers to buying or selling a security - in breach of a fiduciary duty or other relationships of trust and confidence - while in possession of nonpublic information about the security






35. Your whole family should come in for something that's not that serious]






36. Refers to lawyers engaging in criminal conduct in the course of discharging their professional duties






37. They are the top people in the corporate world - government - and military whom have 'interlocks' - or a complex network of ties - that enable them to advance their interrelated interests and move quite easily between high-level private- and public-s






38. 'offenses committed by either corporate officials or the corporation itself - which benefit their corporation'






39. Send you to a different place when they could have diagnosed it themselves






40. Let the buyer beware - has traditionally regulated the relationship between buyers and sellers






41. 1. It is indirect in the sense that victims are not assaulted by another person 2. The effects of corporate violence are removed in time from the action that caused the harm 3. Involves a large number of individuals acting collectively - which causes






42. High returns are promised - Some early investors may receive payoffs - but most of the invested money is spent by the perpetrators






43. Refers to plagiarism - embezzlement of university discretionary funds - forgery - claims about credentials






44. Its when a corporation commits criminal offences that are non-violence but have vast political and economic consequences. Sutherland






45. Large corporations taking advantage of political corruption - the absence or paucity of regulatory controls - and the desperation for economic enterprise characteristic of many developing nations






46. Corporate Officials - Directors and Mangers - Outsiders who are 'tipped' [CEO tips family members - 'it going to be a bad month'] - Bankers - accountants and lawyers who provide services with confidential information about securities being traded - [






47. Kenneth Lay - Jeffery Skilling - Andy Fastile - Luis Barget

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48. Crime that is defined as illegal or harmful conduct committed specifically in the context of their religious entity such as a religious leader may generate a bottomless donation basket for gullible believers to offer money which is used for corrupt p






49. Refers mainly to basic - bulky components and tools






50. Price gouging or systematic overcharging - have also been directed at various industries and corporations when they take advantage of especially vulnerable classes of consumers or circumstances such as shortages. Many states prohibit price gouging by