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White Collar Crime

Subjects : law, business-skills
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1. 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






2. In the Anglo-American tradition - the earliest corporations were churches - towns - guilds and universities - 'town saloon'. Over time - these corporations were recognized as trusts with legal control over certain property. These trading corporations






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






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






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






6. Activities deviating from norms of employers - professional associations - or coworkers within an occupational setting - such as malingering or sexual harassment






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






8. 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






9. 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






10. Refers to monogrammed clothing - wallets - jewelry - personally modified tools






11. White hats are good. Black hats are bad






12. 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






13. Major corporations cost US taxpayers huge amounts by evading their fair share of the tax burden






14. 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






15. Refers to illegal activity that occurs in the world of finance and financial institutions [Can be committed to benefit financial institutions - such as banks - or for the benefit of individuals - such as investment bankers.]






16. Cheating employees out of overtime pay (Wal-Mart) - Denying workers their pensions (Police Agency) - and Extortion (falsely accusing employees of theft to comp their pay






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






18. Ponzi Schemes has (no a product) - While a Pyramid Scheme (has a product






19. 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]






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






21. 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






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






23. To conceal their own errors [make it look like it was the manager's fault] - To gain time off - For more pay [brake a system so they can charge to fix it] - To express their contempt and anger with their work and employer






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






25. Pyramid Scheme (has product) - A variant of a Ponzi Scheme - Involves recruiting other people into the business in other to sustain profit rather them a truly profitable enterprise [MonVie Acai Berry juice






26. Internal computer crimes (sabotaging programs) - Telecommunications crimes (hacking) - Computer manipulation crimes (embezzlements and fraud) - Computers in support of criminal enterprises - Hardware / software thefts (corporate level mainly)






27. 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






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






29. 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






30. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. The Hooker Chemical Corporation bought the canal; drained it - and began dumping metal drums filled with highly toxic chemical wastes. Eventually the property was acquired by a local school board - and both a school and residential neighborhood were






38. 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






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






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






41. The corporate empires of the robber barons (for example: Rockefeller - Carnegie - Vanderbilt - Gould - and Frick) of the second half of the 19th century were involved in every manner of bribery - fraud - stock manipulation - predation against competi






42. 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






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






44. 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






45. 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






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






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


48. Stock price dropped dramatically after drug was not approved by the FDA.






49. 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 - [






50. 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