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

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4. 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






5. 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






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






7. 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






8. Refers mainly to basic - bulky components and tools






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






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






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






12. Directing patients to the clinic's pharmacy to fill unneeded prescriptions






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






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






15. 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






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






17. 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






18. 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






19. 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






20. 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






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






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






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






24. An intrauterine birth control device in the 1960's in which it was discovered that bacteria was traveling up the wick of the device into the womb.






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






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






27. 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)






28. 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






29. 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






30. 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






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






32. Food - transport - medical






33. 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






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






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






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






37. 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






38. 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






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






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






41. 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






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






43. 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






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






45. 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






46. 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






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






48. 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






49. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement






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