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White Collar Crime

Subjects : law, business-skills
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1. 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






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






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






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






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






6. 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






7. 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






8. For lying about a stock sale conspiracy - and obstruction of justice.






9. A type of Employee Crime: the destruction or fraudulent appropriation of another's money which has been entrusted to one's care






10. 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






11. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. 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)






21. 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






22. 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.]






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






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






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






26. 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






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






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






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






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






31. 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






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






33. 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






34. White hats are good. Black hats are bad






35. 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






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






37. 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






38. 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






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






40. 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






41. 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






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

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43. 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






44. 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






45. 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






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






47. 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






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






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






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







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