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White Collar Crime

Subjects : law, business-skills
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1. 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






2. Refers mainly to basic - bulky components and tools






3. 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






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

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






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






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






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






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






10. 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






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






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






13. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. 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






21. 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]






22. 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)






23. 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






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






25. 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






26. Food - transport - medical






27. 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






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






29. 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






30. 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






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






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






33. 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.]






34. 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






35. 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






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






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






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






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






40. 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






41. 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






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






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






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






45. 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






46. 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






47. 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 - [






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






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






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