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White Collar Crime

Subjects : law, business-skills
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1. 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)






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






3. 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






4. 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






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






6. 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






7. 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.






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






9. 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






10. 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






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






12. 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






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






15. 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






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






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






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






19. 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






20. 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






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






22. 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






23. White hats are good. Black hats are bad






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






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






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






27. 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






28. 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






29. 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.]






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

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






32. 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






33. 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 - [






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






35. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement






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






37. Refers mainly to basic - bulky components and tools






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






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






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






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






42. 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






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






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






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






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






47. 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






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






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






50. 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