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White Collar Crime

Subjects : law, business-skills
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1. Manipulation of products - Short weighing - Bait-and-switch - Collection of taxes on nontaxable items [auto shop labor] - Wage theft






2. 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 - [






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






4. 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.






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






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






7. 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






8. Food - transport - medical






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






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






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






12. 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.]






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






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






15. 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






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






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






18. 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






19. 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






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. 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






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






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






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

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






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






27. 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






28. 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






29. 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






30. White hats are good. Black hats are bad






31. 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






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






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






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






35. 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






36. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement






37. 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






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






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






40. 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






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






42. 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






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






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






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






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






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






48. 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






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






50. 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