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White Collar Crime

Subjects : law, business-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. High returns are promised - Some early investors may receive payoffs - but most of the invested money is spent by the perpetrators






2. 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






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






4. Food - transport - medical






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






6. 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






7. 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 - [






8. 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






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






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






11. 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






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






13. Refers mainly to basic - bulky components and tools






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. White hats are good. Black hats are bad






22. 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






23. 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)






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






25. 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]






26. 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






27. 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






28. 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






29. 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






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






31. 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






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






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






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






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






36. 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






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






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






40. 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






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






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






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






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






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. 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






47. 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






48. 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






49. 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






50. 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