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






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






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






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






6. 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






7. 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






8. 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






9. 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






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






11. 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






12. 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






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






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






15. 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]






16. White hats are good. Black hats are bad






17. 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.






18. 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






19. 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 - [






20. 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






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






22. 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






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






24. Food - transport - medical






25. Refers mainly to basic - bulky components and tools






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






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


28. 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






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






30. 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






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






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






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






35. 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.]






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






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






38. 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






39. 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






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






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






42. 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






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






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






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






46. 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






47. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement






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






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






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