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White Collar Crime

Subjects : law, business-skills
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1. 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.






2. 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






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






4. 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






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






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






7. 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






8. 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.]






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






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


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






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






13. 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






14. 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






15. 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






16. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement






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






18. 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






19. 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






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






21. 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






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 theft through misrepresentation






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






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






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






27. 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






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






29. 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]






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






31. 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






32. 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






33. 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






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






35. 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)






36. 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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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 - [






43. Refers mainly to basic - bulky components and tools






44. 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






45. 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






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






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






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






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