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White Collar Crime

Subjects : law, business-skills
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1. For lying about a stock sale conspiracy - and obstruction of justice.






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






3. 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






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






5. 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






6. 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






7. 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






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






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






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






11. 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)






12. 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






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






14. 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






15. 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






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






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






19. 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






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






21. White hats are good. Black hats are bad






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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






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






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

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33. 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






34. Food - transport - medical






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






36. 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






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






38. 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






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






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






41. 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






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






43. Refers mainly to basic - bulky components and tools






44. 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 - [






45. 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






46. 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






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






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






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