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White Collar Crime

Subjects : law, business-skills
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1. 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.]






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






3. 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






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






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






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






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






9. 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






10. 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






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






12. White hats are good. Black hats are bad






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






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 Madoff ponzi scheme was surely the largest in history to date [Started in the 1990s and defrauded thousands of investors of recorded $65 Billion]






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






21. 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






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






23. 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






24. Food - transport - medical






25. 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






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






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






28. 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






29. 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






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






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






32. 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






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






34. 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






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


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






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






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






40. 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)






41. 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






42. 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






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






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






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






46. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement






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






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






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






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