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White Collar Crime Basics

Subjects : law, business-skills
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1. Buying or selling corporate stock by a corporate officer or other insider on the basis of information that has not been made public and is supposed to remain confidential






2. Was the largest pension scam in American history - Ponzi scheme






3. Was the largest pension scam in American history - Ponzi scheme






4. Too much ownership or property - including intellectual property - creates gridlock that results in underutilization of property and stunting of innovation.






5. A preacher who borrowed millions of the ministries dollars






6. Accepted money from Keating - one of the Keating 5






7. A former fertility doctor who used his own sperm to impregnate his patients - without informing them.(1980s)






8. Orange County California became the largest municipality in U.S. history ever to file for bankruptcy. The financial difficulties leading to the bankruptcy were the direct result of an enormous gamble with public funds taken by a county treasurer Who






9. One of the chief figures in the Iran-Contra scandal was Marine Colonel Oliver North - an aide to the NSC. He admitted to covering up their actions - including shredding documents to destroy evidence. IMP. Although Reagan did approve the sale of arms






10. Is the first major overhaul of telecommunications law in almost 62 years. The goal of this new law is to let anyone enter any communications business -- to let any communications business compete in any market against any other.






11. An indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in New Jersey - charging Misulovin and 24 other individuals - 15 of whom were emigres from Eastern Europe - with conspiring to defraud the United States and the state of New Jersey of approximately $






12. Keating's 2000-acre dream community - the single largest real estate venture of Lincoln






13. Irvine. Miami






14. A treasurer-tax collector of the OC - who declared chapter 9 bankruptcy taxed and charged larged interest rates to save OC which left the OC nearly bankrupt






15. Are similarly designed to evade restrictions on insider loans. these arrangements were used extensively in the mid-1980s by thrift officers and directors who - instead of making loans directly to themselves-which would have sounded the alarm among re






16. He accepted $1 million in campaign contributions from the Lincoln Savings head - Charles Keating. Keating had wanted federal regulators to stop 'hounding' his savings and loan association. The committee deemed his misconduct the worst among the Keati






17. A hotel -Oct. 1 - 1988 - Within five months the Federal Government found itself the unproud owner - keating - taking it over after Mr. Keating's Lincoln Savings and Loan and the parent company - the American Continental Corporation - declared bankrup






18. Involved Dow chemicals which caused strange deformities to some living things in the area






19. Microcap stocks - that are often not required to file reports to the SEC






20. 1972; Nixon feared loss so he approved the Commission to Re-Elect the President to spy on and espionage the Democrats. A security gaurd foiled an attempt to bug the Democratic National Committe Headquarters - exposing the scandal. Seemingly contained






21. Around $100000000000






22. Chair of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board eared that the savings industry's risky investment practices were exposing the government's insurance funds to huge losses. for the keating 5






23. A piece of property - usually commercial real estate - is sold back and forth between two or more partners - inflating the sales price each time and refinancing the property with each sale until the value has increased several times over






24. A former bank regulator who developed the concept of 'control fraud' - in which a business or national executive uses the entity he or she controls as a 'weapon' to commit fraud.






25. Exploiting control increases the 'take' from fraud; the need to maintain control causes the leaders to act like 'control freaks' over their citizens and employees; their ability to control their firms and nations makes it difficult to prosecute their






26. Is a United States federal law enacted on July 30 - 2002 - as a reaction to a number of major corporate and accounting scandals including those affecting Enron - Tyco International - Adelphia - Peregrine Systems and WorldCom. These scandals - which c






27. A term used to describe unproven or fraudulent medical practices






28. Were doctors charge extra for one session - unnecessary charges - and billing without an actual visit






29. May 1995 - with charges that its three internationally known doctors --Ricardo Asch - Jose Balmaceda and Sergio Stone -- had taken eggs from women without consent and implanted them as embryos in others.






30. In the 1980s - he ran American Continental Corporation and the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association - and took advantage of loosened restrictions on banking investments. and 5 US senators known as the Keating 5






31. Former 2nd largest Medicaid provider in Florida - Who was arrested later for billing for services that were never preformed






32. Described as 'multiple employer trusts' or 'METs -' as vehicles for marketing health and welfare benefits to employers for their employees.






33. He was an investment broker who illegally manipulated the stock market and in the process redefined the crime of insider trading(1985)






34. Is the practice of engaging in financial transactions in order to conceal the identity - source - and/or destination of money - and is a main operation of the underground economy.






35. Was a real estate agency headed by Keating. Which later added on Lincoln Savings and Loan Association for $51 million - which left the company broke






36. Is the practice of engaging in financial transactions in order to conceal the identity - source - and/or destination of money - and is a main operation of the underground economy.






37. Was the Internet alias of Michael Calce - a high school student from the middle-class suburban area of the West Island in Montreal - Canada who launched a series of highly publicized denial-of-service attacks in February 2000 against large commercial






38. An indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in New Jersey - charging Misulovin and 24 other individuals - 15 of whom were emigres from Eastern Europe - with conspiring to defraud the United States and the state of New Jersey of approximately $






39. Investment operation that pays returns to investors out of the money paid by susequent investors - rather than profit.






40. He testified against Nixon as well as other cabinet members in the Watergate hearings. His testimony helped led to the removal of several White House officials and the resignation of Nixon. Before his testimony he had been a White House lawyer.






41. An opthalmologist Who was convicted in 1984 for unnecessary eye surgeries






42. May 1995 - with charges that its three internationally known doctors --Ricardo Asch - Jose Balmaceda and Sergio Stone -- had taken eggs from women without consent and implanted them as embryos in others.






43. An opthalmologist Who was convicted in 1984 for unnecessary eye surgeries






44. (1) electronic embezzlement and financial fraud; (2) computer hacking ; (3) malicious sabotage - including the creation - installation - or dissemination of computer viruses; (4) Internet scams; (5) utilization of computers and computer networks for






45. Accepted money from Keating - one of the Keating 5






46. A term used to describe unproven or fraudulent medical practices






47. The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989 - igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The five senators - Alan Cranston (Democrat of Calif






48. Was a United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) sting operation run from the FBI's Hauppauge - Long Island - office in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The operation initially targeted trafficking in stolen property but was converted to a pu






49. Was the Internet alias of Michael Calce - a high school student from the middle-class suburban area of the West Island in Montreal - Canada who launched a series of highly publicized denial-of-service attacks in February 2000 against large commercial






50. A brand of superabsorbent tampons made by Procter & Gamble starting in 1975. It was recalled from the market in September 1980 because it was linked to Toxic Shock Syndrome The recall cost Procter and Gamble over $75 million.