Definitions
Conduct that is prohibited and punished by a government.
What is Crime
Held responsible for the acts of employees.
What is Corporate Liability
Wall Street in 1988, The Insider Trading and Securities Fraud Act
Who Micheal Milken and Ivan Boesky
Latin term tortus, which means, "crooked", dubious, twisted."
What is Tort
Entering someone's house without his or her permission is an interference and constitutes
What is examples of tort
Offenses punishable by less than one year in prison are
Define crimes and specify their punishment
What is Detailed criminal codes and statutes
What is the meaning RICO
What is Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
Is a wrong that arises from a violation of a public duty
What is Crime
another type of tort that imposes liability without regard to whether there was any intent to harm or any negligence occurred.
What is Strict Liability
More serious crimes are called
What is felonies
A crime generally consists of two elements
What is Mental state and an act or omission
The act prohibits the knowing and willful participation in a financial transaction when the transaction is designed to conceal or disguise the source of the funds
What is Money Laundering Control Act (MLCA)
Careless actions, or actions taken without thinking through their consequences, constitute
What is Negligence
is intentional conduct that threatens a person with a well-founded fear of imminent harm coupled with the present ability to carry out the threat of harm
What is Assault
Is generally considered business crime
What is white collar crime
Judges are able to, in effect, place corporations on probation
what is Corporate Integrity Agreements
Federal crimes such as securities fraud, antitrust violations, racketeering, theft(embezzlement), Medicare fraud and other business crimes individual are sentenced under
What is Federal Sentencing Guidelines
the intentional detention of a person without that person’s consent
False Imprisonment
The right to privacy is the right to be free of unreasonable intrusion into one’s private affairs
What is Invasion of Privacy
Committed before the actual crime
What is conspiracy
the defendant make restitution
What is pay the victim the amount of medical expenses or loss of income caused by the crime.
The U.S. government confiscated from confessed $50 billion Ponzi schemer
Who is Bernie Madoff
Is a false statement by one party about another to a third party
What is defamation?
the intentional, wrongful touching of another person without that person’s consent
What is battery