Name that Crime
Security & Trust
Environmental Crime
A Fraud
Government-Related Crimes
100
In general, this refers to violations of the law by persons with high scocioeconomic status
What is white collar crime?
100
Includes all acts of illegal manipulation or deception that affect the exchange of securities
What is securities fraud?
100
Most of the attempts to regulate acts that damage the environment invovle these two types of law.
What are administrative and civil law?
100
Cognress enacted the federal fraud statutes to criminalize the use of these to carry out an interstate scheme to defraud people of money or other property rights.
What are the postal service and wires (radio, television, internet? (Mail and Wire Fraud)
100
Interference with the orderly processes of civil and criminal courts (e.g., refusing to provide evidence) is known as...
What is obstruction of justice?
200
A willfull attempt to avoid paying taxes
What is tax evasion
200
Information known to corporate officers (or others) before it is available to the public.
What is insider information?
200
This is the primary agency charged with protecting the environment.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
200
This is one of the most common forms of bank fraud.
What is check kiting? (Writing checks without sufficient funds)
200
This refers to any willfull, unlawful behavior by public officials in the course of their official duties.
What is official misconduct (in office)?
300
The offering or receiving of money, goods, services, information, or anything else of value for the purpose of influencing public officials to act in a particular way
What is bribery?
300
Type of transaction that exists when officers, directors, and/or stockholders exchange buy and sell corporate shares based on insider information.
What is insider trading?
300
Protection of the environment is often controversial because regulations to protect the environment may and often do conflict with these competing interests.
What are business interests?
300
Service providers charging insurance for unnecessary and costly medical procedures is an example of this.
What is health care fraud?
300
Making false statements under oath in a judicial proceeding.
What is perjury?
400
The unlawful demand for money or property by threatening bodily harm or exposure of information that is disgraceful or criminal.
What is blackmail?
400
Laws designed to ensure fair competition and free enterprise in the private economic marketplace
What are anti-trust laws?
400
Several health problems including cancer, genetic mutation, birth defects, etc. have all been linked to this.
What is toxic waste?
400
Most health care fraud occrs in these two federal programs.
What are Medicare and Medicaid?
400
A civil or criminal legal action imposed on a person who has violated a court order.
What is contempt?
500
An agreement with another to work together for the purpose of committing an unlawful act, or agreement to use unlawful means to commit an act that would otherwise be lawful.
What is conspiracy?
500
Two or more competing parties (e.g., Pepsi and Coke) acting together to fix prices is a violation of federal law under this act.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
500
This type of prosecution is rarely successful in environmental cases.
What is criminal prosecution?
500
This type of fraud dramatically increased with the downturn of the United States economy in 2008.
What is mortgage fraud?
500
In Miller v. United States the court ruled that these statutes applied to all people not just those of a specific color, race, or alienage.
What are civil rights statutes?
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