White Collar Crime
They make and enforce the regulations that protect the quality of our food
What is the Food and Drug Administration?
A system of organized crime traditionally involving the extortion of money from businesses, by intimidation, violence or other illegal methods
What is racketeering?
The amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol (1918).
What is the 18th?
A criminal homicide that encompasses a killing done without intent to kill, and as a result of criminally negligent conduct on the part of the defendant
What is involuntary manslaughter?
He was the first person to walk on the moon
Who was Neil Armstrong?
Laws protecting trade and commerce from restraints, monopolies, price-fixing and price discrimination to ensure and preserve a competitive economy fall under this category
What are anti-trust laws?
The full name of the major law targeting organized crime.
What is the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act?
These drugs are made in labs not subjected to control standards or governmental oversight
What are designer drugs?
Taking a person without consent, by force or fraud without a lawful excuse
What is kidnapping?
The title of George Orwell’s novel about a totalitarian society in which “Big Brother” watches over citizens’ every move
What is “Nineteen Eighty-Four”?
He ran the largest Ponzi scheme in history - stealing 65 billion dollars.
Who is Bernie Madoff?
The major difference between terrorist groups and traditional organized crime or street gangs.
What is the ideological message or motive?
The blood alcohol level to be considered drunk (for a DUI) in Illinois
What is .08 or higher?
Crime that is more than an unlawful assembly, but not yet a riot
What is a rout?
This is the smallest country in the world (by land mass)
What is Vatican City?
A financial instrument that represents an ownership position in a public corporation (stock) or creditor relationship with the government (bond) or ownership option rights.
What is a security?
The practice of lending money at excessive rates or using extortion to enforce repayment
What is loan sharking?
The major federal law that deals with illegal drugs
What is the Uniform Controlled Substance Act?
The name of the exception for statutory rape, when the offender and victim are close in age.
What is the Romeo and Juliet Exception?
The name of the country located in the Andes Mountains and known for its Machu Picchu ruins
What is Peru?
Crime where a broker buys a lot of small securities without regard for the client, with the intent to advance own interest (i.e., commission)
What is broker-dealer fraud or churning?
The former boss of the Gambino crime family known as the Teflon Don
This crime can be proven circumstantially by evidence such as: 1) Possession of a large quantity worth a lot of money; 2) Possession of manufacturing or packaging material or; 3) Activities or statements of the person in possession
What is possession with intent to deliver?
The two constitutional amendments where you find the due process clause
What are the 5th and 14th?
He (finally) won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in The Revenant
Who is Leonardo DiCaprio?