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White-Collar and Organized Crime MCQ

_____ is defined as encouraging and inducing another to remain a prostitute.

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Correct Answer: Pandering

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_____ is defined as knowing and intentional participation in a scheme or artifice intended to obtain money or property through the use of interstate wire communication.

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Correct Answer: Wire fraud

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_____ is crimes committed by an individual of high status in the course of his or her occupation.

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Correct Answer: White-collar crime

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Is travel Act interstate or foreign travel or use of the mail or of a facility in interstate or international commerce with the intent to distribute the proceeds of any specified unlawful activity or violence or to promote a specified unlawful activity and thereafter to commit or attempt to commit a crime?

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Correct Answer: True

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Is trademark a specific word, phrase, symbol, or logo used to label a commercial product and to distinguish the product from competitors?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as Confidential information that a business relies on for a competitive advantage.

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Correct Answer: Trade secret

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_____ is defined as individuals who provide insider information.

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Correct Answer: Tippers

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_____ is individuals who receive insider information.

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Correct Answer: Tippees

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Is sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 criminal punishment of contracts, combinations, and conspiracies in restraint of interstate commerce?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a securities fraud statute that requires corporate executive officers to certify that corporate financial statements are accurate.

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Correct Answer: Sarbanes-Oxley Act

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_____ is defined as title IX of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, enacted to counter the infiltration of legitimate businesses engaged in interstate commerce by organized crime.

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Correct Answer: RICO

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_____ is spreading false information about a company to drive up the stock price.

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Correct Answer: Pump and dump

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Is occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) a federal law protecting workplace safety?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a plea that has the legal effect of a plea of guilty, but does not constitute an admission of guilt in proceedings outside of the immediate trial.

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Correct Answer: Nolo contendere

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_____ is defined as financial transaction involving proceeds or property derived from unlawful activity.

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Correct Answer: Money laundering

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_____ is using inside information to trade on the stock market.

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Correct Answer: Misappropriation doctrine

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Is mail fraud knowing and intentional participation in a scheme or artifice intended to obtain money or property through the use of the mail to execute the scheme?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the content of books, films, artistic works, musical scores, and other “products of the mind.”

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Correct Answer: Intellectual property

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_____ is defined as use of confidential corporate information to buy or sell stocks.

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Correct Answer: Insider trading

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_____ is stealing of an individual’s personal identifying information.

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Correct Answer: Identity theft

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Is health care fraud fraud in which health care providers or consumers knowingly and willfully execute or attempt to execute a scheme involving false statements intended to obtain, keep, or qualify for benefits or to increase benefits under a federal health care program?

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Correct Answer: True

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Is fraud an intentional and knowing misrepresentation of a material (important) fact intended to induce another person to hand over money or property?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a duty of care owed by a corporate official to the stockholders in a corporation.

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Correct Answer: Fiduciary relationship

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_____ is defined as crimes that damage the natural environment, including harm to the air, water, land, and natural resources.

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Correct Answer: Environmental crimes

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_____ is the obligation either to make corporate information public or to refrain from trading in the corporation’s stock.

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Correct Answer: Disclose or abstain doctrine

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Is cybercrime crime committed through the use of a computer?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a killing for which a business enterprise is held criminally liable.

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Correct Answer: Corporate murder

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_____ is defined as the imposition of vicarious liability on a corporate officer or corporation.

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Correct Answer: Corporate liability

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_____ is a federal law providing that only the “creator” of an intellectual work is free to license the rights to his or her product to other individuals, and that he or she is protected for life plus seventy years.

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Correct Answer: Copyright

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Is computer crime crimes involving the computer, including unauthorized access to computers and computer programs and networks, modification or destruction of data and programs, and the sending of mass unsolicited messages and messages intended to trick and deceive?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is defined as fraud involving the theft of a personal identification number (PIN) or other identifying information used to access money.

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Correct Answer: Access device fraud

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Insider trading is known as the purchase or sale of securities based on information that is not available to the public at large.

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Correct Answer: True

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A trade secret is a specific word, phrase, symbol, or logo used to label a commercial product and to distinguish the product from competitors.

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Correct Answer: False

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______ is defined as an unauthorized access to programs and databases and unlawfully obtaining information through deceit and trickery.

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Correct Answer: Computer crime

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Which one of the following elements is NOT part of money laundering?

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Correct Answer: An agreement between two or more people

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Health care fraud is only punished by a fine.

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Correct Answer: False

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The ______ authorizes the federal government to prosecute what ordinarily are considered the criminal offenses of gambling, the illegal shipment and sale of alcohol, extortion, bribery, arson, prostitution, money laundering, and controlled substances.

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Correct Answer: Travel Act

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With ______ fraud, the communication must cross interstate or foreign business.

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Correct Answer: Wire

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______ are individuals who receive the information regarding insider trading.

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Correct Answer: Tippees

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______ emerged as a subject of interest when it was announced that Martha Stewart was the subject of a criminal investigation for lying to investigators about the sale of stock.

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Correct Answer: Stock market fraud

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Which one of the following types of crime threatens the health and natural resources of the United States?

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Correct Answer: Environmental crimes

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