Exam 8: Business Crime

Joan Blondell has been CEO of Xenon Corporation for five years.Following an SEC investigation,Xenon and Joan were both charged with fraudulent financial statements.Joan says that she knew nothing about the fraud and feltthat the financial reports were accurate.Which of the following statements is true?​

Employee protection against retaliation for reporting activities is a critical part of crime prevention under U.S.guidelines.

Which of the following statutes applies to the hacking of another's computer or accounts?​

Ann McMillan is a CPA with a public accounting firm.A client of Ann's has called to tell her that the SEC is investigating the company for possible misrepresentations in the company's financial reports.Ann is worried that she may have pushed the envelope in allowing some of the revenues of the client to be reported as they were.Ann shreds several sets of notes from her meetings with the client on revenue recognition.Ann

Joan owns a citrus tree farm near Mesa,Arizona.Joan and her family have fertilized the trees each spring for 52 years.The irrigation for the trees carries the fertilizer remnants into the Salt River.When EPA investigators discover the fertilizer in the Salt River and trace the unique brand to Joan,they indict her for violation of the Clean Water Act,for the discharge of a substance into a waterway.Joan responds,"I didn't know there was fertilizer.I was just letting water flow."

RICO applies only to repeat offenders.

What is usually the basis of RICO civil suits?

The failure to give the Miranda warnings:

A preliminary hearing requires that the defendant take the stand.

Monitors are not permitted to have daily access to a corporation.

Under the sentencing guidelines the Justice Department can agree to a non-prosecution agreement (NPA),but not to a deferred-prosecution agreement (DPA).

Intrabusiness crime is internal or employee crime.

The omnibus hearing is:

The "biggest cyber attack in history" could be prosecuted under which statute?​

Which of the following would be the crime of obstruction of justice?

Which of the following will reduce a corporation's sentence under the U.S.Sentencing Guidelines?

Directors are liable for a crime if the corporation is found guilty of the crime.

A grand jury issues an information.

Some crimes do not carry a mens rea requirement.