Exam 12: Business and Corporate Crimes

These laws prevent acts that take away the freedom of purchasers to buy in the open market and to maintain freedom of competition.

The federal agency that regulates securities trading is the ______.

This is when someone's relationship to another is such that one person should have the other's interests in the forefront of their decision-making without any conflict with any other interest:

Breaking into computer systems with malevolent or innocuous motives is:

Ponzi schemes are:

This is to publish; false or misleading statements; about a product or service; to encourage the sale of the product:

False advertising was not a crime under the common law because the consumer was expected to know that advertisers may exaggerate or even lie about their product; this is called.

OSHA includes a general duty clause that requires employers to furnish their employees with a working environment free from recognized hazards.

This government agency monitors and enforces the levels of harmful contaminants in public water systems and the underground injection of contaminants into ground water that supplies public drinking water:

The FDA is the federal agency that protects consumers from unsafe and adulterated food or drugs.

This is giving or offering to give (or taking) anything of value, to (or received by) a private agent, employee, or fiduciary, with intent to influence the fiduciary's actions:

Insider trading is illegal unless the person does so based on insider information not available to the general public.

The EPA is tasked with protecting all of the following except.

The purpose of this act is to prevent toxic substances in commerce from presenting an "unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment," and to stem the tide of chemical substances and mixtures considered "imminent hazards":

This act imposes penalties on those who knowingly violate federal or state regulations designed to achieve ambient air quality standards established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Anti-structuring laws have to do with.

Whistle-blower protection makes it lawful for an employer to discharge or discriminate against an employee due to the employee's filing of an FLSA complaint.

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) prohibits an employer from failing to pay minimum wages or overtime compensation to an employee, failing to keep work records for each employee, discriminating on the basis of sex by paying different wages for equal work, or using oppressive child labor.

Corporations can be held criminally liable when the following can be proved except:

Using seemingly innocent emails to get the user to open an attachment that will install malware is called phishing.