Flashcards: Corporate crime

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act.

The Madoff investment scandal was a major case of stock and securities fraud discovered in late 2008.

Precarity is a precarious existence, lacking in predictability, job security, material or psychological welfare.

Bribery is the act of giving money, goods or other forms of recompense to a recipient in exchange for an alteration of their behavior (to the benefit/interest of the giver) that the recipient would otherwise not alter.

Minamata disease (Japanese: 水俣病 Hepburn: Minamata-byō), sometimes referred to as Chisso-Minamata disease (チッソ水俣病 Chisso-Minamata-byō), is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning.

RegisterFly was a New Jersey (U.S.) based internet hosting and domain name registrar that had their ICANN-accredited status terminated in March 2007.

Ramalinga Raju (born 16 September 1954) was the former chairman of Satyam Computer Services from 1987 and till 7 January 2009, stepping down admitting to embezzlement of financial figures of the company to the tune of Rs 71.

InnoVida was a manufacturer of building materials, founded by businessman Claudio Osorio.

William Kurt Black (born September 6, 1951) is an American lawyer, academic, author, and a former bank regulator.

New England Compounding Center (NECC) is a compounding pharmacy founded in 1998.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is an an agency of the United States government responsible for consumer protection in the financial sector.

Equity Funding Corporation of America was a Los Angeles-based U.

General Development Corporation, also known as GDC, was the largest land development company in Florida.

Medco Health Solutions, Inc.

FirstEnergy Corporation is a diversified energy company headquartered in Akron, Ohio.

The Olympus scandal was precipitated on 14 October 2011 when British-born Michael Woodford was suddenly ousted as chief executive of international optical equipment manufacturer, Olympus Corporation.

The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was an international bank founded in 1972 by Agha Hasan Abedi, a Pakistani financier.

Media Vision was an American electronics manufacturer of primarily computer sound cards and CD-ROM kits, operating from 1990 to approximately 1995 in Fremont, California.

Minecode, LLC was a privately held IT consulting company based in Bellevue, Washington, United States.

The Life on the Earth - The Summer of Dioxin (いのちの地球 ダイオキシンの夏 Inochi No Chikyuu - Dioxin No Natsu) is a 2001 Japanese dramatic film by Satoshi Dezaki, a joint production between the Magic Bus and the GoGo Visual Planning which recounts the true story of the Seveso disaster, a chemical incident occurred over the Italian town of Seveso in 1976, which is still considered one of the worst ecological disasters in history.

MCI, Inc. (d/b/a Verizon Business) was an American telecommunication corporation, currently a subsidiary of Verizon Communications, with its main office in Ashburn, Virginia.

DHX Cookie Jar Inc.

Polly Peck International (PPI) was a small British textile company which expanded rapidly in the 1980s and became a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index before collapsing in 1990 with debts of £1.

Compass Group plc is a British multinational contract foodservice, cleaning, property management and support services company headquartered in the Compass House in Chertsey, Surrey.

Arthur Andersen LLP v.

The Carrian Group was a Hong Kong conglomerate founded by George Tan, a Singaporean civil engineer working in Hong Kong as a project manager for a land development company.

Crazy Eddie was an American consumer electronics corporation originally headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Jeffrey Lloyd Grayson (May 4, 1942 - November 27, 2009) was an American businessman and criminal.

Samuel D. "Sam" Waksal (born September 8, 1947) is the founder and former CEO of the biopharmaceutical company ImClone Systems.