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One of the hottest topics in the business world currently is white-collar crime. Many businesses are finding themselves unwitting victims of the government's growing tendency to criminalize a wide variety of business activities. Now companies can benefit from the extensive experience of top corporate law expert Roger Magnuson. ... Read more

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A collection of the major articles that have appeared in the Meckler journal, "White Collar Crime Reporter", since its inception. Amongst the many subjects discussed are RICO, money laundering and securities frauds. ... Read more

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This is a review and synthesis of the literature on white-collar crime. It is an attempt to encourage critical thought about the nature of crime, law, and criminal justice by examining white-collar crime. One of the unique themes of the work is an ongoing comparison between white-collar and conventional crime with the implication that learning about white-collar crime simultaneously teaches us something about conventional crime and criminal justice. ... Read more

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These readers, designed to give students a deeper taste of special topics in criminal justice, include free access to InfoTrac? College Edition. The timely articles are selected by experts in each topic from within InfoTrac College Edition. ... Read more

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"White-collar criminals continue to pick our pockets to the tune of $300 billion every year. These 'socially acceptable' criminals rob more from companies and individuals with a pen or key stroke than a street thug can plunder with a high-powered pistol." —from the Introduction

In Masters of Deception, former special agent and intelligence officer Louis Mizell addresses the growing problem of white-collar crime in America. Using actual cases, Mizell exposes scores of perpetrators and their modus operandi, and offers invaluable advice on what to look for, how to avoid being a victim, and how to fight back.

Praise for Louis Mizell and Masters of Deception

"Mizell stands out as a true expert in crime and terrorism who earned his title fighting the bad guys in back alleys, courts, corporate suites, and the new global economy. No one else out there can match his knowledge of what the bad guys are doing and how." —James Grady, author of Six Days of the Condor and White Flame

"Masters of Deception exposes little known facts that should be revealed to the unsuspecting public. Mizell may well be the next Ralph Nader in exposing the many ways innocent people are victimized by white-collar crime." —Dr. Richard Ward, Associate Chancellor and Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Chicago at Illinois

White-collar crime is an alarming epidemic that has reached every big city and small town in America. Invading all sectors, from health care and religion to law and education, it claims millions of victims, and bilks taxpayers out of billions of dollars every year. In Masters of Deception, top crime expert Louis Mizell addresses this serious—and costly—problem, exposing some of the most notorious offenders, and providing precautionary measures everyone should take to avoid being "taken to the cleaners."

Leaving no get-rich-quick stone unturned, white-collar criminals strike from every angle. Whether they're doctors overbilling patients, charity workers pocketing donations, or lawyers abusing powers of attorney, their fraudulent practices cost individuals, companies, and institutions billions of dollars. Consider the following:

• Every year an average of $160 million is stolen or embezzled from schools and colleges all over the country
• Insurance fraud—property, casualty, and health—is a $95 billion-a-year scam
• Credit card fraud costs taxpayers nearly $3 billion per year
• Dishonest lawyers pocket more than $14 billion annually
• More than $21 billion is being stolen from charities each year

In Masters of Deception, Mizell explores the full spectrum of white-collar crime and the misuse of power by professionals we trust, including health care, business, education, and religion. He reveals hundreds of actual cases, from local crimes to such highly publicized incidents as the PTL scandal. With his experienced analytical eye, Mizell is able to spot new and emerging trends and pinpoint signs to look for in identifying potential cons. Sharing his expertise and insight as a former special agent and intelligence officer, Mizell also offers proven tips for fighting back—specific to each sector—as well as an extensive list of contacts for receiving further information, getting help, or reporting a crime.

And anyone who believes that white- collar crime is nonviolent will be shocked to learn that crime in the suites causes as much death and injury as crime in the streets.

Masters of Deception is a timely and authoritative book that will not only raise awareness about white-collar crime, but also allow readers "to empower themselves with enough knowledge to never be a victim." ... Read more

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Masters of Deception Deceives the unwary buyer
This book is little more than a brief summary of newspaper clippings. The author (Louis Mizell) achieves the same ends as the crooks about whom he writes. The unfortunate person who purchases this book believing that it may contain useful information about white collar crime or solid strategies to combat white collar crime becomes a victim of the author's own deception. ... Read more

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The Executive's Guide to Understanding the Laws Behind White Collar Crime is an authoritative, insider’s perspective on key strategies for representing and advising companies facing a criminal investigation. Featuring partners and shareholders from some of the nation’s leading firms, these experts guide the reader through the different phases of a white collar crime case and the key considerations for each phase. These top lawyers reveal their advice to companies on how to handle search warrants and subpoenas, how to conduct internal investigations, how to assess financial implications, and how to make the difficult decision of whether to speak with the government. From common client mistakes and components of client education to strategies for preparedness, including formulating effective compliance programs and advanced planning for crisis management, these authors explain important factors in measuring corporate impact after a white collar crime investigation! and give their checklist items for the essential “lessons learned.” The different niches represented and the breadth of perspectives presented enable readers to get inside some of the great legal minds of today, as these experienced lawyers offer up their thoughts around the keys to navigating an increasingly-enforced and rapidly-changing area of law.Chapters include:1. John F. Lang, Partner, Loeb & Loeb LLP, “White Collar Crime Attorneys Add Value”; 2. Robert R. Calo, Shareholder, Lane Powell PC, “Standing Between the Government and the Client”;3. John C. Thomure Jr., Partner, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, “Getting Back to Business”;4. Robert N. Miller and Stephanie E. Dunn, Partners, Perkins Coie LLP, “Representing Companies in Federal Criminal Investigations”;5. Karen Patton Seymour, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, “White Collar Crime Defense: An Overview6. Mark J. Biros, Managing Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP, “Keeping Up With a Rapidly Changing Landscape”;7. Eduardo G. Roy, Partner, Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP, “A Step-By-Step Look at Defending A Corporation”;8. Steven Molo, Partner, Shearman & Sterling LLP, “Maximizing the Company’s Chance of Successfully Resolving a Government Investigation”;9. Gary G. Grindler, Attorney, King & Spalding LLP, “White Collar Criminal Defense in the Post-Enron Era: A Multi-Faceted and Expensive Challenge to Corporate America.” ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Criminal Justice, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Agnew's (1992) general strain theory (GST) had been tested across a wide range of populations and on numerous criminal and analogous behaviors. The ability of GST to predict white-collar offending, however, had yet to be explored. Using data from convicted white-collar offenders, this research examined the ability of GST to explain white-collar offenses. The results revealed that GST was useful for predicting a select group of white-collar offenses, but might not be generalizable to individuals committing corporate-type crimes. Additionally, the findings suggested that the types of strain and negative emotion at work for white-collar offenders might vary from those found in other criminal populations. Implications for white-collar crime studies are discussed and ideas for future research are presented. ... Read more

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The picture of crime that dominates the popular imagination is one of unambiguous wrong-doing - manifestly harmful acts that are clearly worthy of condemnation. The accompanying picture of the criminal - the thief, the murderer - is a picture of society's failures - to be cast out and re-integrated through a process of punishment and penance. Our understanding of white-collar crime, by contrast, is pervaded by moral and imaginative ambiguity. Such crimes are committed by society's success stories, by the rich and the powerful, and frequently have no visible victim at their root. The problem of marrying these disparate pictures has led to a confusion of the boundaries of white-collar crime. How is it possible to distinguish criminal fraud from mere lawful "puffing," tax evasion from "tax avoidance," insider trading from "savvy investing," obstruction of justice from "zealous advocacy," bribery from "log rolling," and extortion from "hard bargaining?" How should we, as scholars and students, lawyers and judges, law enforcement officials and the general public, distinguish the lawful from the unlawful, the civil from the criminal?

In the first in-depth study of its kind, Stuart Green exposes the ambiguities and uncertainties that pervade the white-collar crimes, and offers an approach to their solution. Drawing on recent cases involving such figures as Martha Stewart, Bill Clinton, Tom DeLay, Scooter Libby, Jeffrey Archer, Enron's Kenneth Lay and Andrew Fastow, and the Arthur Anderson accounting firm, Green weaves together disparate threads of the criminal code to reveal a complex and fascinating web of moral insights about the nature of guilt and innocence and what, fundamentally, constitutes conduct worthy of punishment by criminal sanction.

Green argues that white-collar crime is best understood through a framework of everyday moral concepts that include not only lying, cheating and stealing, but also coercion, exploitation, disloyalty, promise-breaking, disobediance, and other forms of deception. In the process, he reveals the essentially moral fabric underlying the legal category of white-collar crime. ... Read more

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This is a detailed, well written and easily readible work on the core white collar crimes.From perjury to bribery to obstruction of justice Lying, Cheating, and Stealing is a clever and timely comment on the crimes of the privileged.I read the book for a White Collar Crime seminar at Michigan Law School, which Professor Green taught.Frankly, both the book and the class were worth the price of admission. ... Read more

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""Wayward Capitalists is a rich description of financial crime and enforcement that may be useful as background material to a more rigorous study of the organization of administrative agencies.""-Mark J. Moran, American Political Science Review ... Read more

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This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In criminology, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Criminology, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study and practice of criminology. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com. ... Read more

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<p>This timely supplement updates Kathleen F. Brickey's <i><b>Corporate and White Collar Crime, Fourth Edition</b></i>, through the 2008 Supreme Court Term and features selected court documents and transcripts from major white collar prosecutions.</p><p><u><b>CASE HIGHLIGHTS</b></u></p><p><b>CORPORATE CRIMINAL LIABILITY</b></p><ul><li><i><b>United States v. Stein</b></i>: Should a corporation's willingness to advance legal fees to its employees be deemed evidence of lack of cooperation with the government, as the Thompson Memorandum suggests?</li></ul><p><b>PERSONAL LIABILITY IN AN ORGANIZATIONAL SETTING</b></p><ul><li><i><b>United States v. Skilling</b></i>: Should Ken Lay's fraud conviction have been abated because he died before sentencing and an opportunity to appeal?</li></ul><p><b>SECURITIES FRAUD</b></p><ul><li><b>Problem 5-A</b>: Is a tippee who willfully trades on improperly disclosed information liable even though the tipper did not knowingly make an improper disclosure?</li></ul><p><b>PERJURY AND FALSE DECLARATIONS</b></p><ul><li><i><b>United States v. Ebbers</b></i>: Was Bernie Ebbers denied a fair trial because the government "selectively" immunized witnesses?</li></ul><p><b>OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE</b></p><ul><li><b>Problem 8-3</b>: Did Frank Quattrone "corruptly" endeavor to obstruct an investigation when he encouraged his colleagues to purge files containing documents the government had sought?</li></ul><p><b>BRIBERY OF PUBLIC OFFICIALS</b></p><ul><li><i><b>United States v. Ihnatenko</b></i>: Is the government's payment of cash benefits and other forms of compensation in exchange for the cooperation of a witness an unlawful gratuity?</li></ul><p><b>RICO</b></p><ul><li><i><b>United States v. Stein</b></i>: Did KPMG's refusal to pay its indicted employees' legal fees impermissibly interfere with their Sixth Amendment right to counsel?</li><li><i><b>Anza v. Ideal Steel Supply Corp.</b></i>: Does a company that diverts business from a competitor by illegally undercutting the competitor's prices cause a compensable RICO injury?</li><li><i><b>Williams v. Mohawk Industries, Inc</b></i>: Does an employer's scheme to hire illegal immigrants to keep labor costs low injure legal workers in the labor pool in their business or property?</li></ul><p><b>TAX FRAUD:</b></p><ul><li><i><b>United States v. Cohen</b></i>: Is expert testimony regarding a taxpayer's narcissistic personality disorder relevant to the issue of willfulness?</li></ul><p><b>ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES</b></p><ul><li><i><b>Northern California River Watch v. City of Healdsburg</b></i>: To what extent are waters that are not navigable in fact—such as wetlands—within the reach of the Clean Water Act?</li></ul><p><b>SANCTIONS</b></p><ul><li><i><b>Gall v. United States</b></i>: Must a sentence that substantially deviates from the recommended Guidelines range be justified by extraordinary circumstances?</li><li><i><b>United States v. Martin</b></i>: Is a cooperating witness who provides "extraordinary" assistance entitled to a sentence substantially below the Guidelines range under Booker?</li></ul><p><b>STATUTES AND DOCUMENTS</b></p><ul><li><b>Updated Statutes and Sentencing Guidelines </b></li><li><b>Deferred Prosecution Agreements: </b><i>KPMG and Bristol-Myers Squibb</i></li><li><b>Plea Agreements:</b> <i>Enron Defendants Causey and Fastow</i></li><li><b>Indictments: </b><i>Arthur Andersen, Martha Stewart, and WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers</i></li><li><b>Sentencing Transcript:</b> <i>Martha Stewart</i></li></ul><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p> ... Read more

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Israel, Podgor, Borman and Henning's 2009 Statutory, Documentary and Case Supplement to White Collar Crime, Law and Practice, 3rd Edition. ... Read more