Exam 12: Organized Crime in Labor, Business, and Money Laundering

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Anderson provides six reasons for organized criminal involvement in legitimate business.Which of the following is NOT one of those reasons?​

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Seven percent of private-sector American workers belong to a union,a significant increase for organized labor in modern day America.​

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According to Goldstock,labor rackets assume three basic forms: sweetheart deal,siphoning of union funds,and:​

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What are Ronald Goldstock's three basic forms of labor racketeering? Briefly describe each.​

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Once in control of the International Longshoremen's Association,organized crime found that the shipping industry was not an industry that could be dominated by racketeering.​

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Labor racketeering refers to infiltration,domination,and use of a union for personal benefit by illegal,violent,and fraudulent means.​

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​Which war led to the dramatic industrialization of America?

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Money laundering has developed its own lexicon.Which of the following correctly orders the process of laundering of money?​

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According to Abadinsky,which of the following rackets was NOT rampant on the union-controlled New York waterfront?​

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In money laundering,depositing currency into the bank without activating the reporting system is called placement.​

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HEREIU Local 54 in New Jersey has about 22,000 members,most of them employed in the Atlantic City casino business.The local has been controlled by the Philadelphia crime family once headed by which infamous individual?​

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Which of the following elements is typically found in pension fraud schemes?​

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In 1935,the passage of which act gave explicit protection to the rights of workers to organize and engage in collective bargaining?​

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​Ralph Scopo,who was at the center of a "contractors club" that received payments for allocating bids on construction jobs,was a member of which crime family?

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Until 1992,whose multimillionaire sons exercised control over garment-center trucking?​

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What is defined as a specific response to a specific set of injustices at a time when industrial and financial capitalism was establishing its predominance over American society?​

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​Which union is the most important union to come under the domination of organized crime,since virtually every consumer product needs to be transported throughout the country?

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From the first half of the 19th century to the Civil War,criminal conspiracy statutes were used against labor's organizing efforts and strikes.​

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In Chicago,the Laborers' Union has always had close ties to:​

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The _____________ is the largest labor union in the United States.​

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