Exam 12: Organized Crime in Labor Business and Money Laundering

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

Organized crime can play a crucial role in limiting competition in the construction industry by enforcing a system of _____________ bidding. ​

Strike insurance is a form of labor racketeering in which the union threatens a walkout and the employer pays to assure a steady supply of labor. ​

Organized crime appears to have been eliminated from which industry in New York? ​

Which war led to the dramatic industrialization of America?

In 1940, the founder and secretary-treasurer of the Chicago Waste Handlers Union was murdered. Which man, who had never been a member of the union or a waste handler, showed up at a union meeting, paid his dues, and on the same night became the new secretary-treasurer? ​

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

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

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? ​

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? ​

Louis ("Lepke")Buchalter revolutionized labor racketeering. Describe the main features of what Buchalter did that were revolutionary. ​

Money laundering has been greatly facilitated by advances in banking technology. ​

The 1935 _________ Act gave protection to the rights of workers to organize and engage in collective bargaining. ​

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

Louis "Lepke" Buchalter revolutionized labor racketeering by infiltrating the businesses and unions that hired him. ​

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

Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union charters often provided the basis for extortion from: ​

Formed in 1903, which union is one of 15 unions that belong to the Building Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO? ​

In 1938, a number of industrial unions led by which individual broke with the American Federation of Labor (AFL)and formed the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)? ​

Money laundering is facilitated through the use of ____________, privately owned online payment systems that allow international payments denominated in the standard weights for gold and other precious metals.