Exam 7: Crime and the Business Community

When do mailings sent to facilitate concealment of a fraudulent scheme - to avoid detection,prosecution or conviction - fall within the federal mail fraud statute?

Assuming the requisite elements are proven,which of the following is a defense when it is established that a crime is committed because the person committing the act was threatened with immediate bodily harm or loss of life unless the offense was committed?

Wild Music's confidential client lists also contain financial and credit information for their clients.Delilah e-mails the client list to her home e-mail so that she can analyze and sell information about her clients' spending habits.Delilah's actions could constitute a violation of what law?

Which of the following is true regarding the Fourteenth Amendment?

By her method of payment,Claire is guilty of which offense?

[Wild Music] Delilah worked as a receptionist for Wild Music,a talent agency with many celebrity clients.Delilah also had her own business selling high-end skin care products,which she ran out of her studio apartment.She often contacted skin care clients through her work e-mail,as it was very convenient to search through Wild Music's confidential client list to generate bulk e-mails. -What crime,if any,has Delilah committed?

Which of the following is the term that describes wrongful behavior in a criminal action?

Ordinarily,a law enforcement agent must demonstrate that there is that a suspect committed or is planning to commit a crime in order to obtain an arrest warrant.

Carla learns that her employer,a healthcare facility,is committing fraud against the government by filing false Medicare claims.Under which of the following might she obtain a portion of any recovery obtained by the government?

Which of the following was created specifically to combat white-collar crime?

[Green Gold] Miles owned a factory in which he manufactured furniture.Miles had some extra space in the factory and decided to use heat lamps to grow marijuana.He smuggled the marijuana into the hands of dealers by hollowing out the furniture and placing the marijuana inside.Law enforcement became suspicious and unexpectedly burst into the building without a warrant,discovering the marijuana.Miles asked the agent in charge about the lack of a warrant.The agent told him that Fourth Amendment protections did not extend to businesses.Miles was charged with growing marijuana.Miles refused to testify at trial.At his trial,however,the judge excluded any evidence obtained from the search,and Miles was declared not guilty because there was no evidence against him.The agent was very angry and arrested Miles immediately for the same offense as he was walking down the courthouse steps from the first trial.The agent tells Miles that he should be tried again because the judge was incorrect.Miles is placed in a holding cell and immediately calls his attorney in an attempt to get out of jail free. -Which of the following is correct regarding Fourth Amendment protections for businesses and the necessity of a search warrant prior to a search of a business?

A judge reports that a jury was "hung".What does the judge mean?

When insanity is claimed,the test used to establish one's mental state is the same regardless of the jurisdiction involved.

Which of the following includes destruction of a building using an explosive device?

Mail fraud is a federal crime.

White-collar crime is not punishable by imprisonment under our existing criminal laws.

The misappropriation of trust funds or money held in a fiduciary capacity is which of the following?

When a defendant makes a first appearance,which of the following occurs?

By buying stock,Claire is guilty of which offense,if any?

Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act,it is now a felony to willfully fail to maintain proper records of audits and work papers for at least years.