Deck 18: Organized Crime, Counterterrorism, and Anti-Money Laundering

Question 1

What is one of the criteria to becoming a made man?

A) Donate a large amount of money to a charity.
B) Recruit at least 4 other men to become soldiers in the organizations.
C) Carry out a hit.
D) All of the above.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The La Cosa Nostra/Italian Organized Crime/Labor Racketeering Unit is a crime unit within which organization?

A) FBI.
B) INTERPOL.
C) EUROPOL.
D) Scotland Yard.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

What nationality are all 'made-men'?

A) Greek.
B) Italian.
C) French.
D) American.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

What is the main tool that the FBI has used to investigate and prosecute organized crime?

A) Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
B) Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Statute.
C) Pfizer Court Proceedings.
D) Patriot Act.

Question 5

How does one become an associate in an organized crime family?

A) Be invited to join the organization by a friend.
B) File an application.
C) Be recruited by a head hunter.
D) Start your own organized crime racket and get assimilated by a larger one.

Question 6

How did the FBI catch two of Russia's best computer hackers?

A) Set up a sting operation in Russia.
B) Worked with the KGB to have them extradited to the United States.
C) Asked them to come work for the FBI in the United States.
D) Caught them going to Florida on vacation.

Question 7

In what area has the ROC become especially well known?

A) As computer hackers.
B) As designer drug traffickers.
C) As human traffickers.
D) All of the above.

Question 8

What is the goal of labor racketeering?

A) Control of labor health funds.
B) Control of labor pension funds.
C) Control of labor welfare funds.
D) All of the above.

Question 9

How much money does organized crime suck from the world economy every year?

A) One million dollars.
B) One billion dollars.
C) One trillion dollars.
D) An immeasurable amount.

Question 10

Where do the La Cosa Nostra and Italian Organized Crime Groups have their roots?

A) New York City.
B) Chicago.
C) Greece.
D) 19^th Century Sicily.

Question 11

How are the numbers for the numbers game derived?

A) From an unpredictable financial figure that is published daily in the newspaper.
B) From the State gambling authority.
C) From the head of the local organized crime organization.
D) Through a complex mathematical formula.

Question 12

How was the Russian Organized Crime syndicate originally formed?

A) Through the KGB.
B) By Russian prison bosses.
C) Through the Russian Military.
D) By the LCN infiltrating Moscow.

Question 13

What is one of the major sources of power for the La Cosa Nostra Crime Group?

A) Violence.
B) Domination of drug trafficking.
C) Domination of labor unions.
D) Vast monetary resources.

Question 14

Who accepts bets for the numbers game?

A) Any local convenience store clerk.
B) The owners of the bars that run the numbers game.
C) A bookie.
D) The local state authority.

Question 15

How many countries signed the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocols?

A) 50.
B) 100.
C) 125.
D) 150.

Question 16

Which of the following was an activity that the La Cosa Nostra Crime Group was involved in?

A) Drug Trafficking.
B) Money Laundering.
C) Murder.
D) All of the above.

Question 17

What is Labor Racketeering?

A) The criminal act of scaring away potential employees from a business.
B) The domination, manipulation, and control of a labor movement which affects related businesses and industries.
C) The domination, manipulation, and control of employment taxes prior to their submission to their governmental authority.
D) The criminal act of manipulating and controlling labor unions.

Question 18

How does the LCN hide its cash assets?

A) Money Market accounts.
B) Investment portfolios.
C) Offshore bank accounts.
D) Large assets in other people's names.

Question 19

What does the average annual percentage rate figure out to for loan-shark loans?

A) 8%.
B) 28%.
C) 100%.
D) 300%.

Question 20

Besides addressing issues such as organized crime and money laundering, what else did the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocols address?

A) Drug smuggling.
B) Human slavery and trafficking.
C) Terrorist training.
D) All of the above.

Question 21

Made men are at least 50% Italian, on their mother's side of the family, and meet certain other criteria.

Question 22

Organized crime is a global problem that sucks over a trillion dollars a year out of the legitimate world economy.

Question 23

Which of the following countries is not a member of the G8?

A) United States.
B) China.
C) Russia.
D) Japan.

Question 24

Japan and the United States are working together to stop criminal organizations through the FBI/National Police Agency of Japan Working Group.

Question 25

Under the Bank Secrecy Act, when must financial institutions report transactions?

A) When a cash deposit of more than $2,000 is made by someone with a middle-eastern name.
B) When an account is opened by anyone from a terrorist sponsoring nation.
C) Any transaction over $10,000.
D) All of the above.

Question 26

Which of the following is not a component that is key to operating terrorist cells?

A) Airline operation.
B) Financial support.
C) Weapons experts.
D) Spiritual leaders.

Question 27

Which organization is Financial Crimes Enforcement Network under?

A) FBI.
B) CIA.
C) Homeland Security.
D) Treasury Department.

Question 28

It's not uncommon for European groups of individuals with terrorist ties to publicly preach jihad and openly commit themselves to suicide attacks, while the authorities can only stand by and watch.

Question 29

The La Cosa Nostra (LCN) has its roots in mid 9^th century Sicily, and began about the time that Italy became a sovereign state.

Question 30

How many Muslims currently live in Europe?

A) 10 million.
B) 20 million.
C) 30 million.
D) 40 million.

Question 31

What are the three steps of money laundering?

A) placement, layering, and integration.
B) acquisition, disbursement and concealment.
C) placement, disbursement and integration.
D) acquisition, layering and concealment.

Question 32

Where do some terrorist organizations base their operations?

A) Local government buildings.
B) Banks.
C) Houses of worship such as Mosques.
D) All of the above.

Question 33

Who is Usama bin Laden?

A) The United States installed temporary president of Afghanistan.
B) The founder of al Qaeda.
C) The current president of Iraq.
D) The head of OPEC.

Question 34

Most Muslims in Europe subscribe to radical Islamic fundamentalism, and many of those who do support the idea of the Islamic state subscribe to violence.

Question 35

Which of the following countries had some of the largest terrorist training camps prior to 9/11?

A) Afghanistan.
B) Iraq.
C) Pakistan.
D) All of the above.

Question 36

Why is it difficult to prosecute terrorists that are in other countries?

A) Their operations are difficult to detect.
B) Some countries do not have laws pertaining to terrorist activities.
C) Other countries do not like American law enforcement.
D) All of the above.

Question 37

Some believe that ROC syndicates are being used the government in Moscow to secretly continue to carry out the Cold War policies of selling arms and nuclear technology to terrorists and enemies of the United States.

Question 38

The ROC, unlike the modern day LCN, continues to kill reporters, government officials and law enforcement personnel.

Question 39

The money flow in organizations such as the LCN is very similar to Corporations where the money flows from the top down.

Question 40

According to FBI reports, the LCN and its associates remains actively engaged in drug trafficking, murder, assault, gambling, extortion, loan-sharking, labor racketeering, money laundering, arson, gasoline bootlegging, infiltration of legitimate businesses, stock market manipulation, and various other illegal frauds and schemes.

Question 41

What are some hindrances with the European legal systems when trying to stop terrorism?

Question 42

What is the fundamental concept behind Islamic radicalism?

Question 43

What are the three phases of money laundering and how do they work?

Question 44

What is the main goal of labor racketeering?

Question 45

What are the four major components of terrorists cells (describe in detail).

Question 46

What was the Window WMF exploit?

Question 47

Describe what Suspicious Activity Reports must be filed for.

Question 48

How does the numbers game work and what is its status today?

Question 49

Why are prisons and mosques so popular for recruiting terrorists in France?

Question 50

Describe that the World Islamic Front Statement is: