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CCJ 4644 Quizzes 7-11 white collar crime final exam study guide. Submission View Released: 10:53 Lesson 4 Exam Question 1 2.5 / 2.5 points Andrew Fastow made more than $30 million while at Enro... n based on a _________ investment. Question options: a) $1 million b) zero out-of-pocket c) few thousand dollar d) $100,000 Question 2 2.5 / 2.5 points All of the following statements describe Paul Thayer EXCEPT: Question options: a) CEO of LTV Corporation. b) Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration. c) used his position on corporate boards to get insider information. d) made huge profits from his illegal trades. Question 3 2.5 / 2.5 points Ivan Boesky was involved in what aspect of the stock trade? Question options: a) Mergers and acquisitions b) Arbitrage c) International finance d) Investment banking Question 4 0 / 2.5 points Federal authorities have agreed that which of the following was a major contributing factor to the savings and loan implosion? Question options: a) Careless investment practices b) The downturn in the economy c) Fraud and insider abuse d) Regulation practices Question 5 2.5 / 2.5 points Enron may have been involved in __________ limited partnerships and shell companies. Question options: a) 500 b) 1000 c) 3000 d) 5000 Question 6 2.5 / 2.5 points Enron limited partnerships were named after all of the following EXCEPT: Question options: a) Jurassic Park characters. b) birds. c) Star Wars characters. d) constellations. Question 7 2.5 / 2.5 points Lay's connections and contributions to political candidates resulted in the spouse of what elected official being named to the Enron board? Question options: a) Kay Bailey Hutcheson b) Phil Gramm c) Tom DeLay d) Barack Obama Question 8 2.5 / 2.5 points How did R. Foster Winans get caught up in insider trading? Question options: a) Bought stock based on tips from Dennis Levine b) Used his computer knowledge to steal inside information c) Leaked information about his Wall Street Journal column d) Placed incorrect information in the Wall Street Journal Question 9 2.5 / 2.5 points Enron's limited partnerships were all of the following EXCEPT: Question options: a) a way to raise money. b) a tool permitting insiders to reap huge profits. c) used to conceal colossal debt. d) a mechanism to limit employee losses. Question 10 2.5 / 2.5 points Like other criminogenic cultures, the savings and loan industry placed a heavy emphasis on: Question options: a) presence of organized crime interests. b) intricate government regulations. c) reduced competition. d) profit. Question 11 2.5 / 2.5 points In return for Ivan Boesky's cooperation, the United States government let Ivan Boesky do all of the following EXCEPT: Question options: a) use inside information of his deal with the government to sell before others. b) serve a probated sentence. c) pay a mere $100 million fine. d) sell $1 billion in deal stocks before announcement of his cooperation. Question 12 2.5 / 2.5 points Darlene Gillespie, who went from Mouseketeer to racketeer, is an example that those who commit security fraud: Question options: a) can come from any background. b) face the hazards of using a broker to make stock purchases. c) need some background in securities. d) need a financial base to get started. Question 13 2.5 / 2.5 points Estimates of the cost of the savings and loan disaster range from a mere ______________ to ______________. Question options: a) $500 million; $20 billion b) $500 billion; $750 billion c) $200 billion; $1.4 trillion d) $20 billion; $500 billion Question 14 2.5 / 2.5 points Though thrift failures occurred nationwide, what two states accounted for the preponderance of the worst thrift frauds? Question options: a) Oklahoma and Texas b) Florida and California c) New York and California d) California and Texas Question 15 0 / 2.5 points Which of the following is NOT true about the crimes identified in the whirlwind tour of financial crimes? Question options: a) Most involved million-dollar losses. b) In all the cases individuals received prison sentences. c) Most of those convicted were mid-level managers. d) None involved insurance companies. Question 16 2.5 / 2.5 points Dennis Levine was involved in what aspect of the stock trade? Question options: a) Mergers and acquisitions b) Arbitrage c) Investment banking d) International finance Question 17 2.5 / 2.5 points The investigation that snared Dennis Levine took notice of all of the following EXCEPT: Question options: a) a proposed merger, trade, or acquisition would occur. b) a Swiss bank in the Bahamas. c) heavier-than-usual sales would take place involving companies that would later be involved in a merger, trade, or acquisition. d) the trades all involved Levin's firm. Question 18 2.5 / 2.5 points Insider thrift fraud took all of the following forms EXCEPT: Question options: a) desperation dealing. b) borrowing up. c) covering up. d) collective embezzlement. Question 19 2.5 / 2.5 points Enron, the seventh-largest corporation in the United States, lost __________ % of its value in a matter of months. Question options: a) 50 b) 60 c) 85 d) 99 Question 20 0 / 2.5 points Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm who audited Enron and was also paid for consulting work, met shortly before Jeff Skilling became CEO and agreed that all of the following were matters of concern about Enron EXCEPT: Question options: a) the annual report was a house of cards. b) the cash flow was the only accurate part of the annual report. c) the company had been engaging in risky and deceptive accounting practices. d) limited partnerships were being used to disguise debt. Lesson 5 Exam Question 21 2.5 / 2.5 points Melvyn Paisley was an Assistant Secretary of the Navy for six years and was in charge of: Question options: a) investigators. b) vendor services. c) product research. d) procurement. Question 22 2.5 / 2.5 points Representative Daniel Flood of Pennsylvania flooded his home district with federal funds and numerous public institutions carried his name. He took money from businessmen to do all of the following EXCEPT to: Question options: a) contribute campaign funds to a personal charity. b) persuade the Treasury Department to approve a merger. c) enable a religious school to get millions in federal grants. d) direct government family planning funds. Question 23 2.5 / 2.5 points The most secretive federal agency is the: Question options: a) DEA. b) FBI. c) CIA. d) NSA. Question 24 2.5 / 2.5 points Which of the following is an example of public corruption? Question options: a) Sexual relations with an intern in the Oval Office b) Unskilled relative hired as a policy analyst c) Use of a prostitute d) Drug use Question 25 2.5 / 2.5 points Which of the following would be representative of "little corruption"? Question options: a) Trivial, less costly deviance b) Bribery or corruption by individuals c) Corruption with no national implications d) Organizational deviance Question 26 2.5 / 2.5 points Prosecutions of corrupt federal legislators have been divided into three categories. They include all of the following EXCEPT: Question options: a) violations of election laws. b) payroll fraud. c) bribery. d) theft. Question 27 2.5 / 2.5 points Which of the following is NOT true about the Tuskegee Study? Question options: a) Even after penicillin there was no treatment. b) There was no treatment for affected wives and children. c) There was no therapeutic intervention. d) Full disclosure occurred only at the end of the study. Question 28 2.5 / 2.5 points Which of the following activities would NOT constitute payroll fraud? Question options: a) Hillary Rodham Clinton hired to advise a congressional committee b) Elected official household staff put on congressional payroll c) Staff required to pay portion of salary to elected official d) Surplus pay raise for congressional staff used to pay for personal expenses Question 29 0 / 2.5 points Subjects for government medical studies included all of the following EXCEPT: Question options: a) addicts. b) juvenile delinquents. c) prostitutes. d) petty criminals. Question 30 2.5 / 2.5 points Radiation exposure experiments included all of the following groups EXCEPT: Question options: a) developmentally delayed children at state schools. b) workers at nuclear plants. c) corpses of dead children in Chicago. d) employees of the Defense Department. Question 31 2.5 / 2.5 points Though most of the medical experimentation by the military took place decades ago, soldiers in what recent conflict were given an unapproved pretreatment for nerve gas attacks without their knowledge? Question options: a) Bosnian conflict b) Vietnam War c) Persian Gulf War d) United States invasion of Iraq Question 32 2.5 / 2.5 points "Little corruption" in the highest level of federal executive office has been: Question options: a) rare. b) occurring at regular intervals. c) persistent. d) nonexistent. Question 33 2.5 / 2.5 points In the U.S., it is estimated that ___________ Americans were already sterilized by the time the Nazis carried out similar procedures. Question options: a) 5000 b) 20,000 c) 40,000 d) 63,000 Question 34 2.5 / 2.5 points From 1938 to 1978 the United States government experimented with various techniques of mind control. Those techniques included all of the following EXCEPT: Question options: a) brainwashing. b) hypnosis to create amnesia or elicit false confessions. c) sensory deprivation. d) all of the foregoing techniques were used. Question 35 2.5 / 2.5 points The United States military used unethical medical practices including the following EXCEPT: Question options: a) injecting fluoride into towns' water supply. b) feeding hepatitis to developmentally delayed infants. c) using germ warfare experiments on communities. d) exposing soldiers to mosquitoes carrying yellow fever. Question 36 2.5 / 2.5 points Justice Louis Brandeis of the United States Supreme Court said that governmental lawlessness was: Question options: a) contagious. b) dangerous. c) unprecedented. d) devastating. Question 37 2.5 / 2.5 points Soft money is: Question options: a) untraceable. b) unrestricted. c) undocumented. d) restricted. Question 38 2.5 / 2.5 points Giving money to an elected official is bribery when: Question options: a) it is done in hopes that the elected official will make an inquiry to an IRS audit. b) the contributor plans to present information on a bill to the legislator. c) it is done in return for vote on a piece of legislation. d) it is given in hopes of getting an audience with an elected official. Question 39 2.5 / 2.5 points In conducting mind control experiments, all of the following drugs or methods were employed EXCEPT: Question options: a) date rape drugs such as GHB. b) use of soldiers addicted to pain killers. c) shock treatment. d) LSD. Question 40 2.5 / 2.5 points At the core of the Nazi atrocities was eugenics, which includes: Question options: a) bionics. b) selective breeding and forced sterilization. c) euthanasia. d) assisted suicide. ________________________________________ Attempt Score: 90 / 100 - 90 % Overall Grade (highest attempt): 90 / 100 - 90 % [Show More]

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