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Robber Barons
Robber baron is a derogatory term generally used to describe an elite group of capitalists who advanced the American economy through investments in natural resources and land development throughout the 19th century. It was widely rumored (and in many cases ...
- Advertising Fraud
- Antitrust, Federal Trade Commission
- Antitrust, U.S. Department of Justice
- Arbitrage
- Bank Fraud
- Bankruptcy Fraud
- Bid Rigging
- Boycott
- Campaign Finance
- Canadian Mining Scandals
- Charity Fraud
- Cigarette Advertising
- Computer Hacking
- Contractor Fraud
- Copyright Infringement
- Corporate Criminal Liability
- Corporate Dumping
- Corporate Raiding
- Direct-Mail Fraud
- Economic Espionage
- False Foreclosures
- Foreclosure Fraud and Rescue Schemes
- Greenmail
- Hedge Fund Fraud
- Hoarding
- Illegal Competition
- Industrial Espionage
- Insurance Fraud
- Interlocking Directorates
- Internet Fraud
- Kickbacks
- Labor Crimes
- Legacy Lending
- Liar Loans
- Mail Fraud
- Market Manipulation
- Marketing Fraud
- Mortgage Fraud
- Mortgage Modification Fraud
- Offshore Entities
- Outside Directors
- Patent Infringement
- Predatory Lending
- Predatory Practices
- Price Discrimination
- Price Fixing
- Real Estate Investments
- Redlining
- Revolving Door
- Robo-Signing
- Small Business Fraud
- Tariff Crimes
- Tax Evasion
- Trademark Infringement
- Tying Arrangements
- Unfair Trade Practices
- Unions
- Wire Fraud
- A. H. Robins Inc.
- Academi
- Adelphia Communications Corp.
- Allied Chemical Corp.
- Allied Irish Banks
- American Cyanamid Co.
- American Hospital Supply Corp.
- American International Group
- American Motors Corp.
- Amerifunding
- Anheuser-Busch InBev
- Archer Daniels Midland Co.
- Arthur Andersen LLP
- AT&T
- B. F. Goodrich Co.
- Banco Ambrosiano
- Bank of America Corp.
- Bank of Credit and Commerce International
- Bankers Trust Co.
- Barings Bank
- BASF Corp.
- Beech Aircraft Corp.
- Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp.
- Bendix Corp.
- Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC
- BP PLC
- Bre-X Minerals Ltd.
- Carl Karcher Enterprises Inc.
- Cendant Corp.
- Centennial Savings and Loan
- Chem-Bio Corp.
- Chevron Oil Co.
- Countrywide Financial Corp.
- Crédit Lyonnais
- Daiwa Bank Ltd.
- Dow Chemical Co.
- Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc.
- E. F. Hutton & Co.
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Enron Corp.
- Equity Funding Corporation of America
- Film Recovery Systems Inc.
- Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.
- Fisher-Price Inc.
- Ford Motor Co.
- G. D. Searle & Company
- General Dynamics Corp.
- General Electric Co.
- General Motors Co.
- Georgia Pacific LLC
- Global Crossing Ltd.
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
- Gulf Oil Corp.
- Halliburton Co.
- Health Corporation of America
- ICN Pharmaceuticals Inc.
- Imperial Food Products Inc.
- International Business Machines Corp.
- International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.
- Investors Overseas Services Ltd.
- Johns Manville Corp.
- Kerr-McGee Corp.
- Kidder, Peabody & Co.
- Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
- Lloyd's of London
- Lockheed Corp.
- Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan Association
- Merrill Lynch and Co. Inc.
- Metallgesellschaft
- Microsoft Corp.
- Moody's Corp.
- Morton Thiokol Inc.
- NASDAQ
- National Medical Enterprises Inc.
- NatWest Markets Ltd.
- Northrop Grumman Corp.
- Owens Corning Corp.
- Paulson & Co. Inc.
- Procter & Gamble Inc.
- Rite Aid Corp.
- Rockwell International
- Salomon Smith Barney Inc.
- Standard & Poor's
- Standard Oil Co.
- Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
- Teledyne Industries Inc.
- Tyco International
- UBS
- Unisys Corp.
- United American Bank
- United Fruit Co.
- United States Steel Corp.
- Waste Management Inc.
- Wells Fargo Mortgage
- WorldCom Inc.
- Adulteration, Economically Motivated
- Automobiles
- Bait and Switch
- Baycol Case
- Bendectin Case
- Better Business Bureaus
- Breast Implants
- Caveat Emptor
- Charity Fraud
- Cigarette Advertising
- Consumer Deaths
- Credit Card Fraud
- Dalkon Shield Case
- Direct-Mail Fraud
- Fertility Fraud
- Food Fraud
- Gambling and Lotteries
- Identity Fraud or Theft
- Infant Formula
- Oraflex Case
- Public Citizen Health Research Group
- Tampons and Toxic Shock
- Tobacco Industry
- Antiquities Fraud
- Antiquities Theft
- Board of Directors
- Bribery
- Capitalism
- Caveat Emptor
- Civil Forfeiture
- Class-Action Lawsuits
- Conflict Theory
- Conspiracy
- Corporate Criminal Liability
- Corruption
- Criminal Facilitation
- Critical Theory
- Differential Association Theory
- Ethics
- Extortion
- Fear of Crime
- Forensic Auditing
- Forgery
- Gender Discrimination
- Globalization
- Hartung-Burgess Debate
- Human Trafficking
- Investigation Techniques
- Justice, U.S. Department of
- Knapp Commission
- Legal Malpractice
- Misappropriation Theory
- Mollen Commission
- Money Laundering
- Multinational Corporations
- National White Collar Crime Center
- Negligence
- Oligopoly
- Organized Crime
- Perjury
- Police Brutality
- Police Corruption
- Pornography
- Predatory Lending
- Prostitution
- Public Corruption
- Racial Discrimination
- Racketeering
- Religious Fraud
- Respondeat Superior
- Risk Analysis
- Self-Control Theory
- Sentencing Guidelines
- State Crime Theory
- Sutherland-Tappan Debate
- Techniques of Neutralization
- Terrorism
- Accounting Fraud
- Arbitrage
- Bank Fraud
- Bank of Credit and Commerce International
- Bankruptcy Fraud
- Bond Fraud
- Collateralized Debt Obligations
- Commodities Fraud
- Counterfeiting
- Credit Card Fraud
- Currency Fraud
- Debt Restructuring Fraud
- Fiduciary Fraud
- Foreclosure Fraud and Rescue Schemes
- Insider Trading
- Investment Trust Fraud
- Liar Loans
- Loan Origination Schemes
- Mortgage Fraud
- Mortgage-Backed Securities
- Naked Short Selling
- Offshore Bank Accounts
- Offshore Entities
- Reverse-Mortgage Fraud
- Savings and Loan Fraud
- Securitization Fraud
- Short-Sale Schemes
- Stock and Securities Fraud
- Subprime Loans
- Teamsters Pension Fund
- Vatican Bank
- Bid Rigging
- Bribery
- Campaign Finance
- Defense Industry Fraud
- Environmental Protection Agency, U.S.
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
- Federal Trade Commission
- Food and Drug Administration, U.S.
- Government Contract Fraud
- Government Procurement Fraud
- Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Department of
- Operation Malicious Mortgage
- Political Assassinations
- Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S.
- Tailhook Scandal
- Teapot Dome Scandal
- United States
- Alien Tort Statute
- Bank Secrecy Act
- Boland Amendments
- Celler-Kefauver Act
- Clayton Antitrust Act
- Clean Air Act
- Clean Water Act
- Comprehensive Thrift Act
- Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
- Consumer Product Safety Commission Act
- Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
- Endangered Species Act
- Ethics Reform Act
- Fair Housing Act
- False Claims Act
- Federal Trade Commission Act
- Financial Crime Kingpin Statute
- Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
- Hart-Scott-Rodino Act
- Hobbs Act
- Insider Trading Sanctions Act
- Interstate Commerce Commission Act
- Major Fraud Act
- Meat Inspection Act
- Mine Safety and Health Act
- Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act
- National Environmental Policy Act
- Occupational Safety and Health Act
- Pay It Back Act
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
- Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act
- Robinson-Patman Act
- Sherman Antitrust Act
- Stark Act
- Submerged Lands Act
- Toxic Substances Control Act
- Troubled Asset Relief Program
- Truth in Labeling Act
- Truth in Lending Act
- Victim and Witness Protection Act
- Baycol Case
- Bendectin Case
- Breast Implants
- Dalkon Shield Case
- Fertility Fraud
- Health Care Fraud
- Medical Malpractice
- Medicare and Medicaid Fraud
- Pharmaceutical Industry
- Research Fraud
- Revco Medicaid Scandal
- Thalidomide Case
- Unnecessary Surgery
- Agnew, Spiro
- Anderson, Jack
- Benson, Michael
- Boesky, Ivan
- Braithwaite, John
- Bush, George H. W.
- Bush, George W.
- Butcher Brothers
- Carnegie, Andrew
- Carson, Rachel
- Carter, Jimmy
- Clinard, Marshall
- Clinton, William J.
- Cohen, Albert
- Coleman, James
- Coolidge, Calvin
- Cressey, Donald
- Crocker, Charles
- Cullen, Francis T.
- DeLay, Tom
- Domhoff, G. William
- Edelhertz, Herbert
- Edwards, John
- Eisenhower, Dwight D.
- Ford, Gerald R.
- Frankel, Martin
- Friedrichs, David
- Geis, Gilbert
- Giuliani, Rudy
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- Green, Mark
- Hayward, Tony
- Holley, Louis Malcolm
- Hoover, Herbert
- Hopkins, Mark
- Hunter, Rielle
- Huntington, Collis P.
- Iguchi, Toshihide
- Irving, Clifford
- Jesilow, Paul
- Jett, Joseph
- Johnson, Lyndon B.
- Keating, Charles
- Keating Five
- Kennedy, John F.
- Kerik, Bernard
- Kilpatrick, Kwame
- Leeson, Nick
- Levi, Michael
- Levine, Dennis
- Libby, Lewis (Scooter)
- Madison, James
- Madoff, Bernard L.
- Maxwell, Robert
- Milken, Michael
- Morgan, John P.
- Mozilo, Angelo
- Nader, Ralph
- Nixon, Richard M.
- Obama, Barack
- Paterson, David
- Picard, Irving
- Picower, Jeffrey
- Pontell, Henry
- Porteus, Judge G. Thomas
- Rangel, Charles
- Reagan, Ronald
- Rich, Marc
- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Ross, Edward
- Rove, Karl
- Short, James F., Jr.
- Shover, Neal
- Silkwood, Karen
- Simpson, Sally
- Sinclair, Upton
- Small, Gerald P., III
- Sorkin, Ira
- Spitzer, Eliot
- Stanford, Leland, Sr.
- Stavisky, Serge
- Steffens, Lincoln
- Stewart, Martha
- Stone, Christopher
- Sutherland, Edwin H.
- Truman, Harry S.
- Vaughan, Diane
- Weisburd, David
- Wheeler, Stanton
- Wilpon, Fred
- Young, Andrew
- ABSCAM
- Agnew, Spiro
- Anderson, Jack
- Edwards, John
- Hunter, Rielle
- Iran-Contra Affair
- Kilpatrick, Kwame
- Paterson, David
- Plame Affair
- Rangel, Charles
- Spitzer, Eliott
- Watergate
- Yellow-Cake Forgery
- Young, Andrew
- Buffalo Creek Disaster
- Canadian Mining Scandals
- Coal Mining
- Corporate Dumping
- Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
- Global Warming
- Grassy Narrows First Nations Reserve
- Greenpeace
- Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
- Hazardous Waste
- Kepone Scandal
- Love Canal Disaster
- Pesticides
- Pollution, Air
- Pollution, Water
- Polyvinyl Chlorides
- Three Mile Island Disaster
- Times Beach Contamination
- Antitrust, Federal Trade Commission
- Antitrust, U.S. Department of Justice
- Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, U.S.
- Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement, U.S.
- Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, U.S.
- Commodities Futures Trading Commission, U.S.
- Consent Agreements and Orders
- Consumer Product Safety Commission, U.S.
- Corporate Capture
- Creative Compliance
- Federal Gambling Regulation
- Financial Accounting Standards Board
- Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, U.S.
- Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
- Interstate Commerce Commission, U.S.
- Minerals Management Service, U.S.
- Office of Natural Resources Revenue, U.S.
- Organizational Compliance Programs
- Reform and Regulation
- Regulatory Enforcement
- Volcker Plan
- Advance Fee Scam
- Art Fraud
- Bad Checks
- Bait and Switch
- Bid Rigging
- Bond Fraud
- Charity Fraud
- Check Kiting
- Computer Hacking
- Contractor Fraud
- Counterfeiting
- Credit Card Fraud
- Currency Fraud
- Daisy Chains
- Direct-Mail Fraud
- Disaster Fraud
- Dream Homes Scam
- False Foreclosures
- Forgery
- Great Electrical Equipment Conspiracy
- Home-Stake Swindle
- House Stealing
- Identity Fraud or Theft
- Insurance Policy Churning
- Madoff Ponzi Scheme
- Mail Fraud
- Money Laundering
- Nonprofit Organization Fraud
- Nigerian 419 Scams
- Ponzi Schemes
- Stock Churning
- Stock Spamming
- Sweepstakes Fraud
- Telemarketing Fraud
- Wire Fraud
- Defense Industry Fraud
- Iraq War
- Robber Barons
- War Crimes
- War on Drugs
- War on Terror
- World War I
- World War II
- Age Discrimination
- Asbestos
- Brown Lung
- Canadian Mining Scandals
- Challenger Disaster
- Coal Mining
- Embezzlement
- Employee Crimes
- Employee Safety
- Gender Discrimination
- Industrial Revolution
- Kepone Scandal
- Labor Crimes
- Occupational Carcinogens
- Ocean Ranger Disaster
- Racial Discrimination
- Sexual Harassment
- Unions
- Unsafe Working Conditions
- Whistleblowers
- Workplace Deaths
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