White-collar criminals have been busy, and the Second Edition of this encyclopedia captures what has been going on in the news and behind the scenes with new articles and updates to past articles.

Table of Contents

• Volume 1
• Reader's Guide
• About the Editor
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• Chronology
• A
• A. H. Robins Inc.
• ABSCAM
• Academi
• Accounting Fraud
• Adelphia Communications Corp.
• Adulteration, Economically Motivated
• Advance Fee Scam
• Advertising Fraud
• Age Discrimination
• Agnew, Spiro
• Alien Tort Statute
• Allied Chemical Corp.
• Allied Irish Banks
• American Cyanamid Co.
• American Hospital Supply Corp.
• American International Group
• American Motors Corp.
• Amerifunding
• Anderson, Jack
• Anheuser-Busch InBev
• Antiquities Fraud
• Antiquities Theft
• Antitrust, Federal Trade Commission
• Antitrust, U.S. Department of Justice
• Arbitrage
• Archer Daniels Midland Co.
• Art Fraud
• Arthur Andersen LLP
• Asbestos
• AT&T
• Automobiles
• B
• B. F. Goodrich Co.
• Bad Checks
• Bait and Switch
• Banco Ambrosiano
• Bank Fraud
• Bank of America Corp.
• Bank of Credit and Commerce International
• Bank Secrecy Act
• Bankers Trust Co.
• Bankruptcy Fraud
• Barings Bank
• BASF Corp.
• Baycol Case
• Beech Aircraft Corp.
• Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp.
• Bendectin Case
• Bendix Corp.
• Benson, Michael
• Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC
• Better Business Bureaus
• Bid Rigging
• Board of Directors
• Boesky, Ivan
• Boland Amendments
• Bond Fraud
• Boycott
• BP PLC
• Braithwaite, John
• Breast Implants
• Bre-X Minerals Ltd.
• Bribery
• Brown Lung
• Buffalo Creek Disaster
• 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.
• Bush, George H. W.
• Bush, George W.
• Butcher Brothers
• C
• Campaign Finance
• Canadian Mining Scandals
• Capitalism
• Carl Karcher Enterprises
• Carnegie, Andrew
• Carson, Rachel
• Carter, Jimmy
• Caveat Emptor
• Celler-Kefauver Act
• Cendant Corp.
• Centennial Savings and Loan
• Challenger Disaster
• Charity Fraud
• Check Kiting
• Chem-Bio Corp.
• Chevron Oil Co.
• Cigarette Advertising
• Civil Forfeiture
• Class-Action Lawsuits
• Clayton Antitrust Act
• Clean Air Act
• Clean Water Act
• Clinard, Marshall
• Clinton, William J.
• Coal Mining
• Cohen, Albert
• Coleman, James
• Collateralized Debt Obligations
• Commodities Fraud
• Commodities Futures Trading Commission, U.S.
• Comprehensive Thrift Act
• Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
• Computer Hacking
• Conflict Theory
• Consent Agreements and Orders
• Conspiracy
• Consumer Deaths
• Consumer Product Safety Commission, U.S.
• Consumer Product Safety Commission Act
• Contractor Fraud
• Coolidge, Calvin
• Copyright Infringement
• Corporate Capture
• Corporate Criminal Liability
• Corporate Dumping
• Corporate Raiding
• Corruption
• Counterfeiting
• Countrywide Financial Corp.
• Creative Compliance
• Credit Card Fraud
• Crédit Lyonnais
• Cressey, Donald
• Criminal Facilitation
• Critical Theory
• Crocker, Charles
• Cullen, Francis T.
• Currency Fraud
• D
• Daisy Chains
• Daiwa Bank Ltd.
• Dalkon Shield Case
• Debt Restructuring Fraud
• Defense Industry Fraud
• DeLay, Tom
• Differential Association Theory
• Direct-Mail Fraud
• Disaster Fraud
• Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
• Domhoff, G. William
• Dow Chemical Co.
• Dream Homes Scam
• Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc.
• E
• E. F. Hutton & Co.
• Economic Espionage
• Edelhertz, Herbert
• Edwards, John
• Eisenhower, Dwight D.
• Eli Lilly and Company
• Embezzlement
• Employee Crimes
• Employee Safety
• Endangered Species Act
• Enron Corp.
• Environmental Protection Agency, U.S.
• Equity Funding Corporation of America
• Ethics
• Ethics Reform Act
• Extortion
• Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
• F
• Fair Housing Act
• False Claims Act
• False Foreclosures
• Fear of Crime
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
• Federal Gambling Regulation
• Federal Trade Commission
• Federal Trade Commission Act
• Fertility Fraud
• Fiduciary Fraud
• Film Recovery Systems Inc.
• Financial Accounting Standards Board
• Financial Crime Kingpin Statute
• Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, U.S.
• Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
• Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.
• Fisher-Price Inc.
• Food and Drug Administration, U.S.
• Food Fraud
• Ford, Gerald R.
• Ford Motor Co.
• Foreclosure Fraud and Rescue Schemes
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
• Forensic Auditing
• Forgery
• Frankel, Martin
• Friedrichs, David
• G
• G. D. Searle & Company
• Gambling and Lotteries
• Geis, Gilbert
• Gender Discrimination
• General Dynamics Corp.
• General Electric Co.
• General Motors Co.
• Georgia-Pacific LLC
• Giuliani, Rudy
• Global Crossing Ltd.
• Global Warming
• Globalization
• Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
• Government Contract Fraud
• Government Procurement Fraud
• Grant, Ulysses S.
• Grassy Narrows First Nations Reserve
• Great Electrical Equipment Conspiracy
• Green, Mark
• Greenmail
• Greenpeace
• Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
• Gulf Oil Corp.
• H
• Halliburton Co.
• Hart-Scott-Rodino Act
• Hartung-Burgess Debate
• Hayward, Tony
• Hazardous Waste
• Health Care Fraud
• Health Corporation of America
• Hedge Fund Fraud
• Hoarding
• Hobbs Act
• Holley, Louis Malcolm
• Home-Stake Swindle
• Hoover, Herbert
• Hopkins, Mark
• House Stealing
• Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Department of
• Human Trafficking
• Hunter, Rielle
• Huntington, Collis P.
• I
• ICN Pharmaceuticals Inc.
• Identity Fraud or Theft
• Iguchi, Toshihide
• Illegal Competition
• Imperial Food Products Inc.
• Industrial Espionage
• Industrial Revolution
• Infant Formula
• Insider Trading
• Insider Trading Sanctions Act
• Insurance Fraud
• Insurance Policy Churning
• Interlocking Directorates
• International Business Machines Corp.
• International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.
• Internet Fraud
• Interstate Commerce Commission, U.S.
• Interstate Commerce Commission Act
• Investigation Techniques
• Investment Trust Fraud
• Investors Overseas Services Ltd.
• Iran-Contra Affair
• Iraq War
• Irving, Clifford
• J
• Jesilow, Paul
• Jett, Joseph
• Johns Manville Corp.
• Johnson, Lyndon B.
• Justice, U.S. Department of
• K
• Keating, Charles
• Keating Five
• Kennedy, John F.
• Kepone Scandal
• Kerik, Bernard
• Kerr-McGee Corp.
• Kickbacks
• Kidder, Peabody & Co.
• Kilpatrick, Kwame
• Knapp Commission
• L
• Labor Crimes
• Leeson, Nick
• Legacy Lending
• Legal Malpractice
• Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
• Levi, Michael
• Levine, Dennis
• Liar Loans
• Libby, Lewis (Scooter)
• Lloyd's of London
• Loan Origination Schemes
• Lockheed Corp.
• Love Canal Disaster
• Volume 2
• M
• Madison, James
• Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan Association
• Madoff, Bernard L.
• Madoff Ponzi Scheme
• Mail Fraud
• Major Fraud Act
• Market Manipulation
• Marketing Fraud
• Maxwell, Robert
• Meat Inspection Act
• Medical Malpractice
• Medicare and Medicaid Fraud
• Merrill Lynch and Co. Inc.
• Metallgesellschaft
• Microsoft Corp.
• Milken, Michael
• Mine Safety and Health Act
• Minerals Management Service, U.S.
• Misappropriation Theory
• Mollen Commission
• Money Laundering
• Moody's Corp.
• Morgan, John P.
• Mortgage Fraud
• Mortgage Modification Fraud
• Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act
• Mortgage-Backed Securities
• Morton Thiokol Inc.
• Mozilo, Angelo
• Multinational Corporations
• N
• Nader, Ralph
• Naked Short Selling
• NASDAQ
• National Environmental Policy Act
• National Medical Enterprises Inc.
• National White Collar Crime Center
• NatWest Markets Ltd.
• Negligence
• Nigerian 419 Scams
• Nixon, Richard M.
• Nonprofit Organization Fraud
• Northrop Grumman Corp.
• O
• Obama, Barack
• Occupational Carcinogens
• Occupational Safety and Health Act
• Ocean Ranger Disaster
• Office of Natural Resources Revenue, U.S.
• Offshore Bank Accounts
• Offshore Entities
• Oligopoly
• Operation Malicious Mortgage
• Oraflex Case
• Organizational Compliance Programs
• Organized Crime
• Outside Directors
• Owens Corning Corp.
• P
• Patent Infringement
• Paterson, David
• Paulson & Co. Inc.
• Pay It Back Act
• Perjury
• Pesticides
• Pharmaceutical Industry
• Picard, Irving
• Picower, Jeffrey
• Plame Affair
• Police Brutality
• Police Corruption
• Political Assassinations
• Pollution, Air
• Pollution, Water
• Polyvinyl Chlorides
• Pontell, Henry
• Ponzi Schemes
• Pornography
• Porteous, Judge G. Thomas
• Predatory Lending
• Predatory Practices
• Price Discrimination
• Price Fixing
• Procter & Gamble Inc.
• Prostitution
• Public Citizen Health Research Group
• Public Corruption
• Pure Food and Drug Act
• R
• Racial Discrimination
• Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
• Racketeering
• Rangel, Charles
• Reagan, Ronald
• Real Estate Investments
• Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act
• Redlining
• Reform and Regulation
• Regulatory Enforcement
• Religious Fraud
• Research Fraud
• Respondeat Superior
• Revco Medicaid Scandal
• Reverse-Mortgage Fraud
• Revolving Door
• Rich, Marc
• Risk Analysis
• Rite Aid Corp.
• Robber Barons
• Robinson-Patman Act
• Robo-Signing
• Rockwell International
• Roosevelt, Franklin D.
• Roosevelt, Theodore
• Ross, Edward
• Rove, Karl
• S
• Salomon Smith Barney Inc.
• Savings and Loan Fraud
• Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S.
• Securitization Fraud
• Self-Control Theory
• Sentencing Guidelines
• Sexual Harassment
• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Short, James F., Jr.
• Short-Sale Schemes
• Shover, Neal
• Silkwood, Karen
• Simpson, Sally
• Sinclair, Upton
• Small, Gerald P., III
• Small Business Fraud
• Sorkin, Ira
• Spitzer, Eliot
• Standard & Poor's
• Standard Oil Co.
• Stanford, Leland, Sr.
• Stark Act
• State Crime Theory
• Stavisky, Serge
• Steffens, Lincoln
• Stewart, Martha
• Stock and Securities Fraud
• Stock Churning
• Stock Spamming
• Stone, Christopher
• Submerged Lands Act
• Subprime Loans
• Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
• Sutherland, Edwin H.
• Sutherland-Tappan Debate
• Sweepstakes Fraud
• T
• Tailhook Scandal
• Tampons and Toxic Shock
• Tariff Crimes
• Tax Evasion
• Teamsters Pension Fund
• Teapot Dome Scandal
• Techniques of Neutralization
• Teledyne Industries Inc.
• Telemarketing Fraud
• Terrorism
• Thalidomide Case
• Three Mile Island Disaster
• Times Beach Contamination
• Tobacco Industry
• Toxic Substances Control Act
• Trademark Infringement
• Troubled Asset Relief Program
• Truman, Harry S.
• Truth in Labeling Act
• Truth in Lending Act
• Tyco International
• Tying Arrangements
• U
• UBS
• Unfair Trade Practices
• Unions
• Unisys Corp.
• United American Bank
• United Fruit Co.
• United States
• United States Steel Corp.
• Unnecessary Surgery
• Unsafe Working Conditions
• V
• Vatican Bank
• Vaughan, Diane
• Victim and Witness Protection Act
• Volcker Plan
• W
• War Crimes
• War on Drugs
• War on Terror
• Waste Management Inc.
• Watergate
• Weisburd, David
• Wells Fargo Mortgage
• Wheeler, Stanton
• Whistleblowers
• Whitewater Scandal
• Wilpon, Fred
• Wire Fraud
• Workplace Deaths
• World War I
• World War II
• WorldCom Inc.
• Y
• Yellow-Cake Forgery
• Young, Andrew
• Glossary
• Resource Guide
• Appendix: Law Summaries