CORPORATE CRIME REPORTER
Corporate
Crime Quiz
19 Corporate Crime Reporter 48(1), December 2, 2005
Okay kids, ready for your end of the year corporate crime quiz?
Consider it real life jeopardy.
Passing grade 18 out of 25.
Ready? (Answers below – no cheating!)
1. Starts with an A, ends with two fs. The king of lobbyists. Hand caught in
cookie jar doesn’t do it justice.
2. Means postpone. Accused of shuffling corporate money in and out of Texas.
3. Lord of Crossharbour. Accused king of corporate kleptocracy.
4. Two former Justice Department officials who wrote memos on how to prosecute
corporations.
5. Senator from HCA.
6. Teaches a class at Columbia Law School titled “The Black Letter Law
of White Collar Crime.”
7. Former Supreme Court Chief Justice and lead Nuremberg prosecutor who said
– war of aggression is the supreme international crime.
8. Corporation forced into deferred prosecution, required to fund a chair of
business ethics at Seton Hall Law School – the school where the prosecuting
attorney graduated from.
9. Special prosecutor investigating bribery and fraud in Iraq.
10. Company that was required to create 1,600 jobs in Oklahoma as a condition
of deferred prosecution
agreement.
11. After pleading guilty to taking bribes said this: “In my life, I have
known great joy and great sorrow. And now I know great shame.”
12. Pled guilty this year. Worked for Tom DeLay. Expressed his philosophy on
how to deal with opposition this way: "This whole thing about not kicking
someone when they're down – you kick him until he passes out, then beat
him over the head with a baseball bat, then roll him up in an old rug and throw
him off a cliff and pound the surf below.”
13. U.S. Attorney who prosecuted the HealthSouth cases, and accused chief judge
of her district of being “intellectually dishonest” for sentencing
one of the lead executives to seven days in jail.
14. Alabama company convicted of massive pollution crimes.
15. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals throws out his 24 year prison sentence of
this Dynegy trader.
16. Scooter Libby’s lawyer. He said this about prosecuting corporations:
“Ten years ago, it was – save the individuals and plead the corporation.
Now, things have radically changed and it’s totally reversed.”
17. Most famous quote: “If your sources are wrong, you are going to be
wrong.”
18. Number of 30 major corporations that make up Dow Jones Industrial Index
that have been convicted of crimes.
19. When asked whether she tried to redecorate her prison cell, she told NPR’s
Terry Gross.: “There are no materials to work with in a place like Alderson.”
20. High profile corporate crime prosecutor whose nickname in college was “Ironbutt”
for his ability to sit motionless in a study carrel for hours.
21. Under this federal law, you can sue on behalf of the federal government
against a corporation that has ripped off the government. If the government
recovers the money – you get a percentage – up to 30 percent of
the recovery.
22. Then U.S. Attorney in Manhattan David Kelley wanted to prosecute this firm
for a massive criminal tax fraud, but was reportedly overruled by James Comey
at Main Justice. Firm got a sweetheart deferred prosecution agreement.
23. Company and seven of its current or former executives indicted earlier this
year on federal charges that they knowingly put their workers and the public
in danger through exposure to vermiculite ore contaminated with asbestos from
the company's mine in Libby, Montana.
24. Unit of this Swiss based pharma giant pled guilty in February to obstructing
a federal audit.
25. He said this on November 29, 2005: “Any member of Congress, Republican
or Democrat, must take their office seriously and the ethics seriously. The
idea of a congressman taking money is outrageous. And Congressman Cunningham
is going to realize that he has broken the law and is going to pay a serious
price, which he should.”
Answers:
1. Jack Abramoff
2. Tom DeLay
3. Conrad Black
4. Eric Holder, Larry Thompson
5. Bill Frist
6. John Coffee
7. Robert Jackson
8. Bristol Myers Squibb
9. Stuart Bowen
10. MCI/WorldCom
11. Congressman Randall “Duke” Cunningham
12. Michael Scanlon
13. Alice Martin
14. McWane
15. Jamie Olis
16. Ted Wells
17. Judith Miller
18. Nine – 3M, Alcoa, Boeing, Exxon, General Electric, General Motors,
Merck, Pfizer, and United Technologies
19. Martha Stewart
20. Eliot Spitzer
21. False Claims Act
22. KPMG
23. W.R. Grace
24. Novartis
25. President George Bush
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