The very term "corruption" is so inclusive as to be almost meaningless, encompassing bribery, nepotism, bid-rigging, embezzlement, extortion, vote-buying, price-fixing, protection rackets, and a hundred other varieties of fraud.
Divide students into small groups (or pairs, depending on the size of the class), and assign each one of the following terms to research and define: blackmail, bribery, counterfeiting, embezzlement, extortion, forgery, fraud, insider trading, money laundering, racketeering, securities fraud, and tax evasion.
Although in many states today, the specific theft crimes of larceny, embezzlement, extortion, and others are combined in a single statute, these and other common law and statutory crimes are important, because many states retain statutes that deal with each of these crimes separately.
Sheriff Mike Byrd of Jackson County, accused of using his office to retaliate against people he considered political and personal enemies, has been indicted on charges that include fraud, embezzlement, perjury, extortion and witness tampering.
They said they told federal investigators that the rabbi had been the victim of a bizarre embezzlement and extortion plot that was carried out by two former members of his inner circle, who stole his congregation's money and tried to frame him.
ANNALS OF CRIME about deliberate misuses of the computer for fraud, extortion, embezzlement and theft.
Auditors… ANNALS OF CRIME about deliberate misuses of the computer for fraud, extortion, embezzlement and theft.
"The crime would be extortion, embezzlement, among other crimes," the minister said.
The speeches of prosecution, "In Verrem" (or "Against Verres,") laid out a series of charges — extortion, embezzlement, bribery, and mistreatment of prisoners — with devastating aplomb.
The New Yorker, August 22, 1977 P. 35 ANNALS OF CRIME about deliberate misuses of the computer for fraud, extortion, embezzlement and theft.
The rules, which are intended to aid investors cheated through embezzlement, pyramid schemes, extortion or robbery, could potentially put hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars back into the pockets of Mr. Madoff's stunned investors.
