Deck 14: Organized Crime: Statutes

Question 1

The earliest statutes designed to deal with "racketeering" are collectively known as the:

A) Harrison Act
B) Anti-Drug Abuse Act
C) Hobbs Act
D) Comprehensive Crime Control Act

Answer 1

C

Question 2

n 1970, in response to increasing reports of people bringing bags full of illegally obtained cash into banks for deposit, Congress enacted the statute commonly referred to as the:

A) Money Laundering Act
B) Harrison Act
C) Bank Secrecy Act
D) Hobbs Act

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following is not one of the three basic types of conspiracy?

A) chain
B) wheel
C) syndicate
D) enterprise

Answer 3

C

Question 4

What type of activity did the Sherman Anti-Trust Act prohibit?

A) drug trafficking
B) human trafficking
C) restraint of trade
D) tax evasion

Question 5

The ____________ makes it a federal crime to engage in criminal behavior that interferes with interstate commerce.

A) Harrison Act
B) Anti-Drug Abuse Act
C) Hobbs Act
D) Comprehensive Crime Control Act

Question 6

In 1914, which Act made it illegal to sell or give away opium or opium derivatives and coca or its derivatives without written order on a form issued by the Commissioner of Revenue?

A) the Anti-Drug Abuse Act
B) the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act
C) the Hobbs Act
D) the Harrison Act

Question 7

The investigation and prosecution of organized crime per se has largely been a responsibility of the __________.

A) Federal government
B) Municipal government
C) Both a and b
D) None of these

Question 8

he 1968 Consumer Credit Act (18 U.S.C. ections 891-94) was designed to combat:

A) loansharking
B) racketeering
C) gambling
D) drug abuse

Question 9

ICO defines ____________ as any act or threat involving murder, kidnapping, gambling, arson, robbery, bribery, extortion, or dealing in narcotic or other dangerous drugs, which is chargeable under State law and punishable by imprisonment for more than one year.

A) racketeering
B) conspiracy
C) corruption
D) forfeiture

Question 10

_____________ is an agreement between two or more persons to commit a criminal act; it is the agreement that becomes the corpus (body) of the crime.

A) Corruption
B) Entrapment
C) Money laundering
D) Conspiracy

Question 11

_____________ is defined as any extension of credit with respect to which is the understanding of the creditor and the debtor at the time the loan is made that delay in making repayment or failure to make repayment could result in the use of violence or other criminal means to cause the harm to the person, reputation, or property of any person.

A) Credit debt
B) Loan shark debt
C) Gambling debt
D) Lender's fee

Question 12

he ________ theory allows the government to seize property that represents the gains from certain specified unlawful activities.

A) proceeds
B) facilitation
C) net worth
D) control

Question 13

____________ forfeiture is an in rem proceeding.

A) Criminal
B) Personal
C) Social
D) Civil

Question 14

n 1972, ______________ enacted civil RICO legislation with the seizure and forfeiture provision.

A) New York
B) Washington
C) Hawaii
D) Texas

Question 15

The ____________ imposes mandatory prison sentences for certain drug offenses and a mandatory doubling of the minimum penalties for offenders with prior felony drug convictions.

A) Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986
B) Harrison Act
C) Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984
D) Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 1970

Question 16

o obtain a seizure order (actually a warrant), the government must provide ______________ the property to be seized and why there is reason to believe that it is being used to commit crimes or was acquired with money from criminal activity.

A) sworn testimony in an affidavit spelling out
B) an informant explaining
C) surveillance viewing
D) eyewitness testimony regarding

Question 17

he ____________ statute makes it a crime to commit or conspire to commit a continuing series of felony violations of the 1970 Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act when the violations are undertaken in concert with 5 or more persons.

A) RICO
B) Consumer Credit Protection
C) Hobbs
D) Continuing Criminal Enterprise

Question 18

_________ forfeiture is an in personam proceeding.

A) Criminal
B) Personal
C) Social
D) Civil

Question 19

In what year was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act enacted?

A) 1890
B) 1980
C) 1990
D) 2000

Question 20

he _________ theory allows the government to seize property when it aids certain criminal conduct.

A) proceeds
B) facilitation
C) net worth
D) control

Question 21

What legislation prohibits "knowingly opening, maintaining, managing, controlling, renting, leasing, making available for use, or profiting from, any place for the purpose of manufacturing, distributing, or using any controlled substance?"

A) Ecstasy [MDMA] Anti-Proliferation Act of 2000
B) Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act ("Rave Act") of 2003
C) Chemical Diversion and Trafficking Act of 1988
D) Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986

Question 22

hich of the following denied the claim of self-incrimination (Fifth Amendment) as an excuse for failure to file income tax on illegally gained earnings:

A) United States v. Sullivan
B) United States v. Bufalino et al.
C) United States v. Sperling
D) Whitfield v. United States

Question 23

The Harrison Act is the most important single piece of legislation ever enacted against organized crime.

Question 24

The United States cannot compel other countries to maintain certain financial records similar to those required under the Bank Secrecy Act.

Question 25

hich of the following constitutes a pattern of racketeering under RICO?

A) two predicate crimes in a five-year period.
B) two predicate crimes in a ten-year period
C) two predicate crimes in a one-year period.
D) three predicate crimes in a ten-year period.

Question 26

he Bank Secrecy Act authorizes the ____________ to issue regulations requiring banks and other financial institutions to take a number of precautions against financial crime.

A) IRS
B) IRA
C) FBI
D) Department of Treasury

Question 27

Loansharking is an offense under the Consumer Credit Protection Act of 1968.

Question 28

RICO fails to define organized crime.

Question 29

rafficking in persons is prohibited by the __________ Amendment that outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude-holding persons for service/labor through force or the threat of force.

A) First
B) Sixth
C) Eighth
D) Thirteenth

Question 30

The owner of seized property has a right to contest the seizure before it has occurred.

Question 31

hat did the Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959 provide?

A) It prohibited money laundering.
B) It established a Bill of Rights for union members.
C) It established racketeering as a federal offense.
D) It prohibited trafficking in persons.

Question 32

Prior to the passage of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986, money laundering was not a federal crime.

Question 33

n what year did the first wiretap case (Olmstead v. nited States) confront the U.S Supreme Court?

A) 1928
B) 1948
C) 1968
D) 1988

Question 34

The 1957 "Apalachin Crime Conference" was a meeting of Mafia bosses.

Question 35

The Anti-Drug Abuse Amendments of 1988 created a complex and extensive body of civil penalties aimed at casual users.

Question 36

he Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959 was a response to violent acts of the American Mafia.

Question 37

he PROTECT Act of 2003 authorizes the prosecution of Americans whose behavior involves sexual exploitation of children __________________.

A) in the United States only.
B) in Europe only.
C) in Asia only.
D) anywhere in the world.

Question 38

Members of an enterprise conspiracy must be aware of each other's criminal activities, in order to be in violation of the law.

Question 39

hich of the following is (are) a type of identity theft offense?

A) fictitious identity
B) payment card
C) account takeover
D) all of these are types of identity theft offenses.

Question 40

he first time in history that Congress sanctioned electronic surveillance was Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act. In what year was it enacted??

A) 1958
B) 1968
C) 1988
D) 1998

Question 41

What are the two basic sets of authorizing provisions of the Bank Secrecy Act?

Question 42

n recent years, Federal narcotics agents have been assigned to work in local communities. What interpretation of the Constitution allowed this shift in federal activity?

Question 43

How does the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) define human trafficking?

Question 44

The Annunzio-Wylie _______________ Act of 1992 made operation of an illegal money transmitting business a crime.

Question 45

In 1914, the ______________ made it illegal to sell or give away opium or opium derivatives and coca or its derivatives without written order on a form issued by the Commissioner of Revenue.

Question 46

he ________________ Act of 2002 removed the intent requirement for individuals and criminalized the actions of sex tour operators.

Question 47

The _______________ to the U.S. onstitution provides that no person "shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself."

Question 48

Under _______________, slavery and peonage, sex trafficking in children and adults, and the confiscation of victim's documents are felonies.

Question 49

Tell about the Apalachin Crime Conference and how it led to the McClellan hearings and then the Landrum-Griffin act.

Question 50

The Identity Theft Act provides for enhanced punishment if the theft is committed to facilitate drug trafficking. What are those enhancements?

Question 51

How is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act 0f 1890 used against restraint-of-trade agreements?

Question 52

The _______________ Act of 1959 established a Bill of Rights for union members.

Question 53

What are the criticisms of RICO?

Question 54

The ______________ Act was the earliest statute designed to deal with racketeering.

Question 55

What is a conspiracy? Define conspiracy, state the three main types discussed in the text, and briefly describe each.

Question 56

_______________ authorizes the prosecution of Americans whose behavior involves the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) anywhere in the world.

Question 57

What is RICO?

Question 58

______________ is an agreement among competitors to raise, fix, or otherwise maintain the price at which their goods or services are sold.

Question 59

The wholesale assumption of another person's identity in an effort to gain access to new credit is called ______________.

Question 60

In what ways can the Internal Revenue Code be used against organized crime?