The FBI states, in regards to white-collar crime as, “These crimes are characterized by deceit, concealment, or violation of trust and are not dependent on the application or threat of physical force or violence. The motivation behind these crimes is financial—to obtain or avoid losing money, property, or services or to secure a personal or business advantage.” This definition is more like today’s definition of white-collar crime. However, in our book, Sutherland coined the phrase for white-collar crime as, “criminal activities of the rich and powerful.” He goes on to state that white-collar crime is, “committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation” (Siegel, 443). However, many white-collar
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While the rich do have more access to devious criminal activity in the more affluent market, those who are middle class, small time managers do, too as well. I personally know that my ex, he worked at a mortgage company in Memphis and he would tell Hispanics, he would approve a loan if they brought him a dead social security number and he would charge them 500.00 each. He then would get a loan for them and pocket the money. What he did was highly illegal and I found out after he got fired, what he was actually doing. Interestingly, his twin brother, was charging the immigrants, many illegal, 500 to get them to someone who would “approve a loan” and that would be his brother. It was a scam. I know in the last 10 years, he has continued to scam the government and every time I have tried to alert the IRS or authorities, they ignore it. They have been able to scam the IRS out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. I remembered his social security number, and most were on public record of properties and at the time, his wife knew his tax info. Before he almost beat her to death, she was able to escape and get out of that situation. However, we both tried to alert with PROOF of everything, and they ignored it, every single time. What bothers me is that this is costing the tax payers money to pay for their
While the rich do have more access to devious criminal activity in the more affluent market, those who are middle class, small time managers do, too as well. I personally know that my ex, he worked at a mortgage company in Memphis and he would tell Hispanics, he would approve a loan if they brought him a dead social security number and he would charge them 500.00 each. He then would get a loan for them and pocket the money. What he did was highly illegal and I found out after he got fired, what he was actually doing. Interestingly, his twin brother, was charging the immigrants, many illegal, 500 to get them to someone who would “approve a loan” and that would be his brother. It was a scam. I know in the last 10 years, he has continued to scam the government and every time I have tried to alert the IRS or authorities, they ignore it. They have been able to scam the IRS out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. I remembered his social security number, and most were on public record of properties and at the time, his wife knew his tax info. Before he almost beat her to death, she was able to escape and get out of that situation. However, we both tried to alert with PROOF of everything, and they ignored it, every single time. What bothers me is that this is costing the tax payers money to pay for their