Organized Crime And Corruption

Throughout this course we have learned that there is a clear connection between organized crime and public officials, such as law enforcement, lawyers, judges and even the president. But corruption is not only prevalent with politicians and public officials. It also instills legitimate businessman as well. The reality is that organized criminals, legitimate businesspeople, and government officials are equal players in a marketplace of corruption (Lyman, 2015). The organized crime and businesspeople both have services that each other wants or need, so therefore they both go the marketplace with their services or goods that each other desire and an exchange takes place. OC and businessman participate in illicit ventures with similar goals in mind, profit or lack of detection. Some ways OC work with legitimate businessman is by creating fronts, laundering money, shady investments, racketeering, and extortion of goods. Regardless the involvement, legitimate …show more content…
They also work with legitimate businessman when it comes to racketeering, specifically labor racketeering. This can consist of exploration of employers, union members, or both and comes in various forms (Organized Crime, 2015). Unions are forced to pay into pensions, and these pensions have been known to be managed for the interest of organized crime rather than retirement. Our book outlined several instances when the Union (Teamsters Union) misappropriated the funds by allowing organized crime to exercise a great deal of control over its operation (Organized Crime, …show more content…
Information retrieved from: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/organizedcrime/overview
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