What are some examples of white-collar crime in American history?

What will be an ideal response?


Some examples of white-collar crime in the history of the United States include:

• The 1929 Teapot Dome scandal
• The insider-trading scam of stock market tycoon Ivan Boesky
• The securities fraud conviction of junk-bond king Michael Milken
• The nationwide savings and loan disaster of the 1980s
• Sham banking operations in the mid-1990s
• Enron Corporation
• WorldCom, Inc.
• Adelphia Communications
• ImClone founder's insider trading activities
• Martha Stewart's involvement in insider trading
• The suspicion that securities firms were creating conflicts of interest
• Bernie Madoff's Ponzi Scheme

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