White Collar, Political, And Organized Crime
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White Collar, Political, and Organized Crime
Flor C Franco
Grand Canyon University: PSY 620
September 30 th 2020
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Introduction
For the past decades, the rate of crimes has been rising in the United States. The type of
crime committed is different, and each has its unique repercussion. This paper will describe the
Luciano was the organized crime gang leader, this crime punishment was not justified because this
kind of crime deserves a life imprisonment sentence.
Political Crime
Political crime is planned to harm or distort the state, the country's political system, and
government operations (Schram & Tibbetts, 2019). Examples of politically related crimes include
whistleblowing, human rights violation, perjury, theft, espionage, sedition, treason, and bribery.
Thomas Porteous conducted an example of a political crime. Thomas Porteous's allegations started
to be investigated by the House Judiciary Committee on September 18, 2008. As indicated by
Gerhardt (2018), Porteous was charged with crimes such as using a false name to evade creditors,
receiving favors from lawyers who had dealings in court, purposefully mislead the Senate during
the confirmation proceeding, and receiving cash from lawyers. After Porteous was found guilty on
four articles of impeachment, the Senate voted to remove him. The punishment for this crime was
not justified because Porteous was just impeached and never served any jail sentence. Thomas
Porteous was supposed to be impeached on top of time in prison.
White-Collar Crime
A white-collar crime occurs when someone in an organization or government steals money
from others (Schram & Tibbetts, 2019). White-collar crimes are financially motivated. They can
fall into 10 different categories, including labor racketeering, bribery, insider trading, forgery,
copyright infringement, identity theft, money laundering, fraud Ponzi schemes, or wage theft. I
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three most known crime types, including organized crime, political crime, and white-collar crime.
Different factors are associated with each offense. Furthermore, the paper will explain an offense
that fits into the offense, the crime’s outcome, and the punishment justification of each crime.
Organized Crime
According to Schram & Tibbetts (2019), organized crime is dissected through a typology.
It means it is committed with a specific motive whereby offenders obtain clear reasons and goals
for engaging in such a crime. For example, organized crime could be instigated by political or
economic objectives. A group of international, national, and local individuals can team up to
commit an organized crime. The motive is to engage in illegal activity for profit. Organized crimes
are categorized into six forms: cybercrime, human trafficking, fraud and extortion, counterfeiting
and contraband, resource misappropriation, and money laundering (Biography, 2020). In Mexico,
criminals engage in organized crimes such as street gangs, mafia, motorcycle gangs, and drug
cartels. To illustrate an example of organized crime, I will refer to the National Crime Syndicate.
The organizer of the National Crime Syndicate was Lucky Luciano. It was a crime that involved
many multi-ethnic criminal organization groups in the U.S. This group leader was charged with
many offenses, including bribery, illegal gambling, and extortion, to mention a few. The gang was
operating in New York, Illinois, California, Nevada, and Florida. In 1936, Luciano got convicted
of prostitution (Biography, 2020). He started serving his imprisonment in Dannemora after getting
his sentence on June 18, 1936. A former prostitute, Florence Brown, was his victim. His sentence
was 30 to 50 years in prison for compulsory prostitution and over 60 counts of conviction. Since
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choose Billy McFarland as somebody who conducted white-collar crime in the U.S. During Fyre
Festival, McFarland committed crimes related to mail and wire frauds. The CEO of Fyre Media
hosted Fyre grand music festival in 2017, where he invited JaRule the rapper, and Bill McFarland
to perform. The festival was held in Exuma, Bahamas, where tickets were charged between $500
to $12000. People who attended the festival realized they were scammed since the whole festival
was a fraud. According to Conrad (2018), McFarland was sent to jail to serve a 6 years’ time
imprisonment and $26 in compensation. Later, JaRule and McFarland were sued in May 2017.
Every individual who attended the Fyre Festival was represented by a particular class-action
lawsuit that sued both criminals for $100 million. Since McFarland pleaded guilty to selling fake
tickets to attendees and other charges, the punishment for this crime was fair, and he will have that
on record. McFarland and JaRule lost a lot of money despite stealing vast chunks of money from
people illegally.
Summary
Since each type of crime falls under a particular category, therefore each should be
punished differently. People should remove the notion that some white-collar crimes are handled
with leniency. The discussed types of crimes in this paper are not new; they have been going over
a long period. As an organized crime, Luciano was sentenced to at least 30 years, and the
punishment was not fair enough; he would have served life imprisonment since he was a leader of
organized crime. Thomas Porteous was impeached but not sentenced to prison. While JaRule and
Billy McFarland were forced to restitute $26 million to the attendees. It can be deduced that each
crime varied case by case, thus receiving a different charge. Therefore, the judge needs to review
the case and determine whether the charges are justifiable.
References
Biography. (2020). Lucky Luciano Biography. Retrieved from:
https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/lucky-luciano
Conrad, A. (2018). How Fyre Festival fell apart. Retrieved from:
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/fyre-festival-founder-billy-mcfarland
Gerhardt, M. J. (2018). Impeachment: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford University Press.
Schram, P. J., & Tibbetts, S. G. (2019). Introduction to criminology: Why do they do it? SAGE
Publications, Incorporated.
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