How to Use white-collar crime in a Sentence

white-collar crime

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  • Many of the cases have involved white-collar crime, estate law and drunken driving.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 31 Mar. 2022
  • That is a fairly unprecedented argument to make in a white-collar crime.
    — New York Times, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Under his leadership, federal prosecutions of white-collar crime reached an all-time low.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
  • But America’s record in recent years suggests that, in the nation at large, too little shame attaches to white-collar crime.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
  • And that hampers the enforcement of many criminal violations, not just complex white-collar crime or corruption.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 17 May 2021
  • Throughout the four seasons, fans of the show have watched Marty and his wife Wendy (Laura Linney) become fully engulfed in white-collar crime and their quest for power.
    — Katherine Tinsley, Good Housekeeping, 1 May 2022
  • Despite what credulous reports might suggest, the department’s recent spate of corporate cases does not come anywhere close to compensating for an abysmal track record on financial fraud and white-collar crime during this administration.
    — Ankush Khardori, The New Republic, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The sheer scope, magnitude, and brazenness of fraud related to loans that were earmarked for people struggling to survive the pandemic is shocking even to longtime prosecutors who handle white-collar crime cases, according to several legal experts.
    — Shelley Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Feb. 2023

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