Bribery, a form of corruption, is an act implying money or gift given that alters the behavior of the recipient.

Bribery constitutes
a crime and is defined by Black's Law Dictionary as the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influence
the actions of an official or other person in charge of a public or legal duty.

The bribe is the gift bestowed to influence the recipient's conduct. It may be any money, good, right in action, property,
preferment, privilege, emolument, object of value, advantage, or merely a promise or undertaking to induce or influence the
action, vote, or influence of a person in an official or public capacity.

A conflict of interest (COI) occurs when an individual or organization is involved in multiple interests, one of which could
possibly corrupt the motivation for an act in the other.

A conflict of interest can only exist if a person or testimony is entrusted with some impartiality; a modicum of trust is necessary
to create it. The presence of a conflict of interest is independent from the execution of impropriety. Therefore, a conflict of
interest can be discovered and voluntarily defused before any corruption occurs.

COI is sometimes termed competition of interest rather than "conflict", emphasizing a connotation of natural competition
between valid interests rather than violent conflict with its connotation of victimhood and unfair aggression. Nevertheless,
denotatively, there is too much overlap between the terms to make any objective differentiation.

pyramid selling

   Illegal type of network marketing in which recruits pay an admission fee to join the scheme to earn commissions on persuading
other people to join the scheme, but little or no product of any real value is exchanged. Such schemes are banned in most
countries. See also Ponzi scheme. Not to be confused with pyramiding.

Multi-level marketing (MLM) is a marketing strategy in which the sales force is compensated not only for sales they personally
generate, but also for the sales of others they recruit, creating a downline of distributors and a hierarchy of multiple levels of
compensation. Other terms for MLM include network marketing,[1][2][3][4][5] direct selling,[3][6] and referral marketing.[7][8][9][10][11]
[12]

Although the products and company are supposed to be marketed directly to consumers and potential business partners by means
of relationship referrals and word of mouth marketing,[13] critics have charged that MLMs are nothing more than pyramid
schemes.[14]

MLM companies have been a frequent subject of criticism as well as the target of lawsuits. Criticism has focused on their
similarity to illegal pyramid schemes, price-fixing of products, high initial start-up costs, emphasis on recruitment of lower-tiered
salespeople over actual sales, encouraging if not requiring salespeople to purchase and use the company's products, potential
exploitation of personal relationships which are used as new sales and recruiting targets, complex and sometimes exaggerated
compensation schemes, and cult-like techniques which some groups use to enhance their members' enthusiasm and devotion. Not
all MLM companies operate the same way, and MLM groups have persistently denied that their techniques are anything but
legitimate business practices.

Money laundering is generally regarded as the practice of engaging in financial transactions to conceal the identity, source,
and/or destination of illegally gained money by which the proceeds of crime are converted into assets which appear to have a
legitimate origin. In the United Kingdom the statutory definition is wider.[1] It is common to refer to money legally obtained as
“clean”, and money illegally obtained as “dirty”.

Money laundering occurs over a period of three steps, which include the physical distribution of the cash (“placement”), the
second step involves carrying out complex financial transactions in order to camouflage the illegal source (“layering”), and the
final step which entails acquiring wealth generated from the transactions of the illicit funds (“integration”).

In the past, the term money laundering was applied only to financial transactions related to organized crime. Today its definition
is often expanded by government and international regulators such as the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to mean
any financial transaction which generates an asset or a value as the result of an illegal act, which may involve actions such as
tax evasion or false accounting. In the UK, it does not even need to involve money, but any economic good. Courts involve
money laundering committed by private individuals, drug dealers, businesses, corrupt officials, members of criminal
organizations such as the Mafia, and even states.
As financial crime has become more complex, and "Financial Intelligence" (FININT) has become more recognized in combating
international crime and terrorism, money laundering has become more prominent in political, economic, and legal debate. Money
laundering is ipso facto illegal; the acts generating the money almost always are themselves criminal in some way (for if not, the
money would not need to be laundered).

A lie is a type of deception in the form of an untruthful statement, especially with the intention to deceive others, often with the
further intention to maintain a secret or reputation, protect someone's feelings or to avoid a punishment or repercussion for one's
actions. To lie is to state something that one knows to be false or that one does not honestly believe to be true with the intention
that a person will take it for the truth. A liar is a person who is lying, who has previously lied, or who tends by nature to lie
repeatedly - even when not necessary.

Lying is typically used to refer to deceptions in oral or written communication. Other forms of deception, such as disguises or
forgeries, are generally not considered lies, though the underlying intent may be the same. However, even a true statement can be
used to deceive. In this situation, it is the intent of being overall untruthful rather than the truthfulness of any individual statement
that is considered the lie. As in the boy who cried wolf.

Serious lies (such as perjury, fraud, and defamation) are punishable by law.

A whistleblower is a person who raises a concern about alleged wrongdoing occurring in a government or governmental entity
or a private or public corporation or an organization or agency that is expected, by the public at large, to be operating within the
bounds of the law. The alleged misconduct may be classified in many ways; for example, a violation of a law, rule, regulation
and/or a direct threat to public interest, such as fraud, health/safety violations, and corruption. Whistleblowers may make their
allegations internally (for example, to other people within the accused organization) or externally (to regulators, law enforcement
agencies, to the media or to groups concerned with the issues).

Whistleblowers frequently face reprisal, sometimes at the hands of the organization or group which they have accused,
sometimes from related organizations, and sometimes under law.

Insider trading is the trading of a corporation's stock or other securities (e.g. bonds or stock options) by individuals with
potential access to non-public information about the company. In most countries, trading by corporate insiders such as officers,
key employees, directors, and large shareholders may be legal, if this trading is done in a way that does not take advantage of
non-public information. However, the term is frequently used to refer to a practice in which an insider or a related party trades
based on material non-public information obtained during the performance of the insider's duties at the corporation, or otherwise
in breach of a fiduciary or other relationship of trust and confidence or where the non-public information was misappropriated
from the company.[1]

In the United States and several other jurisdictions, trading conducted by corporate officers, key employees, directors, or
significant shareholders (in the U.S., defined as beneficial owners of ten percent or more of the firm's equity securities) must be
reported to the regulator or publicly disclosed, usually within a few business days of the trade. Many investors follow the
summaries of these insider trades in the hope that mimicking these trades will be profitable. While "legal" insider trading cannot
be based on material non-public information, some investors believe corporate insiders nonetheless may have better insights into
the health of a corporation (broadly speaking) and that their trades otherwise convey important information (e.g., about the
pending retirement of an important officer selling shares, greater commitment to the corporation by officers purchasing shares,
etc.)

Illegal insider trading is believed to raise the cost of capital for securities issuers, thus decreasing overall economic growth. [2]

Sexual harassment, is intimidation, bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of
rewards in exchange for sexual favors.[1] In some contexts or circumstances, sexual harassment may be illegal. It includes a
range of behavior from seemingly mild transgressions and annoyances to actual sexual abuse or sexual assault.[2] Sexual
harassment is a form of illegal employment discrimination in many countries, and is a form of abuse (sexual and psychological)
and bullying. For many businesses, preventing sexual harassment, and defending employees from sexual harassment charges,
have become key goals of legal decision-making. In contrast, many scholars complain that sexual harassment in education
remains a "forgotten secret," with educators and administrators refusing to admit the problem exists in their schools, or accept
their legal and ethical responsibilities to deal with it (Dziech, 1990).
Office romances—romantic relationships between two people employed by the same employer—are as common now as they
have been throughout history. The long hours many people spend at work make for a situation in which those with whom we
work are for many not only colleagues but our primary source of social contact. Therefore, romantic relationships are bound to
develop. In fact, according to an article on the Discovery Health Channel Web site, 4 out of 10 people now meet their spouses at
the office and more than half of those partaking in a survey reported to having had at least one office romance. Many office
romances end happily, but not all. For businesses, workplace romances carry with them the potential to complicate the work
environment and cause difficulties of various types—lost productivity due to distraction; accusations of favoritism; jealousy
among co-workers; the potential for an antagonistic mood should the relationship end poorly; and, in a worst-case scenario,
allegations of sexual harassment in the event that one of the parties asserts that he or she was coerced. Because of these
potential pitfalls, many firms have policies that were established to try and discourage or even prohibit such liaisons from
forming. The question for the small business owner or manager becomes: how best is one to manage such relationships so that
they do not have a negative impact on the company without infringing unduly on the privacy of employees?