You're listening to the Fresh Hell Podcast. Fresh Hell contains stories of a disturbing

and often graphic nature and is intended for a mature audience.

Please don't let your kids listen to this or they might turn out like us.

Hi, I'm Annie from the U.S.

and I'm Johanna the US. And I'm Yahana from Austria, and you're listening to your favorite international podcast.

The podcast hosted by two online friends who never met in real life and who get together once a week in this

online space that we created to talk about murder, mystery and the macabre throughout history.

That's right, but sometimes we also talk about other things, like animals or art-tuff.

Yeah, true, like we covered the theft of the Salira from the the Kunsty-Museum in Vienna.

That was wild.

And today we're going to cover a type of crime that we have actually never covered

before, at least I don't think we have and that is white collar crime.

Wikipedia defines white collar crime as quote.

The term white collar crime refers to financially motivated, non-violent or

non-directly violent crime committed by individuals, businesses, and government

professionals.

It was first defined by the sociologist Edwin Sutherland in 1939 as, quote,

a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of their occupation."

Typical white collar crimes could include wage theft, fraud, bribery, ponzi schemes, insider trading, labor racketeering, embezzlement,

cybercrime, money laundering, identity theft, and forgery, all manner of things that we've touched on in the past haven't we but never this deeply.

Yeah.

White collar crime overlaps with corporate crime with some frequency."

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