MC Concept Check $06-04$

A hypothetical clothing company called GreenDuds prides itself on not using international child labor to manufacture its products. However, the company secretly uses child labor and wishes to keep it from the public. Someone at the company knows the company is using child labor and leaks this information to the media. GreenDuds' owners retaliate and hire investigators to locate the source of the leaks to the media through obtaining private telephone records. They tell the investigators to use "whatever means necessary" to get the phone records.

GreenDuds potentially committed what crime in hiring the investigators to search through telephone records?

multiple choice

Extortion

Bribery

Embezzlement

Telemarketing fraud

Pretexting