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Corporate Crime 34 Law & Order episodes

Crimes committed in boardrooms and businesses, where companies and executives end up in the dock.

  1. Season 2 · Episode 13

    Severance

    Aired January 14, 1992 · Contract killing / triple murder

    A professional hit in a parking garage turns out to have been aimed at someone the police didn’t know was there.

  2. Season 2 · Episode 22

    The Working Stiff

    Aired May 12, 1992 · Murder for hire / bank fraud

    A Wall Street takeover legend is shot in the head at his trading desk before dawn.

  3. Season 3 · Episode 4

    The Corporate Veil

    Aired October 14, 1992 · Defective medical devices / murder

    A teenager dies when his pacemaker fails, and the investigation moves from a dealer in recycled devices to the family that runs the manufacturer.

  4. Season 4 · Episode 8

    American Dream

    Aired November 9, 1993 · Murder / witness murder

    Remains found on Roosevelt Island contradict the testimony that sent a Wall Street swindler to prison for murder years earlier, and he uses the discovery to win a new trial, representing himself against Stone.

  5. Season 4 · Episode 22

    Old Friends

    Aired May 25, 1994 · Murder

    A baby food executive’s death on a busy street is revealed as a mob hit, and Stone’s case depends on a terrified witness.

  6. Season 5 · Episode 9

    Scoundrels

    Aired November 30, 1994 · Murder / fraud

    A lawyer’s murder exposes a scheme to fleece victims of a savings and loan swindler, and McCoy goes after the swindler himself.

  7. Season 5 · Episode 13

    Rage

    Aired February 1, 1995 · Murder

    A Wall Street executive’s staged suicide leads to his top trader, whose lawyers argue that a lifetime of racism drove him to kill.

  8. Season 7 · Episode 4

    Survivor

    Aired October 23, 1996 · Manslaughter / fraud

    A rare-coin dealer is killed in his gallery, and the hunt for a missing collection leads from a flamboyant tycoon to the daughter of a Holocaust survivor.

  9. Season 7 · Episode 8

    Family Business

    Aired November 20, 1996 · Murder

    The finance chief of a family-owned Manhattan department store is shot in his office, and suspicion falls on both of the owner’s daughters.

  10. Season 9 · Episode 4

    Flight

    Aired October 21, 1998 · Murder by injected bacteria / corporate negligence

    A child’s death from an exotic bacterium first looks like bioterrorism, then points to his father, and McCoy charges the company that mailed the germ to get the proof he needs.

  11. Season 9 · Episode 16

    Harm

    Aired March 3, 1999 · Assault / homicide in surgery

    The beating of a retired divorce lawyer leads Carmichael to a busy gynecology practice where a patient died after an equipment saleswoman ran an unapproved fluid pump during routine surgery.

  12. Season 9 · Episode 20

    Empire

    Aired May 5, 1999 · Murder by drug overdose

    A powerful bond analyst dies after a massive Viagra dose, and a charity fundraiser with her own angle helps the DA’s office go after the developer behind a new stadium.

  13. Season 9 · Episode 24

    Refuge, Part 2

    Aired May 26, 1999 · Murder / money laundering

    After a prosecutor and a child witness’s mother are murdered, McCoy follows the Russian mob’s money to a New York banker shipping planeloads of U.S. cash to Moscow.

  14. Season 10 · Episode 1

    Gunshow

    Aired September 22, 1999 · Mass shooting / corporate liability

    A gunman with a converted machine pistol kills 15 people in Central Park, most of them women, and McCoy pursues both the shooter and the company that built the gun.

  15. Season 10 · Episode 8

    Blood Money

    Aired December 1, 1999 · Robbery / murder / grand larceny

    An elderly man dies in a taxi from a stab wound and a hidden gunshot, and his death exposes an insurance company’s effort to bury policies sold to Jewish families during World War II.

  16. Season 10 · Episode 16

    Trade This

    Aired March 1, 2000 · Murder for hire / securities fraud

    The shooting of a junior broker uncovers a rigged internet stock, a staged harassment settlement and a mob family’s missing millions, and McCoy builds a death-penalty case with gangsters as his victims.

  17. Season 10 · Episode 22

    High & Low

    Aired May 17, 2000 · Murder / insider trading

    A business student who secretly danced at strip clubs is raped and strangled in her dorm, and the trail runs from skinhead drug dealers to a banker leaking stock tips to a former porn star.

  18. Season 11 · Episode 2

    Turnstile Justice

    Aired October 25, 2000 · Murder / criminally negligent homicide

    A woman is struck down with a paving stone in a subway station by a psychotic man freed from Rikers Island the night before, and McCoy charges the executive whose company ran the jail’s medical care.

  19. Season 12 · Episode 4

    Soldier of Fortune

    Aired October 24, 2001 · Kidnapping / murder

    A diamond dealer is seized at gunpoint in an attack that kills two people, and the case leads to $100 million in conflict diamonds, soldiers from Sierra Leone and the head of the world’s dominant diamond cartel.

  20. Season 12 · Episode 12

    Undercovered

    Aired January 16, 2002 · Murder / kidnapping

    A health insurance supervisor is killed with a hammer, and the man charged argues he had to do it because the company had refused the one drug that might save his nine-year-old daughter.

  21. Season 12 · Episode 15

    Access Nation

    Aired February 27, 2002 · Murder / manslaughter

    A young psychologist is stabbed to death by a paroled rapist she was treating, and the prosecutors pursue the online data company that sold him her private history.

  22. Season 12 · Episode 18

    Equal Rights

    Aired April 3, 2002 · Murder for hire

    When a Wall Street analyst is gunned down on his way to the ferry, the trail runs past a collapsed tech stock to his wife, who says years of beatings drove her to have him killed.

  23. Season 12 · Episode 19

    Slaughter

    Aired April 10, 2002 · Murder / corporate manslaughter

    The stabbing of a student looking into a meat plant leads McCoy past the killer to the fast-food executive who kept buying tainted beef.

  24. Season 13 · Episode 15

    Bitch

    Aired February 26, 2003 · Murder

    A charming stockbroker is killed in his home, and the case leads from his photographer girlfriend to her mother, a cosmetics tycoon and friend of DA Arthur Branch.

  25. Season 15 · Episode 4

    Coming Down Hard

    Aired October 6, 2004 · Criminally negligent homicide / depraved-indifference murder

    Two students at the same university fall to their deaths within a week, and both turn out to have been paid subjects in a high-dose antidepressant trial whose sponsor kept its worst results hidden.

  26. Season 15 · Episode 20

    Tombstone

    Aired April 13, 2005 · Murder of a law firm associate

    A junior lawyer is killed with a deal trophy inside a powerful Manhattan firm, and the case against a newly minted partner is tangled up with a securities fraud probe and the shooting of Det. Ed Green.

  27. Season 15 · Episode 22

    Sport of Kings

    Aired May 4, 2005 · Murder / pension fund theft

    A Panamanian jockey who can’t get rides is shot dead outside a downtown bar, and his curiosity about a gifted colt leads to the horse’s owner, a company chief who bought it with his employees’ retirement money.

  28. Season 17 · Episode 6

    Profiteer

    Aired October 27, 2006 · Murder / defective body armor

    The murder of a body armor executive at his daughter’s sweet 16 party leads to an Iraq veteran avenging a fallen friend, and then to the company official who shipped vests he knew might fail.

  29. Season 17 · Episode 10

    Corner Office

    Aired December 8, 2006 · Murder / corporate eavesdropping

    The murder of a company’s general counsel, days before he is due to testify to Congress about corporate eavesdropping, leads to a former call girl and the CEO who supports her.

  30. Season 18 · Episode 2

    Darkness

    Aired January 2, 2008 · Kidnapping / murder

    During a citywide blackout, kidnappers kill a housekeeper and seize a hedge fund manager’s wife and daughter, and the search for the plot’s organizer uncovers a scheme to rig the power market.

  31. Season 18 · Episode 4

    Bottomless

    Aired January 16, 2008 · Murder / corporate cover-up

    The killing of a young lawyer defending her parents’ dry-cleaning shop in a lost-pants lawsuit uncovers a retail executive’s affair and a company cover-up of poisoned toothpaste.

  32. Season 19 · Episode 17

    Anchors Away

    Aired March 25, 2009 · Murder / securities fraud

    A demoted TV reporter is killed while pursuing a tip that a celebrated hedge fund is a fraud, and the case exposes a jealous anchor, a Ponzi scheme and a devoted marriage.

  33. Season 20 · Episode 8

    Doped

    Aired November 6, 2009 · Vehicular murder / drug tampering

    A pharmaceutical sales manager drives the wrong way up the West Side Highway with four children in her minivan, and what looks like a drunk-driving disaster proves to be a scheme to discredit a whistleblower.

  34. Season 20 · Episode 21

    Immortal

    Aired May 17, 2010 · Stabbing / murder

    A Bronx father’s fatal stabbing exposes a drug company’s hunt for the descendants of a Black man whose cancer cells it has sold for decades without ever paying his family.

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