Examples of self-dealing include directing corporate business to firms in which the agent has a financial interest, exploiting organizational resources to create new opportunities from which the agent can benefit (a municipal official rezoning a spouse's property for commercial use, a banker extending unsecured bank loans to his friends, a conservator using the assets of an incompetent widow to invest in personal real estate deals), or using corporate information for personal advantage-so-called insider trading.

Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Imper…, loc. 68