Embezzlement Quotes
Most people at the time thought that political corruption was limited to politicians being bribed with money to do or not to do things. It dawned on Stephens that beyond the payment of money per se—that it could involve financial arrangements like shares in companies or tips for investment, business arrangements for family companies then or in the future or even social favors. He was the first political observer to not the variety of forms of political corruption.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
This work of Chekov’s was censored heavily by the Russian Communists of the 1920s and 1930s who publicly glorified the Russian peasant. Chekov’s observation, like many of poverty-stricken populations observed the status quo and did not comment on how the state of affairs came to be in the first place.
When his wife Benizir Bhutto was prime minister, there was a perception of many Pakistanis that he was getting 10% graft on all government construction, development and purchases. After his wife was assassinated, he was elected Prime Minister, and the notorious nickname stuck even then.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
His foundation is trying to improve development and health in much of the world and he was remarking on how difficult it is if the local government is not attuned to it and supportive.
A few years later Mitchell himself was convicted and sent to prison.
In the economic meltdown of 2008 and the aftermath, there were so many criminal violations of law in the financial industry that even the Democratic administration of Barack Obama chose not to jail the violators but to levy some large token fines albeit ones which were very affordable for the institutions who had to pay them—in many cases paying them with money made as a result of profits on no-interest money they received in bailouts after the 2008 Meltdown.
