Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
Corruption is a cancer on the body of development.
Many scammers are only using personal checks for payment because they can take the money and run.
We shouldn’t be lending money to corrupt officials. We should be guarded in our generosity.
Alchemists are criminal and shall forfeit to the public all the gold that they have been able to obtain.
These Yankee politicians are the lowest race of thieves in existence.
If you haven't signed anything, you cant be ripped off.
What was my great sin? To have revealed the private property of the bank - well if this is being a criminal, then maybe I'm a great criminal.
False Claims Act violators who self-report generally receive the same penalties and face the same damages as those who are caught. I think this makes very little sense.
I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.
I think an ethical lawyer would absolutely refuse, if he or she had knowledge that this is the purpose for which her work would be used, that is, to conceal a fraudulent scheme from federal regulators.
We're going after the possibilities of tax fraud, insurance fraud, securities fraud. We're going to look at this stuff very closely. We have the jurisdiction, we have the resources, and we have the will.
I didn't defraud the government by taking money that was not mine.
Where cheating is, there's mischief there.
My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.
Police in Texas arrested a man who was using the alias 'Barack Obama' while trying to steal money from 35 ATMs. They could tell something was up when a guy named Barack Obama was trying to take money from banks instead of giving it to them.
What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.
We have even made businessmen return money that they have looted from the Exchequer in the past.
One of the most popular scams is what they call account takeover. You write me a check, and I simply go online to a check-printing service and order 200 checks with your account information.
Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.
Corruption in government is an overwhelming problem.
My identity was stolen by two separate peoplewho I hope are playing me better
I'm not gonna waste my money watching two cheaters fight. Why would I? They're cheaters, in the end. That's basically all they are. They should get nothing.
He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
When public officials turn to financial gain for official acts, we have no choice but to prosecute.
