Paul Manafort Quotes

A person who steals a chicken might go to jail … but a person who steals millions is welcome to be a member of the Federation Council or the Duma.

Despite the left's best hopes, the Manafort indictment didn't contain a single reference to the Trump campaign and the charges he faces are completely tailored to a decade of shady business deals overseas. Collusion wasn't the center of the charges and President Donald Trump was left out of it.

Reliable numbers about the amount of dirty money around the world are difficult to come by. But according to an estimate by the nonprofit Global Financial Integrity group, $1 trillion vanishes from the developing world's economies every year.

I've never taken one cent from a savings and loan. I've never taken one cent from an oil company ...

The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its supporters dead. Let this be had.

There will be huge scandals because there is too much money washing around …. And we don’t know who’s behind it.

A special prosecutor follows the money and follows the lies.

Black money is a cancer in our economic system, not yet terminal or life-threatening.

Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.

Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has seen a few financial schemes in his time. As the lead local prosecutor in the world's financial capital, he has battled frauds like the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which stole billions of dollars from investors worldwide.

I've never had a penny through oil deals and no one has produced a shred of evidence that I have.

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

Those who willfully conceal assets overseas undermine the playing field for all taxpayers.

White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.

Rogue economics is a sort of umbrella under which we find the criminal economy, the illegal economy, but also those gray areas, gray areas where there is not a proper regulation, where there is not legislation for the economy.

Corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion are global problems, not just challenges for developing countries.

Most members of Congress were simply on the take from the savings and loan industry.

We have even made businessmen return money that they have looted from the Exchequer in the past.

The subconscious moral sense or the people has come to a distinct realization of the fact that crimes are possible in what we call high finance as they are in lower quarters.