Lynn Westmoreland Quotes

Follow the Money

I rob banks because that's where the money is.

I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.

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.

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

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

With a certain amount of simplification, money laundering and terrorist financing are opposites. In money laundering, dirty money becomes clean; in terrorist financing, clean money becomes dirty.

Massive tax avoidance. Billions and billions of dollars.

The New York Times ,the New York Times is actually telling the Clinton, both of them that they need to come clean on all the money where it came frоm.

Trust me, I'm going to find out where the money has gone and how it has been spent, and see if we can't get it down there quicker to let that rebuilding start.

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.

The war against terrorism is a war of auditors and accountants as much as of weaponry …. Just as we prosecute a terrorist who plants a bomb, we well prosecute the terrorist supporter who writes a check.

It is money that fuels the enterprise of terrorism …. You can stop the killing if you stop the flow of money.

Money is the lifeblood of terrorist operations.

Where is the money?

The best way to rob a bank is to own it.

Such a crime as the embezzlement of any of the coins struck at the Mint, or of any of the metals brought to the Mint for coinage, would be punished under the laws of Pennsylvania, by a fine and penitentiary imprisonment at hard labor. The punishment annexed to this crime by the laws of the United States, enacted for the special protection of deposits made at the Mint, is DEATH.

How do you lose track of 12 billion dollars of cash? Send it to Iraq. 360 tons of cash. We know how much it weighed but we don’t know where it went.

Why attempt to keep drugs out of the country, or prevent them from being sold? After all, police can't be everywhere at once. Since choices have to be made, it will be tempting to let the drug trade proceed unmolested, then just go after the cash.

Those involved in organized crime are generally motivated by one thing–profit. Huge sums of money are generated through arms smuggling, trafficking of human beings and narcotic substances, and financial crimes. These monies are laundered so that they have the appearance in our financial system of the proceeds of legitimate business activity.

The Isle of Man managed to slip through a crack in the space-time continuum...fallen off the back of the history lorry to lie amnesiac in the road to progress...its main industry is money (laundering, pressing, altering and mending)...The weather’s foul, the food’s medieval, it’s covered in suicidal motorists and folk who believe in fairies

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

The one place that bitcoins seem to be used as money is in crime.