Matthew Whitaker Quotes

All the arrows continue to point to a personal, political, and financial relationship that Donald Trump had with the Russians.

I worry that there are financial ties between the Trumps and the Saudi royal family.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

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

I don't know of anything illegal or even unethical that Bert Lance has ever done.

Behind a mask of apparent openness and accountability to which once-trusted accountancy firms and business analysts were willing collaborators, a raft of corrupt practices has undermined the livelihoods and expectations of millions.

Abramoff did not own me, but we did engage in the culture of corruption together.

When a member of Congress has a leadership PAC, he can be legally bribed by making donations to the PAC because when the member of Congress retires or is voted out of office, he is allowed to use the leadership PAC money that remains for his and his family’s personal expenses.

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

Follow the Money

Theft and corruption in the private sector is as bad as that in government and must be dealt with decisively by law enforcement agencies.

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.

Michael Cohen is a criminal, and he deserves the max penalty.

We're carrying out a real crusade against corruption and impunity with a focus on white-collar crime.

If you have Trump avoiding income tax and money coming in, and then he's still able to control it and use it as if it was his income to help his interests, then you're starting to see a bigger legal problem.

In the U.S., it is a crime to lie to a federal agent, and it's often this that sends people to jail over financial matters.

Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery.

We look at Donald Trump: his bottom line is interconnected to all kinds of financial interests that he refuses to disclose. They actually affect his net worth.

No one involved in corruption will be spared, no matter who they are, I assure you. Whether a minister, a prince, or anyone. Anyone who is guilty of corruption will be held accountable.

With commerce comes fraud.

It's naive of anyone to think there is no corruption in football because it's everywhere.

White collar crime must be taken as seriously as any other crime.

You don't have to be a criminal to write about fraud!

Any U.S. attorney's office would fall over itself to investigate, for example, a state governor who, while running for reelection against a former mayor, so much as hinted to the mayor's successor that, say, highway funds would be restricted unless the current mayor were to announce an inquiry into her predecessor's alleged corruption.