Karen Selick Quotes

It’s a giant criminal enterprise, but at least it’s a state.

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

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

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business.

I don't know whether crime is dictating business or business is dictating crime.

People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.

Every new law enforcement measure in recent years has been met with increasingly sophisticated evasive techniques on the part of organized crime.

The can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money.

I have made only two films on the underworld. I am not educating the people on the underworld.

He [Donald Trump] is like - he's a magnet for crime and extortion and, you know, just really criminal investments which are extremely dangerous.

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.

To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power.

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

You look at the descriptions of Whitey by law enforcement during his early years, and they sum him up pretty well. He was the same guy 40 years later; he just had $40 million more, and had committed 40 more murders.

I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot.

Mafia states integrate the speed and flexibility of transnational criminal networks with the legal protections and diplomatic privileges enjoyed only by states.

Undoubtedly, Mexico's crime-related problems have become a focus of attention among lawmakers, law enforcement, and the media in the United States.

I do a lot of lecturing, at colleges and police schools, and I always get the same questions: 'Do they really kill you? What do they do with the money? How do you become a wiseguy?'

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

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

Where I grew up, in New Jersey, there was a lot of organised crime activity. It was a part of life.

Members of organized crime continue to exploit their victims the old-fashioned way - through violence, threats and intimidation. As law enforcement has so successfully done before, we will employ our own time-tested techniques to bring them to justice to account for their crimes.