Mahathir Mohamad Quotes

Those who embezzle public funds should be ready to face the consequences.

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.

Christopher Finazzo had a great job that paid him millions of dollars, but this honest living was apparently not enough to satisfy his greed.

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

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.

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

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.

Follow the Money

A special prosecutor follows the money and follows the lies.

A street criminal can steal only what he can carry, but with a stroke of a pen, the dialing of a telephone or the pushing of a computer key, the white collar criminal can and does steal billions.

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

I operated a business where I let someone steal three-quarters of a million dollars.

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

Russia has a well-known reputation for corruption; unfortunately, I discovered that it was far worse than many had thought. While working in Moscow I learned that Russian oligarchs stole from shareholders, which included the fund I advised.

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

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

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.

From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical companies, consulting and law firms, government agencies, and even a major stock exchange.

You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has changed so much, and to really do a movie with, like, drug dealers or drug smugglers is kind of almost quaint at this point.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

From 1983 to 2000, William Goren stole more than $30 million from investors on Long Island and in Queens. His favorite targets were widows and retired couples, like Helga and Simon Novack, Holocaust survivors who gave Mr. Goren their life savings.

A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.

Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.

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.