Nathan Blecharczyk Quotes

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

I know every trick in the book, in terms of schemes and fraud.

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.

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

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

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.

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

The usual trade and commerce is cheating all around by consent.

The only area in our society in which I favor more regulation is controlling fraud. Fraud harms markets and more important, fraud harms families.

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.

We're going after the possibilities of tax fraud, insurance fraud, securities fraud. We're going to look at this stuff very closely. We have the jurisdiction, we have the resources, and we have the will.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.

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

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.

… one of the world's most disgraceful scams

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.

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.

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

At the FBI, very rarely do they investigate crime under $100,000.