Chris Chocola Quotes

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

I rob banks for a living, what do you do?

The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.

When Prohibition was first enacted in 1920, most people stockpiled alcohol, thinking they'd have enough to last them for years. By 1923, that was starting to run out, so your average person started to rely more and more on criminals.

Regulatory enforcement mechanisms need to be sure and they need to be swift.

Bookmaking is the most menacing racket in the entire field of organized crime.

Crime is contagious.

This is a business that works outside the law.

Drug traffickers have more and more haystacks in which to hide their contraband needles.

Obviously crime pays, or there would be no crime.

It is absolutely essential that bank supervisory bodies have the enforcement tools, the independence, and the political support to take tough enforcement measures when they are needed. Everything else—more uniform accounting standards, improved disclosure, and risk-based supervision—will count for little if supervisors lack effective powers of enforcement and the will to use them.

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

We have decriminalized Wall Street malfeasance.

We inspector generals have the power of the pen, the power to persuade. But we do not have the authority to implement our recommendations or prosecute wrong-doing.

There is no doubt that cross border crime and illicit trade harm individuals and communities and pose challenges to governments, including the United States. But the panicked discourse and frenzied law enforcement policies that define Washington’s current approach are an alarmist reaction.

Take the most effectual measures to arresting, detaining and securing any Gunpowder, or any sort of Arms or Ammunition which may be attempted to be imported into the province under your government.

The Federal Trade Commission is not an enforcement agency.

People have to cooperate. Many people and traders here try to evade tax. They don’t want to pay tax so they smuggle goods and services into this country to make more money—as much as possible. The also manipulate the foreign currency market.

The greater the penalties laid on sellers in the black market... the higher the black market price.

The can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money.

A bootlegger is a bootlegger, a scalper is a scalper.

When we started out, there was so much cash involved that it attracted an element you'd rather not do business with.

When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal.

When you criminalize something, only criminals can deal with it. When criminals deal with it, there's no recourse to law, so there's only recourse to violence.

Criminals know that if they stay under certain thresholds, nobody is going to come after them.