Quotes About Fraud

In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect.

The Tax Division is committed to prosecuting accountants who assist their clients in fraudulent tax schemes.

Most economies have a fair amount of tax evasion, depending on how their data systems are.

People who prepare false or fraudulent tax returns risk criminal prosecution and, upon conviction, substantial time in jail.

There is a way for the IRS to be able to have a double check to make sure individuals don't file on your Social Security number early and try to get a tax return and make it chaotic for you to file your own taxes. That's not been done.

Wall Street criminality is growing by leaps. There are no bounds.

Once Count Victor Lustig, swindler par excellence, had sold dozens of suckers around the country a phony box with which he claimed to be able to copy money. Discovering

Why is our life so cruel and dark That men no longer speak to friend? Why does evil so clearly mark The monstrous government of men? Compare what is with what is past And see how fraud and sorrow stand, While law and justice fade so fast That I know no longer where I am.

She hated the powerlessness. The feeling of weakness always lurking beneath the surface, making her confidence seem phony, making her feel like a fraud. Other people in her profession went about the whir of life so nonchalantly, and their ease had always felt alien to her. It made her feel estranged from everyone else. How could people see what they saw—especially social workers and beat cops who saw everything—and not be consumed with anger all the time? How did they do it? Tara

regummed. A regummed stamp is one which has lost its original gum somewhere along the way, only to have it replaced with new gum. When the equivalent is performed on, say, a Rembrandt oil painting, we call it restoration; when such restoration is performed on a postage stamp, we're more apt to regard it as a crime against nature, and a clear-cut example of philatelic fraud.

David Maurer's nonfiction work The Big Con.

Any opposition not based on rationalism or science or experience will one day or other, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies.

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.

Unlike those theists who at least pay lip service to science and scientific method, Johnson is out to convict science of fraud in the court of public opinion.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.

The young profession of social work sold its expertise in detecting fraud and waste.

They had encountered fraud cases, even Ponzi schemes, before. But they had never faced anything on this scale. The tally of customer losses was staggering, and the victims were spread around the globe.

Judge Chin found no mitigating factors. "In a white-collar fraud case such as this, I would expect to see letters from family and friends and colleagues. But not a single letter has been submitted attesting to Mr. Madoff's good deeds or good character or civic or charitable activities. The absence of such support is telling." Given Madoff's age, Judge Chin acknowledged that any sentence above twenty years was effectively a life sentence.

DiPascali, a small terrier-like man with the unpolished speech of his native Queens, came through for Madoff. Using self-taught computer skills and the historical stock and options prices available to any brokerage firm, he created a convincing paper trail covering several years of complex trading activity that almost certainly had never occurred.

René-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet,

The one thing he has no intention of doing, however, is investing the $10 million check so that it can generate money to cover hardworking union members' pensions in the years to come. He pours it into the river of cash that nourishes his fraud and benefits his family, as he has done so many times before.

Politics is now synonymous with hypocrisy

a faked suicide attempt (is) dishonesty