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Quotes About Fraud

Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.
~ Linus Pauling
Nah, his fake company produced paperwork that real people could use to apply for real visas. Guy got greedy, though. Soon enough, the powers that be got wise to a small firm needing hundreds of engineers. Especially when none of the foreigners applying for work had an engineering degree. Good while it lasted, though.
~ Lisa Gardner
The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.
~ Ludwig von Mises
The one infallible sign that a spiritual teacher is a fraud is that he charges money for his instruction.
~ Alan Chadwick
If Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If he isn't, it would be the greatest fraud.
~ Greg LeMond
Duplicity (Noun) Deceitfulness in speech or conduct; double-dealing. Synonyms: deceit, deception, fraud, guile, trickery. The state or quality of having two elements or parts; being twofold or double. —Dictionary.com
~ Douglas E. Richards
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
In 1991, Warren Burger called the new interpretation of the Second Amendment "one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word 'fraud,' on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.
~ Jill Lepore
Largely incomprehensible: Madoff's staff of high school–educated clerks facilitated the Ponzi scheme for 40 years without a single one ever realizing it was a Ponzi scheme.
~ Jim Campbell
Donald Trump is a fraud. Listening to him talk about how he's going to put American first again, he's spent his entire career putting his own profits first.
~ Tom Perez
My favorite pre-Ponzi schemer was known as '520 Percent Miller' because he promised 10 percent returns a week, or 520 percent a year. Of course he was just using new investors' money to pay old investors, and soon he was on the lam.
~ Mitchell Zuckoff
In 2004, Warner-Lambert, a division of Pfizer Inc., pled guilty to two felonies and agreed to pay $430 million for fraudulently promoting the drug Neurontin.
~ Bernie Sanders
Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
~ Charles Duhigg
Consular cards are easily obtained with no proof of true identity and are easily forged.
~ Elton Gallegly
People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.
~ Julian Baggini
Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability.
~ Frank Abagnale
Ordinarily, the feds piggyback on the S.E.C. in complicated financial cases, but history proves that breath-holding on that score is a dangerous endeavor.
~ Gary Weiss
I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Chief Justice Warren Burger, a conservative appointed by Richard Nixon, described the new interpretation of the Second Amendment in an interview after his tenure as 'one of the greatest pieces of fraud-I repeat the word FRAUD-on the American public by special-interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.
~ Fareed Zakaria
He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
~ Jonathan Swift
The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
~ Sara Paretsky
White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
~ Adam McKay
White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.
~ Sara Paretsky
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
~ Phaedrus