Quotes About Fraud

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

Of all the get-rich-quick magnates that have operated, Ponzi is the king.

In the remarkable seven months since it had opened for business, the Securities Exchange Company had amassed thirty thousand investors and $9.6 million. All Ponzi had to do to keep them satisfied was to pay them nearly $15 million in return.

Deceit, fraud and corruption can emerge anywhere within the nation and most of the times it comes from the top, the ruling elites.

Fraud doesn't benefit anyone except the individual who is involved, but it hurts many innocent souls and leaves them devastated for a lifetime.

Ä°nsanlar?n iyi niyetleri suistimal ediliyor." "Kim taraf?ndan?" "Biz tabii ki!Hasta insanlar?n buraya gelip o aptalca hikayelere inanmalar?na izin veriyoruz ve iÅŸleri onlar için daha kötü hale getiriyoruz." "?nsanlar?n okuduklar? ÅŸeylere inanmalr?n?engelleyen bir yasa henüz yok ,Abby." "Fakat doland?rmay? engelleyen var.

Nor was the monster public the only one deceived.

The problem was that public had no way to know that this "evidence" was part of an industry campaign designed to confuse. It was, in fact, part of a criminal conspiracy to commit fraud.

The industry was finally found guilty under the RICO Act (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations).121 In 2006, U.S. district judge Gladys Kessler found that the tobacco industry had "devised and executed a scheme to defraud consumers and potential consumers" about the hazards of cigarettes, hazards that their own internal company documents proved they had known about since the 1950s.

In 2006, U.S. district judge Gladys Kessler found that the tobacco industry had "devised and executed a scheme to defraud consumers and potential consumers" about the hazards of cigarettes, hazards that their own internal company documents proved they had known about since the 1950s.

So industry executives made a fateful decision, one that would later become the basis on which a federal judge would find the industry guilty of conspiracy to commit fraud—a massive and ongoing fraud to deceive the American public about the health effects of smoking.24 The decision was to hire a public relations firm to challenge the scientific evidence that smoking could kill you.

people born in Cuba represented less than 1% of the U.S. population but committed 41% of Medicare fraud.

The public frets about cheating with food stamps (the fraud rate is about 1.5 percent) yet doesn't understand that zillionaires hide assets abroad and thereby deprive the Treasury of some $36 billion a year in taxes—enough to pay for high-quality pre-K and day care for all.

I'm exhausted by your lies. By all the pretence. By the constant . . . I don't know . . . the constant obfuscation, I suppose, is the word.

And so let us trot out the rascal!

They are bought by some rascal of a cook whom a Frenchman has taught how to skin a tomcat and then serve it up as hare.

It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

Here again the Japanese method of interior decoration differs from that of the Occident, where we see objects arrayed symmetrically on mantelpieces and elsewhere. In Western houses we are often confronted with what appears to us useless reiteration. We find it trying to talk to a man while his full-length portrait stares at us from behind his back. We wonder which is real, he of the picture or he who talks, and feel a curious conviction that one of them must be fraud.

Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments.

Determinedly take no one seriously but God, and the first person you find you have to leave severely alone as being the greatest fraud you have ever known, is yourself.

Make a determination to take no one seriously except God. You may find that the first person you must be the most critical with, as being the greatest fraud you have ever known, is yourself.

There's a sucker born every minute.

They encourage the suspicion – potentially lethal among the hundreds of millions of people condemned to superfluousness – that the present order, democratic or authoritarian, is built upon force and fraud; they incite a broader and more apocalyptic mood than we have witnessed before. They also underscore the need for some truly transformative thinking, about both the self and the world.