Ahead Quote by Audrey Strauss

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…

— Alex Berenson

Wall Street, with its army of brokers, analysts, and advisers funneling trillions of dollars into mutual funds, hedge funds, and private equity funds, is…

— Michael Lewis

Crist noted that his office has received multiple fraud complaints in which potential buyers said they lost thousands of dollars. I don't know if…

— Charlie Crist

Over the years, Charlie [Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman] and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have…

— Warren Buffett

“The bankers and financiers are badly overplaying their hands, again, and people are starting to catch on to the scam. Real wealth is tangible…

— Chris Martenson

Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.

— Dan Gilbert

Get-educated-quick schemes are usually about as sound as subprime mortgage-backed securities: Enticing but basically fraudulent.

— Tucker Carlson

As the titanic losses were racking up, Fannie Mae's operators, Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorelick, disguised the catastrophe by orchestrating a $5 billion accounting…

— Ann Coulter

On Wall Street, fraudulent schemes tend to thrive during economic booms, and to blow up when times turn tough.

— James Surowiecki

We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were…

— Dan Gilbert

American Hustle shows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned them down.

— Larry Pressler

The 1984 tax trials, when he appealed his New York state and New York City audits, were about Donald Trump claiming zero revenue for…

— Hillary Clinton