White Collar Criminals Cartoons

"We're talking business ethics not ethics."

"I thought it was legal-I wrote it on a legal pad."

"Oh, what the hell, I'll add another zero."

"It's the S.E.C. How do you plead?"

"True, a salary cap on Wall Street may limit the talent pool, but, on the other hand, if they get any more talented we'll all be broke."

"Do you think now we're doing fewer illegal things we can scale back the legal department?"

"Number 6522719? Our executive assistant warden says he's sorry but he's been unavoidably detained at the squash court. However, if you will leave your criminal record he'll be happy to reschedule for next week."

"Son, someday this will all be exposed in the Panama Papers."

"My client would like to do his community service in the financial community."

"Look, Peg, you don't really have to dress like that for computer crime."

"As your cell bitch, I imagine my Sarbanes-Oxley expertise should come in quite handy."

"Can we move our lunch up to noon? I've got to be at City Hall by two to be arrested."

"But I thought once the I.R.S. applied a penalty, that was the end of it."

"There you have it, gentlemen—the upside potential is tremendous, but the downside risk is jail."

"I move for less transparency."

"What we're going to say to the jury is 'Love the embezzler. Hate the embezzlement."

"Nothing to speak of. Someone left a Bronx cheer on your voice mail."

"I've never understood—what is the difference between morals and ethics?"

"I'm sorry I couldn't be there but I was able to TiVo your perp walk."

"It's important that no one see us talking together."

The Straw Entrepreneur, The Tin Accountant, and The Cowardly Attorney

"Guess who's going to be on national television apologizing to the American public."

"Everybody's impressed with how you can shred incriminating documents into one long strand."

"Look, let's just say I haven't seen anything, Charlie hasn't heard anything, and Tom hasn't said anything."