Michael Garcia Quotes (26 Quotes)

Any time you take out top leader leadership of an organization charged with serious crimes ... you have to believe you are having an impact.

After working around the clock since Monday, this office, along with the Postal Inspector's office were able to develop evidence that Phillip Bennett had played an active role in hiding from the public the debt from Refco,

Since June, ICE and CBP staffs have had numerous meetings with no resolution. Neither has CBP transferred any funds due to ICE. We need immediate resolution of these funding issues, otherwise ICE will have no choice but to begin curtailment of services provided to both ICE and CBP.

Bennett had been keeping this debt a secret from regulators and from the members of the public who had just two months ago invested hundreds of millions of dollars in an initial public offering,

I worked with the best of the best in Houston. Painting has been a lifetime hobby.

ICE teams have been in Iraq since the war began in March, where they've been working with the Department of Defense to peel back the layers of Saddam's covert weapons procurement network and track down his suppliers.

These are cultural treasures, ... and they really do not belong to any one person, they belong to a society, a culture, and they should be enjoyed by everyone. ICE's mission is to stop the illicit trade in these artifacts, to track down and return these items and make sure they go back to their rightful owners.

The word isn't getting out so much, and if more people knew, they would campaign.

Today we are sending a message to those U.S. companies and individuals that may have helped arm the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein,

This innovative settlement demonstrates the federal government's resolve to protect the health and safety of this City's citizens through enforcement of our nation's environmental laws. The settlement will ensure compliance with federal laws and regulations.

If he is saying, 'The prison conditions made me a killer,' ... we can say, 'No. In fact, you exhibited the same behavior before.'

It was mass murder in cold blood, ... He prepared for it, he studied for it, he trained for it, and he carried it out.

The case that we bring today involves nothing less than the brazen attempt to steal the wealth of a sovereign nation, ... The defendants ... attempted to bribe key decision-makers and corrupt the privatization process.

They attempted to run an insider trading business as a money making machine.

You'll be hearing about pain, pain that this defendant caused, ... Listen to what the victims lost that day, the day the defendant killed.

He knowingly, willingly participated in this crime, ... He wanted to kill, he intended to kill, and he did kill.

After their testimony the suffering and the pain caused by this defendant can now be associated with real family, with real lives lost, lives that were stolen by this defendant.

Focus on his actions, his crime, his active central role in this atrocity,

We had to struggle to find crimes in the books that fit the conduct here.

These defendants developed their sources of information in the hopes of running that insider trading business as a money-making machine, and for a little while it worked, netting millions of dollars.

It's a way to leverage your time and money to hire institutional money managers that wouldn't be available to you. Normally, if an individual client wanted just to hire an individual portfolio manager outside of a brokerage firm, sometimes those minimums are anywhere from 1 million to 10 million per account.

The Oil-for-Food program was designed to provide humanitarian relief to the Iraqi people these defendants undermined those relief efforts to line their own pockets with oil profits.

Proper management of underground storage tanks makes sense from both an environmental and economic standpoint. A leak of just one gallon from an underground tank can be costly and time-consuming to remediate. This settlement will improve the health and safety of our city's resident.

This is an organization that used violence and threats to protect enormous profits.

This is an impact on the survivors, ... It is still a case of mass murder.

This defendant is a danger to anyone he would come into contact with,