Michael Garcia Quotations

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.

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

He should still be carrying this country's flag -- not coming out of the embassy wrapped in one,

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

KPMG and HVB have admitted that they and their co-conspirators used false and misleading documentation to cheat the government out of billions of dollars in taxes owed by America's wealthiest citizens.

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

We're all striving to get back to normalcy,

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

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

We might introduce evidence that he had this intent, that he in fact counseled others to commit similar types of crimes, murders, before he was in prison, before he was subjected to these conditions,

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,

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

Fees are very transparent in a separately managed account. You know exactly how much you're paying.

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

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.

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.

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,

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.

That smuggling activity exposes a vulnerability in our border security, and that is a vulnerability we will address.

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

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

This case demonstrates that even experienced investors in hedge funds can be victims of unscrupulous operators.

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.

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.

They are now fugitives. We will be using our resources to find them.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Al-'Owhali is the rare exception: the criminal, the murderer who deserves the ultimate penalty which is authorized under our law,

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.