Crime Story Follower Prints

'I got busted for Identity Theft: I was pretending to be the Prince...'

'How many times do I have to tell you this, Anthony? I'm not a fence! I'm a buyer's and seller's broker servicing a vertical segment of the misappropriated merchandise industry!'

"Hello, police? I don't normally do this, but this looks like a very suspicious mole..."

Trial by Media

hard-boiled egg...

Round up all the king's horses and all the king's men for questioning.

'You know too much,'

"Stop summoning me about rising sea levels. I do costumed supervillains staling jewels, men in beanies grabbing handbags - that sort of thing."

"But he had a mask and I thought he was a burglar."

Cat Burglar

"The numbers don't lie . . . but we do."

'You shouldn't knock them back so quickly.'

"'A body at rest'? -- Are you writing murder mysteries now, Isaac?"

Money laundering - shows money flowing out of US vault.

Bernard Madhoff $50-billion Ponzi financial scheme.

"I felt I could make more of a difference within the system."

"So, just to be clear: the 'voices inside your head' told you to launder the money from forfeited law enforcement seizures in exchange for federal tax breaks for your Uncle Mark in Costa Rica?"

"You're not grandma at all! In fact, I think this is a case of identity theft!"

'Any ideas on motive?' 'Only one, Chief.'

"Then leave the horses head in the Futon." Middle-class mafia

'They're very proud of me. I'm the first in my family to be convicted of a white-collar crime.'

"Don't make me send in the bad cat."

The evidence destroyed

'This could be me and you, your honor. Heading for Las Vegas!'

'I don't know officer: They all look alike to me...'

'During the break, my client stole my wallet.'

'Mark Antony addreses the mob'

"Damn it—I told them I was too well known for undercover work!"

The old good-cop, psycho-cop routine.

"Paper or plastic?"

Cosa Nostradamus: "Listen, you mook. I predict if you don't pay the vig to the Don by tonight you'll be at the bottom of the Hudson by morning."

Moses as a mobster.