Top 108 Quotes & Sayings by Eric Schneiderman
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I don't think it's any secret that the public has lost confidence in the state government, and there's a lot of work that needs to be done on issues related to public integrity.
I'm going to go after crime and corruption wherever it is. But I did focus particularly on the need to restore public confidence in essential institutions of both the public and private sector.
Anyone who believes in the essential role government can play in improving people's lives must also be the toughest critics of those who abuse the public trust.
There's nothing wrong with advocating for your own company.
Trump University had neither a license nor a charter from New York State certifying it as an institution of higher education.
Daily fantasy sports is much closer to online poker than it is to traditional fantasy sports.
Obviously, Nevada doesn't prohibit all forms of gambling, but you have to submit yourself to a very rigorous regulatory process to run a gambling operation in Nevada.
Once they are charged, too many poor New Yorkers find themselves trapped by our unjust bail system. Unable to pay for bail, they languish in Rikers Island or other jails while they await trial, regardless of guilt.
Our investigation has found that, unlike traditional fantasy sports, daily fantasy sports companies are engaged in illegal gambling under New York law, causing the same kinds of social and economic harms as other forms of illegal gambling and misleading New York consumers.
We're going after the possibilities of tax fraud, insurance fraud, securities fraud. We're going to look at this stuff very closely. We have the jurisdiction, we have the resources, and we have the will.
I have three very simple principles. I don't like conflicts of interest; they should be eliminated or disclosed. I believe in transparency, that people have to really not just know but understand what they're buying and selling. And that you have to have enough capital to back up your promises.
The Supreme Court should follow settled precedent and allow states like New York to manage our own labor relations to achieve labor peace and government efficiency and to continue our long tradition of support for workers.
Prosecutors are all used to persons who commit fraud making wild accusations when they're caught.
Morally bankrupt wage practices and laws cannot hold.
The right to organize is a fundamental right for American workers.
I don't like conflicts of interest; they should be eliminated or disclosed. I believe in transparency: that people have to really not just know but understand what they're buying and selling.
High-frequency traders are firms all around the world. They're massive investments.
You can't have some institutions that are protected by the law, not allowed to fail, and not held to account, and all the other companies in America are allowed to fail. You can't have equal justice under law and too big to fail.
When someone makes a claim against the state, that person must legally verify that the facts in the claim are true.
Equal justice means that there is not one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else.
You're not allowed to lure people into spending their money or betting their money based on false representations.
I am not in the entertainment business; I am in the justice business.
People plead guilty or admit to crimes they didn't commit for various reasons. Certain interrogation procedures produce high rates of false confessions.
My job is to enforce the law, without fear or favor.
By cracking down on wage theft, we can make sure workers and taxpayers are not getting ripped off by crooked employers.
Games of chance often involve some amount of skill; this does not make them legal. Good poker players often beat novices. But poker is still gambling, and running a poker room - or online casino - is illegal in New York.
My actual statement during the campaign was I want to be the sheriff of Wall Street, Albany and Main Street. I'm going to go after crime and corruption, wherever it is.
Our elected representatives wisely enacted laws to protect our state and local governments from undue outside influence.
Daily fantasy sports is neither victimless nor harmless, and it is clear that DraftKings and FanDuel are the leaders of a massive, multi-billion-dollar scheme intended to evade the law and fleece sports fans across the country.
A statute that lets some wrongfully convicted individuals seek restitution but denies that right to others is an unjust and unequal application of the law.
We can prevent unfair advantage, and we can avoid the destabilizing effect that high frequency trading can have.
Ninety-five percent of the work in the attorney general's office is civil litigation and regulatory work, and I think I certainly have a lot more experience in that than most of the folks who have served in the office.
The president and I had much more important stuff to talk about than Donald Trump. I've never discussed Mr. Trump with the president of the United States.
We're very interested in seeing what science Exxon has been using for its own purposes because they're tremendously active in offshore oil drilling in the Arctic, for example, where global warming is happening at a much more rapid rate than in more temperate zones.
Prosecutors are all used to people who commit fraud making wild accusations when they're caught.
Lawmakers zealously guard their prerogatives, and as much as some might oppose a minimum-wage increase, they will not want to see the issue taken out of their hands.
I'm very interested in the more grass-roots consequences of the economic meltdown: issues related to mortgage foreclosures, debt collection, and the practices of credit card companies and others who hold a lot of consumer debt.
Fraud is fraud. And consumers of any product - whether you want to buy a car, participate in fantasy football - our laws are very strong in New York and other states that you can't commit fraud.
Organizing gives workers the power to lift themselves out of poverty and build a better future.
We've got to do more to ensure that people who work full time are not living in poverty and that the massive gap between rich and poor - which is fundamentally un-American, as far as I'm concerned - is somehow dealt with.
We must use every tool at our disposal to lift the living standards of low-wage employees.
Just as we demand that people take responsibility for their actions, we as a society must take responsibility for fighting injustice.
The secret's out: New York's Labor Law provides the power to help low-wage workers earn enough to meet their basic needs.
Gambling is entertainment. People go to casinos to be entertained.
Abandoned homes become magnets for vandalism and crime. They drag down the property values of neighboring homes.
After the 1970s, when President Nixon's illegal campaign cash was used as a secret slush fund to pay for the Watergate burglary and cover-up, Americans have demanded to know where the money fueling our elections is coming from.
In New York, we have laws against defrauding the public, defrauding consumers, defrauding shareholders.
The credit reporting system suffers from inaccuracy and often from outright injustice.
Unlike most traditional, season-long fantasy sports sites, which make most of their money from administrative fees and advertising, FanDuel and DraftKings take a cut of every bet. That is what bookies do, and it is illegal in New York.
Our review concludes that DraftKings'/FanDuel's operations constitute illegal gambling under New York law.
There are few people who exemplify the ideals of opportunity, entrepreneurship and commitment to the collective good than the great New Yorker and the face of the $10 bill, Alexander Hamilton.
History teaches that the overwhelming majority of elected officials follow movement builders outside government when it comes to the new and risky... Once you recognize it, demand it and reward it, it will happen.
The 2006 federal Internet gaming statute is not ambiguous. It does not prohibit gambling on fantasy sports.
You wanna know people are held accountable if they engage in misconduct and that no one is above the law.
A staunch abolitionist, Hamilton was one of the founding members of the New York Manumission Society. He was a trustee and namesake of Hamilton-Oneida Academy, an upstate New York school dedicated to educating Native-American boys.
Every day, in every city and town across the country, police officers are performing vital services that help make their communities safer.
The memory of the 146 people who lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire stands as a reminder that legal protections and workplace safety standards were won through a long struggle for social justice and at great human cost.
If the Treasury Department should not remove Hamilton from the $10 bill, what should they do? The answer is fairly simple: Replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.
High-frequency traders are firms all around the world. They're massive investments. And there is an incredible race for speed now. People are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to shave milliseconds off.
Unions go hand-in-hand with a strong middle class.
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