You start thinking about how much money you used to make as a crook.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni may not be a crook, but she is a fraud.
Al Gore says any scientist who disagrees with him on global warming is a kook, or a crook.
If the police kill a crook, she flies to the scene of the shoot-out to pose over the bleeding corpse.
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" Sixth-grade bullies, she says, have brought their 12-year-old daughter to tears with taunts about her dad being "a crook.
In other words, Enron went bankrupt because Mr Fastow was a crook, not because it was a house of cards.
Another idea: set up fraud alerts at the major credit reporting agencies, which can prevent a crook from creating any accounts in your name.
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Identity theft means that a crook obtains new bank accounts, credit cards, mobile phones, car leases, even apartment rentals in your name and without your knowledge.
"I am not a crook, " he said in 1973, clearly lying through his teeth as his government stood knee deep in the crooked dealings of the Watergate scandal.
Imagine taking a call you thought was from the police, your credit card company or bank when actually it's a crook trying to get information out of you.
Instead, I saw a thief and a crook, an ordinary fool who got caught and was now in prison trying to retain whatever dignity and connection he could find.
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And though there is no suspicion that Mr Zedillo is a crook as some of his predecessors were, his reforms have not gone to the heart of the system.
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But behind any good idea, there is a crook looking to make money, and that's exactly what has spurred smartphone scammers to spread a new Android fake anti-virus program.
Case in point is her participation in Wednesday's anti-democratic Kadima primary, which will elect the party's new leader to replace Olmert, who of course is both a fraud and a crook.
"Traditionally they've hired mostly lawyers who have no experience in trading or anything that would help them even discover that (Bernie) Madoff was a crook, " says Margaret Starner, Raymond James senior vice president.
But now, in the later innings of his life, he must rise to an unseemly challenge: to salvage his reputation and his fortune, Wilpon must prove that he was a dupe rather than a crook.
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Mr Seddon told the court he was the first out of the vehicle and used a crook lock to smash open a window before helping to free his father and nephew before firefighters arrived and rescued his mother.
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The man called him a "crook, " says a fellow grocery wholesaler who came to his defense.
Mileagegate seems to have the potential to become a significant crook in the road for these brands.
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"Tonight I was nervous, because I was feeling a bit crook, " he said.
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Guidelines aside, this is a bad time to be a corporate crook.
You may not help the government land a big crook they all seem to be enjoying their fat compensation packages in the Hamptons but you could give prosecutors a leg up on shutting down an ongoing scam.
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