The Martin Act, New York General Business Law article 23-A, sections 352-353, is a 1921 piece of legislation in New York that gives extraordinary powers and discretion to an attorney general fighting financial fraud. The act's powers exceed those given any regulator in any other U.S. state.
Famous quotes containing the words martin and/or act:
“Paul: You have a great body.
Kiki: Yes. Not a lot of scars.”
—Joseph Minion, U.S. screenwriter, and Martin Scorsese. Paul (Griffin Dunne)
“However great a man’s fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear- headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance—so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival.”
—Graham Greene (1904–1991)