It will always be suspicious to use concealment from his colleagues and coördinates in office; but when, in a money transaction, any man uses concealment with regard to them to whom the money belongs, he is guilty of a fraud.
Burke warns against the dangers of concealment in financial transactions, equating it to fraud.
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