Inflating and deflating assets is illegal?
Hm, for an expert on the "housing crisis" you don't seem very aware of what some of the mortgage fraud convictions were for, are you?
Hey, maybe it's because the houses the folks making liar loans on were actually not owned by them, because they were on the bank's books!
And I know it's not covered in a lot of airport books, but there's this thing called "tax fraud" where you knowingly underreport your income.
Look into it. You might learn something...