Joe Devlin and Lt. Columbo in “Unfinished Business”

Do you know these lines, Lieutenant? They're by Lewis Carroll. "You can charge me with murder or want of sense. We are all of us weak at times. But the slightest approach to a false pretense was never among my crimes."

Lt. Columbo

Well, sir, you pretended to raise money to help the Irish victims and all the while you were planning to make more victims. Wasn't that a pretense, sir?

Politics makes liars of us all, Lieutenant.