The prophet Micah condemned the crooks and politicians of his day for devising schemes to scam and rob the people. Micah 2:12 says, Woe to those who scheme iniquity, who work out evil on their beds! When morning comes, they do it, for it is in the power of their hands. They covet fields and then seize them, and houses, and take them away. They rob a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.