Is There Honor Among Thieves?

What is it that keeps a gang of criminals from stealing from each other? There's usually some kind of code of honor amongst thieves and other lowlife criminals, usually punishable by death. But besides that, most criminals know better than to trust each other because they know that if the shoe was on the other foot and they had the opportunity to steal from somebody who trusted them and there was the possibility of getting away with it, they'd do it in a heartbeat. Apparently, leaders of the largest white collar crime ring in the country aren't smart enough to figure out that the kind of people who help plunder our national treasury for their corporate cronies wouldn't think twice about robbing from each other. And that is how the National Republican Congressional Committee lost upwards of a million dollars to their former treasurer! That's a million they could have otherwise wasted in their futile attempt to gain any house seats this election.