In part, this:
The applicability of the principle of] dina de'malkhuta dina in our times, when there is no king but rather what is called democracy needs…
…further clarification. As I already explained the position cited in the name of Rivash quoting Rashba, one does not accept dina de'malkhuta dina except where the law originates with the king. But in a case where the law originates in courts, and the judges have discretion to rule as they think proper, or to invent new laws as they see proper, there is no dina d'malkhuta dina, as there is no law of the king ... This is even more true since we have here [in the United States] an institution called a "jury" where the government takes drunks from the market who have never studied law and who establish the law based on a majority vote. Indeed, even the government sometimes creates law and the Supreme Court contradicts it. Certainly in such a system there is no dina de'malkhuta dina according to Rivash and Rashba.
R. Menashe Klein, Mishnah Halakhot 6:277, as quoted on JLaw.com.
I think there are two ways of viewing this.
1. If Menashe HaKatan (Menashe "the Small" or "Humble, as Rabbi Klein is known) seriously believes this to be true at face value:
Isn't it nice to know a shoteh [fool; imbecile] is one of the leading haredi halakhic decisors of this generation?
2. If he's just finding a way to twist halakha to allow haredi criminals to steal yet still remain "haredim in good standing," so to speak – and at the same time allow Rabbi Klein's organizations to take money from these criminals without concern:
Isn't it nice to know that, if Rabbi Klein had been born a bit earlier, Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel would have had their very own rabbi?
Jlaw goes on to note that Rabbi Klein is a big fan of Omerta. No surprise there.
I believe Rabbi Klein refused to give his wife a get (religious bill of divorce) and instead culled together more than 100 signatures of other haredi rabbis, giving himself a heter mea rabbanim, a legal fiction that allows a man to take a second wife.
I mention this because the hat tip for this post goes to Chabad messianist and pelegish advocate Ariel Sokolovsky, who approvingly quotes Rabbi Klein here.