Lack of resource has hanged many a person.

He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned

Little thieves are hanged by the neck and great thieves by the purse

The thief is sorry he is to be hanged, not that he is a thief

If you would be rich in a year, you may be hanged in six months

May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. English Proverb