Not all liars are criminal, but all criminals are liars.
Criminals who refuse to obey the law, will tend to lie to themselves about their illegitimate behavior. They will justify and rationalize their disobedience to legitimate authority by lies to themselves about their disobedience, and may further degenerate to lie to others about their disobedience.
For example:
"I am sorry these people had to lose their lives. But that's the nature of the beast. It's understood going in what the human toll will be."
-- Timothy McVeigh
All the criminal rationalizations in the world don't make a criminal an honest man, or a murderer a patriot.