Recalling that Ayn Rand has an agenda--hatred and denigration of religion, especially Christianity--helps put this in perspective.
Yes, "love of money," to the extent one is willing to lay aside principles and flout the law, is an abominable evil.
It's why we have organized crime, the depredation of legalized gambling, pornography, exploitation of children, slavery and a host of other of mankind's evils.
Ayn Rand was fundamentally and profoundly wrong: A man who is an island unto himself is a hollow shell, and ripe for demonhood.
But a man who knows how to husband resources and use them to further enlightened, righteous principles--principles not of his own making, but God's--is a giant among men.
I think what Ayn Rand was adressing was that its not money which creates evil, but man himself. If money is merely a tool for exchange, then its really the demand for those evils which creates the market for it (drugs,slavery,etc). If there was no demand for them, there would not be a market as well.
And those who love money would not try to cheat their way to get it. They would know that money only comes from their value to produce. It is those who detest money who will cheat and loot for it.
The criminals who do not work for their money and steal it for themselves, are no worse than the leftists who use the power of government to steal the money.
I could be wrong, this is just my interpretation of Ayn Rand thus far.
Hypocrite.