swindle
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From her minimum security lockup, she’s begun mounting her own social media blitz in an apparent attempt to win Trump’s favor and get sprung from prison and freed from accountability for her epic swindle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2025
And while they concede that seniors may be more frequently targeted online than those younger, that, too, is based on a false assumption—that their age will make them easier to swindle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
In 2007, a Canadian judge ruled that Felderhof had been unaware of the swindle and found him not guilty of insider trading.
From BBC ● May 18, 2024
That fuelled speculation in Zambian media that some of the suspects might have sought to swindle gold buyers in a fake bullion scam.
From Reuters ● Aug. 30, 2023
A few of the spectators nudged each other with their elbows, obviously hoping I’d somehow swindle Ambrose into paying several times what my slot was actually worth.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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Americans are awash in scams, and while some swindles originate overseas, they are increasingly coming from closer to home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
But all of the theft, big and small, illustrates an epidemic of scams and swindles at a time America was grappling with overrun hospitals, school closures and shuttered businesses.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
This also speaks to the hollowness that all ideological language contains, to paraphrase Orwell, in its swindles and perversions, its slovenliness and vagueness.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2023
Draghi said it had not only spawned swindles but had also driven up costs because clients, knowing they would be reimbursed, had no need to bargain with builders over prices.
From Reuters ● Jun. 22, 2022
The contractors who furnish his prisoners sand for flour and garbage for potatoes are his partners in some of his outside swindles also.
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Abraham Cahan
But voters weren’t about to get swindled again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
“You’ve called Hilton unethical and dishonest and said that he swindled his way into the Republican side,” Collins said, citing an article from the Atlantic.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
A Philippine congressional committee rejected impeachment complaints against President Ferdinand Marcos on Wednesday over allegations he swindled taxpayers out of billions of dollars.
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
They wanted to be a voice for the pet owners swindled by Britton, most of whom are still too traumatised and guilt-ridden to speak out, as well as a visible symbol of the community’s horror.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2024
Kaz wasn’t a boy any longer; there was no reason Pekka should be able to see the child he’d swindled in his features.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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Timothy Barnes was not targeting strangers when he set about swindling people out of nearly £2m - these were his friends and neighbours.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
The company argued attorneys were swindling their own clients, inflating medical bills of car crash victims to increase the value of the settlement and then pocketing a hefty chunk of the payouts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
The 33-year-old fintech entrepreneur last month was sentenced to seven years in prison for swindling JPMorganChase, which purchased her student financial-aid startup in 2021 for $175 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025
By the time he was arrested at his Manhattan penthouse in 2008, he had been swindling customers for decades through his wealth management firm.
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2024
The only person they could ask about the painting was Valfierno himself, the person swindling them.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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