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swindler

swin duh ler

  • n  a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud

  • Madoff, the "sophisticated swindler," couldn't have agreed more.
  • Henri Rochette was another swindler to hold his own.
  • Ponzi Schemes--in which a swindler touts outsize returns, parries questions about legitimacy with hefty dividends and creates the illusion of solvency by paying off early investors .
News & Articles

  • Astor swindler Anthony Marshall’s jurors defend guilty verdict in wake of challenge
    Toss the swindler in the clink! Anthony Marshall jurors who have been accused by a fellow panelist of using dubious reasoning and falling sway to their emotions in convicting Brooke Astor’s son of a multimillion-dollar swindle defended their 2009 guilty vote on the eve of his incarceration. “He was...
    June 20, 2013 - New York Post
  • Swindler must pay or face jail
    Swindler must pay or face jail Times Union Copyright 2013 Times Union. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 11:41 am, Monday, June 17, 2013 EAST GREENBUSH — An accountant admitted Monday he swindled Curtis Printing out of more than $100,000 by taking checks pre-signed by a trusting business owner and cashing them to pay his own ...
    June 17, 2013 - Albany Times Union
  • Imprisoned swindler claims "shake-down" by Swallow, Shurtleff
    Attorneys for imprisoned swindler Marc Sessions Jenson filed documents Saturday afternoon claiming he is a victim of a "shake-down" by embattled Attorney General John Swallow and his predecessor, Mark Shurtleff.
    June 16, 2013 - KSL Salt Lake City
Quotes

  • Abdoulaye Wade in AFP
    I'm not saying there is no corruption here, there is corruption everywhere ...... You have a swindler who stole more than the budgets of all African states combined,Wade said in an obvious reference to Wall Street conman Bernard Madoff....
  • Rakhat Aliyev in Interfax Russia
    He was found guilty - albeit partly on testimony that an admitted swindler gave in exchange for a lighter sentence - of mail fraud and obstruction of justice. From what I know of the circumstances, I would have voted to acquit. We live, however,... Seth Lipsky http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Lipsky&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG6VaGyC4H7lUA0HLe0Zl9SWhBIGg Times Online http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3479492.ece&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNF1_fGs-pTELHQ4jajpXcu53LA5Hw Mar 3, 2008 97288 128982 swindler This absurd case has been fabricated by the interior minister. They accuse me of kidnapping a swindler who is on the international wanted list," Aliyev said in an interview with the Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper published on Friday.

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