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
“It’s done. Buster said it out loud, and nearly every human in the system heard him say it. ‘Mercerism is a swindle.’
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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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
In addition, the researchers found that scammers were creating fake profiles on Facebook so they could run weight-loss-drug swindles there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2024
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
"Inflation swindles the bond investor ... it swindles the person who keeps their cash under their mattress, it swindles almost everybody," Buffett said.
From Reuters ● Apr. 30, 2022
Of course some of these projects were mere vulgar swindles.
From A History of the Four Georges, Volume I by Justin McCarthy
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 man has been charged in an investigation into Oasis fans being swindled out of thousands of pounds for fake tickets.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
The government warned about the dangers of crypto and broke up several huge scam operations, including one that allegedly swindled nearly $400 million from thousands of investors.
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026
I wonder who Eb, Riley, and Bill swindled.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Residents have been receiving troubling calls from people pretending to be their grandchildren, swindling them out of thousands of dollars.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 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
In August, a St. Louis man was convicted of swindling $200,000 from Kohl’s, according to the U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Missouri.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
The following year, however, Violet and her mother were found guilty of swindling Violet’s ex-lover and their widowed neighbour.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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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