swindling
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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
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
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
A Greek from the delta trading center of Nau- cratis, Cleomenes was an ambiguous Boss Tweed-like figure, chiefly remembered for swindling Egyptians and Greeks alike of enormous sums of money.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
