swindle

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

And Uber is helping investigators to try to catch whoever was behind the attempted swindle.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2024

"With so many people seeking properties online, scammers will look for opportunities to take advantage and swindle people out of their money," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2023

I quickly prayed that my master wouldn’t swindle the ogre and get himself yet another death warrant.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

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

Whipple then swindles the Pitkin family out of its last remaining asset, a cow.

From Salon ● May 17, 2025

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

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

He should increase his stock of curious swindles, tell bigger stories and more of them, humbug a hundred people where now he swindles one, and so make his business honest and respectable.

From Doesticks, What He Says by Q. K. Philander Doesticks

A New York woman admitted to defrauding Wesley Edens, a co-founder of Fortress Investment Group and co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, resolving allegations that she had extorted the billionaire and swindled two other men.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

“I would never use the word swindled, but the context — yes, I have said that,” Bianco said after some back-and-forth about the particulars of his criticisms.

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

Ms Vouzelaud, 38, then tried to explain to him that he had been swindled and the couple urged him to go to the police to file a complaint.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2025

Business associates, friends, and family eventually abandoned Guiteau when they discovered he had swindled them.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

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

He invoked a past prosperity, but his actual plans are to make a fortune by swindling the rest of us.

From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025

Eva Longoria stars as Gala, a woman who has to flee to the small Spanish town that her mother left decades ago in search of a future away from her swindling husband.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024

National Police chief Yasuhiro Tsuyuki, at a meeting Monday of top prefectural criminal investigators, said “tokuryu” have been part of surging cases of swindling via social media and have become a “serious concern.”

From Seattle Times ● May 17, 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