swindling

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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

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 Canadian conman has been jailed for 10 years for swindling tens of millions of dollars from more than a million Americans by claiming to be a psychic.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 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