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swindle
noun as in cheating, stealing
verb as in cheat, steal
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Example Sentences
The former chief financial officer at Tom Girardi’s law firm agreed on Tuesday to plead guilty to federal fraud charges, acknowledging that he and Girardi worked side-by-side to swindle clients out of millions in settlement money.
The revelation came this week in the trial of Girardi, 84, who is defending against four counts of wire fraud and is accused of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to swindle his clients out of more than $15 million in settlement funds.
So far, crypto hasn’t advanced the cause of innovation other than giving drug lords and criminal gangs a new way to ply their trades and swindle their marks.
In 2007, a Canadian judge ruled that Felderhof had been unaware of the swindle and found him not guilty of insider trading.
I quickly prayed that my master wouldn’t swindle the ogre and get himself yet another death warrant.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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