Yet one did not see him carrying on about the need to throw the book at a swindler who had ruined or unsettled thousands of lives.
The Sharp boathouse, at Dyckman Street and 10th Avenue, in Inwood, is in an area known as Swindler's Cove, a spot that once bustled with competitive rowing dating to the 1850s.
It's an undemanding broth of light comedy and even lighter romance, complete with a typical, Depression-era gibe at rich swindlers — department-store owners and other natural Reaganites — who take money from the pockets of ordinary citizens.
The front-page article declaring that Ponzi was insolvent and had used incoming deposits to pay off earlier investors proved instrumental in unmasking him as history's most infamous swindler — at least until Bernard L. Madoff came along.
MORAGA, Calif., Oct. 15 - A convicted swindler at the center of a fraudulent $112 million gift to a small Catholic college here hoodwinked college officials to the point that they arranged a papal blessing for him as a token of their appreciation.
By Morris Markey The New Yorker, May 30 , 1931P. 44 REPORTER AT LARGE about Jakey Factor, a swindler who gave up his barber trade and moved to England where he began a successful swindling career.
REPORTER AT LARGE about Jakey Factor, a swindler who gave up his barber trade and moved to England where he began a successful swindling career.
Ken Chan, a brand manager for the video game company Acclaim Games and a blogger at BrandedNewb.com, echoed Ms. Swindler's queries.
A private-public partnership, led by Bette Midler's New York Restoration Project, is building an educational center, butterfly garden, waterfront park and floating boathouse on Swindler Cove at the east end of Dyckman Street next to Public School 5.
The possibility that the swindler is at once unprincipled-getting his kicks from manipulating and deceiving others-and self-destructive tends not to be adequately considered.
