Sentence examples for convicted of swindling from inspiring English sources

Allen Stanford is serving a 110-year term after being convicted of swindling investors of nearly a $7 billion.

Mr. Black and three other former executives from the media empire Hollinger International were convicted of swindling shareholders out of $6.1 million.

From the moment in 1999 when four men from this Hasidic village were convicted of swindling millions of dollars from the government, the campaign to protest the convictions, and perhaps win the men's early release from prison, was started.

In 2006, Natasha Marks, 20, was convicted of swindling more than $1 million from an 86-year-old man as a hate crime, including taking out a $550,000 mortgage on his house; a fugitive, she faces two to six years.

The judge, John F. Grady of Federal District Court, pushed up the surrender date last week to prevent her from gambling away money that prosecutors hope to collect as restitution of part of $12 million she and six other defendants were convicted of swindling from the town.

In 1981 he was acquitted of charges that he had perjured himself before the State Bar of Arizona about his knowledge of the crimes of a client who was convicted of an insurance swindle.

It was published in 1821 by William Playfair, a Scottish engineer, political economist and scoundrel: he was convicted of libel in England and swindling in France.

[C6.] Ex-I.R.S. Lawyer Convicted of Fraud Max C. Tanner, a former Internal Revenue Service lawyer who contended that he sincerely believed that he did not have to pay income taxes on the millions he made from a stock swindle, was convicted of tax evasion, securities fraud and 35 other federal charges.

The sentence of a Syracuse businessman who was convicted of one of the largest financial swindles in United States history was vacated yesterday by a federal appeals court because the sentencing judge had said the actions of the businessman's wife would determine how long he spent in jail.

Looking coldly at Patrick R. Bennett, a man convicted of one of the largest financial swindles in American history, Judge John S. Martin of United States District Court in Manhattan issued an extraordinary pronouncement yesterday: that Mr. Bennett's prison sentence will be either 20 years or 30 years, depending on whether or not his wife turns over their house and other property to creditors.

In 2003, she was convicted of theft and fraud for her role in a bank swindle in which A.N.C. stationery was used to obtain loans for nonexistent employees.