Xavier Thouvenin, a lawyer for one of the accused men, said the latest revelations suggested that Renault had fallen for a con artist who played on the company's fears.
Claude Martingale, a Frenchman working at a Dublin investment bank in the wake of the financial crisis, is this novel's titular "Void" and "Mark": his life being empty, he falls for a con by a writer (winkingly named Paul) with designs on the bank's capital.
Despite this, most people think they are too smart to fall for a con and believe that they could easily identify any attempt to deceive or defraud.
Salty O'Rourke (1945) returned Walsh to safer ground with a pleasant yarn about a racetrack con man (Alan Ladd) falling for a schoolteacher (Gail Russell).
I still ask myself how I, a magician with years of experience fooling people, almost fell for such a con.
"We're so desperate to make it in the globalized world that we'll fall for any con job.
They were a family without a kid, he was a kid without a family …" "I started to realise that I was falling for the con, and that this master manipulator was doing to me what he'd done to everyone he'd come into contact with.
And as Conner falls for a generic hottie (Kathy Uyen) — encouraged by pointless bursts of slow motion — and bonds with a cute kid, the film morphs into a facile face-off between family joy and financial gain.
He falls for a younger woman (Bennett) whose true romantic interest lies with a con man (Dan Duryea).
"If you fall for a scheme to cheat the I.R.S., you may lose your money to a con artist," she said.
