Sentence examples for financial swindling from inspiring English sources

Over the last decade, Mr. Roxford boasted about a career in financial swindling, telling The San Francisco Chronicle in 1995 that it had gotten him out of bankruptcy.

Over the past decade, he boasted about a career in financial swindling, telling The San Francisco Chronicle in 1995 that it got him out of bankruptcy.

The budget deficit conspiracy may sound far-fetched, but residents of Shenyang were already wary of financial swindles.

There are tales of financial swindles in Italian merchant cities, not unlike the shenanigans at Enron in modern-day Houston.

Now, two federal agencies are promoting an educational program aimed at helping older adults safeguard their money and personal information as well as recognize possible financial swindles.

Even the occasional financial swindle in the news is regarded, at least by those who are not prosecutors, as more cultural quirk than grave crime.

Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty today to charges he orchestrated the biggest financial swindle in Wall Street history, cheating investors out of billions of dollars in a fraud that shocked the public and drew demands for stricter regulations.

He was best known for operating history's largest Ponzi scheme, a financial swindle in which early investors are repaid with money acquired from later investors rather than from actual investment income.

Bernard Madoff's elder son, who took his own life in his New York apartment at the weekend, had been driven to despair by the stain of his father's financial swindles and by the battering of lawsuits against him, the latest of which was filed in London last Thursday, friends and associates said yesterday.

While the prospect of a deal has been welcomed by municipal leaders as a way to reinvigorate struggling communities, it has fed fears of a fresh financial swindle, like those that often accompanied large-scale privatization deals in the years immediately after Communism's collapse.

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.