Sentence examples for for a swindle from inspiring English sources

Mr. Madoff got a mere 150 years for a swindle put at $65 billion.

In the mid-1990s, Mr. Dotcom received a suspended two-year sentence for a swindle that made use of stolen phone card numbers.

One victim, a Honduran man kidnapped in Nuevo Laredo at the Texas border, told investigators that he was close to reaching the United States when he fell for a swindle.

Is Groupon a great, lucrative deal for its merchants, a swindle or something even worse?

Leonardo DiCaprio will get his shot at best actor in a comedy or musical for his turn as a swindling stockbroker in Martin Scorsese's tale of American greed, "The Wolf of Wall Street".

As Danny Dorling's landmark critique of our property delirium All That Is Solid makes clear, we have fallen for a giant Ponzi swindle.

He also reportedly served a six-month sentence in Switzerland for a similar sexual swindle.

"And her white belly is a shrine for swindle and delusion".

Lehman charges that Marubeni staff members were responsible for the swindle, which a source with direct knowledge of the matter said involved forged documents and an impostor at Marubeni's offices.

The 39-year-old son of former President Suharto, Tommy was in hiding after being sentenced by the Supreme Court to 18 months in prison for an $11 million land swindle involving a supermarket chain he owned.

Last summer, Chinese state television reported that a man was sentenced by a Beijing court to two and a half years in jail for swindling a woman he allegedly met on the site.