Sentence examples for he was swindled from inspiring English sources

"He was swindled and he described it as a setup".

But he was swindled out of much of it through some tax-avoidance scam involving containers.

He was swindled and duped; he set up in business and saw it collapse around his ears.

Simon Stone's expertly calculated drama The Daughter was another ripper; he was swindled out of a nomination for best director.

There is considerable evidence that he was swindled, and unfairly pushed into bankruptcy, by the now defunct state-owned bank Crédit Lyonnais in 1993-1994.

He finally resigned and went back to Croatia, where he was swindled out of his savings; he came back to work as a butler again.

No sooner has Macário returned, flush with cash and ready to marry Luisa, who has waited for him, than he is swindled by a friend and must return to the islands to replenish his nest egg.

By the time he is swindled in a game of three-card monte, Edmond has become a cartoon: the squarest, most naïve city slicker ever to affect a gloss of urbanity.

(An automobile motif runs through the film, right down to a cool-hand Mr. Newman as he steers a vintage GTO in reverse through a police roadblock with a second Cars song on the soundtrack.) Carol eventually talks Henry into one last theft after he is swindled out of the loot from an earlier job.

Ms. Cates, the mother of the actress Phoebe Cates, also said she was swindled of $5 million.

This week, claiming he too was swindled, Greenberg sued in federal court, charging the AIG execs who forced him out with "gross, wanton or willful fraud or other morally culpable conduct," over the credit default swap portfolio that was part of his settlement.