If he couldn't swindle a ticket, he'd drive to Connecticut with friends.
After Mimi's death, Rodolfo vows that, in her memory, he will devote the rest of his life to organizing a gigantic uranium swindle.
This was a variation on the "unclaimed estate" swindle, in which a sucker is led to believe he stands to get a cut of a rich estate tied up in litigation if only he will contribute enough money to help straighten out the mess.
He is surrounded by the pompous burgher Orgon, whom he hopes to swindle, and by Orgon's cleverer extended family.
But there's no suggestion that he intended to swindle anyone.
Not so, however, as, with a dastardly flourish, Lewis had replaced her Italian For Lovers DVD with one he'd made earlier, spelling out how he'd swindled her good and proper.
"He was swindled and he described it as a setup".
The Securities and Exchange Commission failed the investors he supposedly swindled over many years.
But he was swindled out of much of it through some tax-avoidance scam involving containers.
He has swindled their friends & relatives as well as the publishers.
