And when Pinocchio is swindled into joining a pack of party boys and is turned into a donkey, the scene in which he becomes a circus beast of burden borders on touching.
The recent documentary, Girl Model, featuring 13-year-old girls scouted in Siberia and sent to Japan where they're swindled into running up huge debts by agencies, isn't a particularly reassuring snapshot of the modelling world.
"They aren't giving people four-hour layovers anymore, so people don't feel like they've been swindled into owning a ticket they didn't want," Mr. Blodget said.
"These [people] are not only murdered, flogged, chained up like wild beasts, hunted far and wide and their dwellings burnt, their wives raped, their children dragged away to slavery and outrage, but are shamelessly swindled into the bargain.
I was 10 when my parents got swindled into getting Foxtel.
These quotes from Dems are why minority voters are starting to understand how they've been swindled into thinking that the Democratic Party best represents their interests.
As the building began to take shape, the investors realized they had been swindled into purchasing a four-story edifice that was only 40 feet tall, rather than the 480 feet structure they were expecting.
It's hard for us to understand how someone poor and uneducated can be swindled into voting for someone who has never understood poverty or the lack of access to education.
While the new owners of the campuses got the schools at a discount and Corinthian shed huge amounts of liability, former students who claim they were swindled into taking out federal loans to attend classes are stuck with their debts.
Unfortunately for the veterans and others who are being swindled into enrolling at predatory colleges even as you read this, and for the many more who will be swindled if the Trump-DeVos regime guts the gainful employment rule and other reforms, there is a way for DeVos to become secretary of education.
