Children travel thousands of miles unaccompanied, hiding in train stations and surviving on wild fruit; men are beaten, jailed, and swindled just for the chance to make it on a boat that, if it doesn't capsize and kill them, will allow them to try their luck in other dangerous seas.
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.
The Clinton campaign, echoing Marco Rubio in the last throes of his candidacy, will undoubtedly seek to portray Trump as a con artist who bankrupted some of his companies, outsourced many of his products, and swindled his customers (for instance, at Trump University).
Conceding that the bailed-out banks are sitting on $2 trillion that they won't lend, Clinton offers not a word about mortgage relief for swindled homeowners.
on Friday slammed the Obama administration for imposing unnecessary roadblocks on allegedly defrauded for-profit college students eligible for debt cancellations, joining other prominent lawmakers and consumer groups urging Education Secretary Arne Duncan to stop prolonging distress for swindled student debtors.
Sid Kirchheimer, the "Scam Alert" columnist for the weekly AARP Bulletin online, offered a suggestion to make swindling harder for identity thieves.
Mr. Picard is hitting a deadline for filing lawsuits seeking to recover money for people swindled in Mr. Madoff's Ponzi scheme, which came crashing down two years ago today.
Rose has been trying to swindle us for years.
Of course, she quickly realized that she was mooning over a smooth-talking bigamist who swindles people for a living.
With public mobilization against this latest Wall Street swindle maybe for once our representatives in Washington will respond to the needs of the people over those of the plutocracy.
