Sentence examples for swindled from from inspiring English sources

Along the way, millions of dollars would be swindled from hapless investors and Belfort would consume enough drugs to, as he puts it, "sedate Guatemala".

He, too, is now awaiting trial.Even the Ferrominera case pales beside the mountains of cash that may have been swindled from the government's foreign-exchange regulator, Cadivi.

Chávez grew up in Arizona, where the family home was swindled from them by the people Mexicans in the US call Anglos.

The other federal court cases each involve several thousands of dollars reportedly swindled from a program under which the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation is using federal money to provide grants of up to $14,500 to encourage residents of Lower Manhattan to remain and others to move there.

He also managed to spend $850,000 swindled from his victims that a federal district court had ordered frozen.

On Main Streets across Texas, the quote of the year belongs to Rep. John Conyers: "What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?" Feeling swindled from the $787 billion stimulus bill, wary constituents are picking up the slack and reading the health care legislation themselves.

The judge, John F. Grady of Federal District Court, pushed up the surrender date last week to prevent her from gambling away money that prosecutors hope to collect as restitution of part of $12 million she and six other defendants were convicted of swindling from the town.

May the paltry wage they're able to swindle from New York's guilt-ridden bourgeoisie keep them adequately soused until the morrow!" Asked if he would care to rephrase any of that, Mr. Randazzo added: "We don't have any deal with the city's homeless to sell our paper, which is distributed free throughout New York (as well as Chicago, Boulder, Madison, and Milwaukee).

Screenwriter Terence Winter has been though the awards game before for his many writing accolades for "The Sopranos" and "Boardwalk Empire," but his first Oscar nomination comes from adapting Jordan Belfort's first-person account of how he swindled millions from unsuspecting investors into a now-Oscar nominated movie.

This is a very valuable asset that was swindled away from me in an epic swindle.

Moscow claims Yuri Nikitin has swindled £250m from his country's shipping fleet.