Sentence examples for swindled them from inspiring English sources

When Kovacs and his colleagues discover that Shaw has swindled them, they plan their revenge.

The bankers who swindled them should be facing 150-year sentences along with Madoff, instead of gliding on taxpayer-financed golden parachutes.

Kock announced himself as "governor" of the colony, presented the passengers with contracts binding them to labor upon arrival, and either forced or swindled them into exchanging their money and valuables for a bizarre paper currency of his own design.

The lawsuits flew hot and heavy in Chicago, where the big artists associated with Chess Records filed nasty claims charging that the publishing firm owned partly by the Chess brothers had swindled them.

A few former clients complained he had swindled them, and after unification in 1990 German prosecutors agreed, asserting that his law practice had been just a Communist secret-police scam to press his fellow citizens to give up their houses and property at fire-sale prices in exchange for permission to leave East Germany.

The Bee Gees' 1979 album, "Spirits Having Flown," produced three more No. 1 singles, "Too Much Heaven," "Tragedy" and "Love You Inside Out". Then, in 1980, the band filed a $200 million lawsuit against Mr. Stigwood, saying he had swindled them out of royalties.

You may shun scoundrels but not swindle them.

When she responded truthfully, some women acted as if she were out to swindle them.

"You'd think people would be grateful but people are not grateful," said Mayo. "If they don't see instant results they think the government is swindling them.

The Indians had named him "town taker," not because of his military prowess, but because he had manipulated the law to swindle them out of their land.

During the last fiscal year, the Police Department received 35 complaints from victims who suspected that scam artists were trying to swindle them or use their properties for fraud, Milligan said.