Then, accompanied by his cook and his maid, he stood in long lines, like many other inhabitants of Buenos Aires, and entered into long conversations with strangers (who struck him as utterly charming) in streets thronged with people swindled by the government or the banks, or whomever.
The governor also proposed tightening regulations for home repair contractors, some of whom have swindled elderly homeowners with shoddy workmanship.
That said, I have also met far too many widows swindled by financial "advisors" who swoop in with unparalleled speed to "help".
Deborah Cadbury says that she invested with a conman who swindled her and disappeared with the money, but Shelley Emling writes that it is not clear whether the man ran off with the money or whether he died suddenly leaving Anning with no way to recover the investment.
The concluding play on the bill, it portrays a Swedish sailor (Mr. McElver), who is swindled by a bartender (Mr. Fletcher) in league with a prostitute (Kaneza Schaal).
The small-business landscape in China is littered with stories of customers who have felt swindled by investors who have fled the scene.
Swindled, by Bee Wilson (Princeton; $26.95).
I was lied to on a regular basis, cheated on with hookers, swindled, ignored and even date-raped.
Or for the many other acts of double-dealing that left one out of three American homeowners owing much more than their houses were worth while the folks who swindled them were rewarded with hundreds of billions in public money?
10 P.M. (AMC) HUSTLE -- Mickey Stone Adrian Lesterr) and his team of con men have fleeced divorcées, swindled an art gallery owner (with a fake Mondrian), forged a valuable comic book and cheated a corrupt Nigerian billionaire.
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