Those people, if not criminals themselves, make good cover for the actual swindlers at work among them.
Applying Morgenthau's methods to the Mafia was one thing; applying them to suspected white-collar swindlers at Merrill Lynch, the Marsh & McLennan insurance conglomerate and the mutual fund industry was something else altogether.
A private-public partnership, led by Bette Midler's New York Restoration Project, is building an educational center, butterfly garden, waterfront park and floating boathouse on Swindler Cove at the east end of Dyckman Street next to Public School 5.
The possibility that the swindler is at once unprincipled-getting his kicks from manipulating and deceiving others-and self-destructive tends not to be adequately considered.
As soon as decisions favorable to Mr. Taft began to be recorded, Mr. Cecil Lyon, the Third-Term leader of that State; Senator Borah, of Idaho; Mr. Flinn, of Pennsylvania, and others, began to shout, "Fraud!" "Swindlers!" etc., at the opposition.
The idea of the big-businessman as a Cain figure was basic to this genre, which had become popular in the Depression thirties, when many business giants of the twenties were revealed to be swindlers, or, at the very least, ruthless.
"The Swindlers" (Friday at 2, 4 30, 6 50 and 9 15 p.m). is a 1959 comedy starring Alberto Sordi as a con man working the suddenly prosperous port cities of Germany; "The Moment of Truth" (Wednesday at 4 30, 6 50 and 9 15 p.m). is the tale of a poor provincial boy who finds success in the bullrings of Spain, with a screenplay co-authored by the experimental filmmaker Pere Portabella.
But as Josie Swindler pointed out at the Fast Company magazine blog last week (blog.fastcompany.com), reasonable people can sometimes disagree on the definition of hustling.
Billie Cohen, the designer, created the flower plantings at Swindler Cove Park with the height of a child in mind, "in what was a dumping ground for garbage," Ms. Berner said.
