But be careful of swindlers on the Internet!
Joseph Gurwin, who at 16 came to America in 1936 with $100 in his pocket, made a fortune and gave much of it away — then fell victim to Bernard L. Madoff, the convicted swindler — died on Thursday in Manhattan.
Decades later, it reconstituted as the National Better Business Bureau to take on swindlers and con artists.
Colombia sent its best-known financial swindler to the United States on Tuesday to face charges that he laundered millions of dollars of cocaine proceeds.
swindler of landlords, haberdashers and railway companies.
Why not send this imaginary brother across the Atlantic to the "rank-grown forests" (as Keats wrote in a later poem) of America, Kentucky, say, and invent encounters with luminous figures like John James Audubon and giant catfish and backwoods swindlers living on "bear sandwiches greased with bear fat"?
We are taught from an early age that those who live "out East" are selfish swindlers intent on fucking over the rest of the country, and many people are still mad about policies that privileged Central Canadian elites over the Western provinces going as far back as John A. Macdonald's first government.
It would be easy to call Shah an imposter, a swindler playing tricks on the gullible.
A trailer, carrying rowing shells, parked near the magnificent gate of the Peter Jay Sharp Boathouse, in Swindler Cove Park, on the Harlem River.
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.
