Sentence examples for swindler to from inspiring English sources

As a Sunni in this overwhelmingly Shia region, a former colonel in Saddam's army and a suspected swindler to boot, he was an odd choice to begin with.

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.

"But it is also our nation," he continued, "and we will never accept a lying swindler to say such things about our country".

With the help of the U.S. government, Chalabi was able to recast himself from an accused swindler to a charismatic political leader and a champion of liberal democratic values.

With Mr. Pryce (who replaces the admirable but uneasy John Lithgow) playing the silken swindler to Norbert Leo Butz's vulgar grifter, it's as if a mismatched entry in a three-legged race had become an Olympic figure-skating pair (2 35).

I sat down with Greg Walsh, co-founder of Martin Patrick 3 along with partner Dana Swindler, to discover the secret sauce that has made MP3 such a dynamic place to shop and an amazing brick-and-mortar retailer that has figured out how to win against the competition including internet disruptors like Amazon.

Lopez dates van Meegeren's initiation into The Hague's underworld of art swindlers to 1920, at the latest.

Law enforcement officials said the Internet had complicated the situation for them by making it easier for swindlers to quickly steal money and disappear into cyberspace.

Thinking about how people get fooled on April 1 is a good way to prepare for the year-round attempts by swindlers to bamboozle the naïve, the witless and those who just aren't paying close attention.

In fact as Ken Dornstein tells it in "Accidentally on Purpose: The Making of a Personal Injury Underworld in America" (Palgrave Macmillan, 1996), "banana-peeling" was so epidemic that railway employees worked tirelessly to find and bring these swindlers to justice.

But most of those involved seem content with spinning fabulous yarns that turn the tables on the perpetrators -- in rare cases, even to the point of getting swindlers to send them money.