Along the way, millions of dollars would be swindled from hapless investors and Belfort would consume enough drugs to, as he puts it, "sedate Guatemala".
Chávez grew up in Arizona, where the family home was swindled from them by the people Mexicans in the US call Anglos.
He, too, is now awaiting trial.Even the Ferrominera case pales beside the mountains of cash that may have been swindled from the government's foreign-exchange regulator, Cadivi.
The other federal court cases each involve several thousands of dollars reportedly swindled from a program under which the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation is using federal money to provide grants of up to $14,500 to encourage residents of Lower Manhattan to remain and others to move there.
May the paltry wage they're able to swindle from New York's guilt-ridden bourgeoisie keep them adequately soused until the morrow!" Asked if he would care to rephrase any of that, Mr. Randazzo added: "We don't have any deal with the city's homeless to sell our paper, which is distributed free throughout New York (as well as Chicago, Boulder, Madison, and Milwaukee).
He also managed to spend $850,000 swindled from his victims that a federal district court had ordered frozen.
On Main Streets across Texas, the quote of the year belongs to Rep. John Conyers: "What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?" Feeling swindled from the $787 billion stimulus bill, wary constituents are picking up the slack and reading the health care legislation themselves.
These additional funds likely won't be able to make up for all the money fraudsters swindled from residents.
And just more than a week ago, the Securities and Exchange Commission disclosed a complaint against a Reno securities trading firm in which $55 million was allegedly swindled from clients in 41 states.
You may have already heard about the lawsuit against Bernie Madoff's wife by a trustee which attempts to recover nearly $50 million of the funds Madoff swindled from investors in what many call the greatest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history.
