| So edifying was Mr. Nix's childhood brush with a swindler that he has spent years reading up on all variety of cheats and four-flushers. |
| In his closing statement, he said the trial had resembled a television series set up to depict him as a thief and swindler. |
| It doesn't matter if the state abetted the swindle by finding the swindler innocent in a fixed trial. |
| Mr Wei said that China needed to adopt democracy in order to modernise properly, and called Deng a dictator and a political swindler. |
| Yet, such a swindler, acting within the law, has in fact no moral respect for any law. |
| If he is a swindler, I certainly hope that sooner or later they expose him. |
