| The stock market boom was based to a considerable extent on speculative capital, parasitism, and outright swindling. |
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| Rather, the police should take swift and decisive action against such offenses as harboring criminals, dealing drugs and swindling people. |
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| The three tricksters sold the pills to drug users, swindling them out of 60 baht per pill and giving them a severe headache in the process. |
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| They also accused management of swindling public funds and victimising workers who had complained. |
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| This bizarre social phenomenon comes to light with the recent arrest of a con man for swindling around 100 million won from some 150 people. |
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| In 2001, a few newspapers carried stories on local securities firms swindling money from investors but soon all fell silent. |
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| He is also facing charges of embezzling a compensation fund for war victims and is being investigated for swindling a veterans' trust fund. |
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| Earlier today, the member for Saint-Léonard-Saint-Michel expressed concern about people swindling other people. |
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| If you look up the word bunco in the dictionary, you'll learn that it can be spelled bunco or bunko and that it means a swindling game or scheme. |
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| The False Claims Act was passed during the civil war, to stop contractors from swindling the Union army. |
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| Such incidents are not so surprising in a lucrative trade marred by thieving, swindling and espionage. |
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| Eurojust organised 15 coordination meetings concerning swindling and fraud. |
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| While these men were not above occasionally swindling other working-class people, for the most part their actions were directed at the region's elites. |
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| For example, if I find a way of legally swindling you out of a lot of money, I cannot claim that my action is morally acceptable just because it is legal. |
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| Put under investigation last March for swindling and forgery, the well known merchant Khaled Rouabah admitted having rejuvenated old wines with bottles of the same wines but of much more recent years. |
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| Furthermore, the Secretariat was informed that a Romanian organized criminal group had committed computer-related fraud and forgery and swindling against various citizens of other countries. |
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| China has taken to bullying and even swindling its suitors. |
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| See articleA judge in Houston decided that Sir Allen Stanford should remain in jail until the start of his trial for allegedly swindling investors. |
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| These are swindlers who know exactly who they are swindling and yet under the current law they could very well be sentenced to, guess what, a time out at home. |
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| The G20 leaders face the task of creating regulation which will prevent further speculative banks from emerging and, to put it bluntly, swindling millions of customers of financial institutions all over the world. |
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| There are cases of victims experiencing even more hardship in the aftermath of disasters because of deceit and swindling by criminals offering fraudulent reconstruction assistance. |
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