When Kovacs and his colleagues discover that Shaw has swindled them, they plan their revenge.
More than a year ago, my father was pretty much swindled by a broker.
This leads to surprisingly high charges on a credit card bill, not to mention anger over being swindled.
That will help stem the widespread problem of investors getting swindled and losing a majority of their net worth.
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Incredibly, the one-time poster-boy became involved with gangsters, was swindled out of money, bankrupted and arrested for attempted murder.
And we are invited to look even further ahead: these, after all, are the reproving voices of our swindled children.
Older Americans are afraid, that after a lifetime of work and savings, that they were swindled by somebody they trusted.
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Just before he confessed to the double murders in January 2009, he realised he had been swindled after travelling to Manila.
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That means that investors can sue their advisers when they are swindled.
Bernard Madoff swindled a long list of investors out of billions of dollars and is serving a 150-year prison term in North Carolina.
The list of investors who say they were swindled by the famed money manager includes big financial institutions, among them the Royal Bank of Scotland.
The Trading Standards Institute, which highlighted the problem, said that it was a "massive scam", but it was impossible to know how much money had been swindled.
While some lottery winners live the good life, others go broke because they're not used to the wealth, they're swindled or they're hassled for a part of the money.
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As more public pensions falter and fail, forensic investigations will reveal just how badly government workers who contribute to pensions and the taxpayers who backstop these pensions have been swindled.
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Some of his victims included his three bodyguards who sources say had been unpaid for months and taxi owners whom he allegedly swindled in the false pretense that he would buy them new cabs.
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Of course, no one likes to be swindled.
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In his sentencing memorandum he said that even though he was the Chief Compliance Officer of Madoff Securities and held other positions for decades, he was swindled by his elder brother, having no idea that he was sitting on top of a Ponzi scheme.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) Jamaican officials said Thursday that they are hopeful new legislation will finally result in a stream of convictions and lengthy sentences for fraudsters behind a multimillion-dollar lottery scam that has swindled mostly elderly Americans out of their retirement savings for years.
Then, accompanied by his cook and his maid, he stood in long lines, like many other inhabitants of Buenos Aires, and entered into long conversations with strangers (who struck him as utterly charming) in streets thronged with people swindled by the government or the banks, or whomever.
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