No startup should be unknowingly swindled out of their money.
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Apparently there's no spell to protect yourself from getting swindled.
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Supporters such as business owner Humano say they feel swindled.
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You aren't being swindled and it's certainly not a scam.
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Now it doesn't look that way, and he feels swindled.
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Had someone he swindled hired an assassin to kill him?
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I was ten when my parents got swindled into getting Foxtel.
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The embassy did not say how many fans had been swindled.
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Still we shouldn't let ourselves be swindled of our capacity for empathy.
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Check your Fitbits, because you might have been swindled out of steps.
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Anna Sorokin swindled New York's elite while pretending to be an heiress.
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To prevent getting swindled, the best idea is to take your time.
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You don't even have to buy into sovereign dogma to get swindled.
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But there's also a trend of feeling swindled by the IRL influencers.
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Some cryptocurrencies amount to Ponzi schemes, and unscrupulous ICO operators have swindled investors.
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The circumstances surrounding them suggest that claims of customers being swindled are exaggerated.
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Ultimately, what really happened, and who swindled whom, doesn't matter to his family.
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The reason: The show swindled its fans at the end of last season.
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She told him they were maids who had been swindled by an employer.
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Corcoran said last week that a phishing scam swindled her out of $388,700.
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Or you could just be phished or otherwise swindled out of your digital funds.
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But often that money comes from swindled investors, and sometimes the losses are massive.
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Once I'm done I start the Herbalife Swindled podcast and knock out some work.
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Last year, domme Abbie Nooday wrote guides to help both parties avoid getting swindled.
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But they are swindled by a lawyer and a bank manager and lose everything.
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I got greedy and thought I'd swindle someone how my friend had swindled me.
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The reason for that is Jeff Jarrett swindled Vince McMahon out of money. Maybe.
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I've always kind of enjoyed being swindled, or letting people try to do it.
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That complexity also makes it difficult to sort out if workers are getting swindled.
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Your best bet against getting swindled is a restaurant, chef and/or fishmonger you trust.
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Sure I have Tourette's, but I think I may have swindled God in the exchange.
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Let business take care of making sure consumers aren't swindled while managing their personal finances.
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He has furthermore swindled many people in Belgium for sums amounting to another million francs.
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She is facing charges of grand larceny and theft of services following allegations she swindled $275,000.
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He was and still is a lawyer, and he repaid his employer, whom he also swindled.
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If you come in and know nothing, there's a good chance you're going to get swindled.
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On the way he is swindled, propositioned and occasionally helped by an array of oddball characters.
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Unfortunately, countless millions of dollars were swindled and never recovered, and over time, the oil was depleted.
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One family in New Brunswick was swindled out of $53, according to a report from The Province.
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The Obama administration claimed the fiduciary rule protects workers from being swindled out of their retirement savings.
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Prince charged that Chornomud not only swindled him out of $500,000 but was in the country illegally.
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In the end, Ponzi swindled more than $15 million in 1920, the equivalent of $191 million today.
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Jerry Jacobson swindled more than $24 million out of a major fast food promotion over 12 years.
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He is awaiting trial accused of leading a customs racket that swindled millions from the country's coffers.
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They felt abandoned by the new information economy, swindled by Washington politicians, stifled by the new cultural orthodoxy.
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A year later, Urquhart straight up sued her son, alleging he had swindled her out of her money.
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It turns out the foreign pair were swindled, and Vale begrudgingly demonstrates empathy by allowing them to stay.
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Getting swindled by playing three-card monte was once a common occurrence for tourists in New York City.
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One of the three pending criminal cases against Avenatti involves charges he swindled Daniels out of nearly $300,000.
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In the end, Ponzi swindled more than $15 million in 1920, the equivalent of about $190 million today.
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Styles ___ Officials say the country's tax agency was swindled by a London-born financier who moved to Dubai.
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Older people are at risk of being swindled not only by strangers, but also by people they know.
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And planting the idea that Trump has swindled hard-working Americans could be very damaging—perhaps even more so
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Now those celebrities have drawn the ire of festival attendees who feel swindled by the so-called "influencer" promotion.
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Two phony cancer charities that swindled donors out of more than $75 million will be dissolved, officials said Wednesday.
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The FCA had failed to take effective action to stop pensioners being swindled out of their money, he said.
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A CNBC investigation last month revealed that more than 1,000 investors were swindled by an ICO project called Giza.
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All told, the semi-cult leader has swindled his parents out of their savings and quite a bit more.
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An obituary in The Buffalo Express said she had been swindled by "unscrupulous managers" during post-plunge publicity tours.
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A "Mark," noun, is someone who is easily knocked around or swindled, idiomatically, like a "patsy" or a PIGEON.
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Probably because as Lopez's Ramona jokes in the movie, men don't like everyone knowing they've been swindled by women.
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"The realtors that swindled him into selling his house quickly also caused the IRS to come after him," they claim.
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You should probably hold off on that Microsoft Surface purchase you're thinking about, and hopefully you haven't already been swindled.
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Johnny Depp is claiming he was swindled out of nearly $0003 million by a top Hollywood lawyer and his firm.
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The latter two countries had swindled their way into a favourable draw by exploiting the ridiculousness of FIFA's ranking methodology.
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Many banks are on the brink of insolvency, in part because of pyramid schemes that swindled millions of poor Iranians.
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The only thing the Browns have to lose here is their time if they get swindled from the get go.
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Travis Scott got swindled out of $70k on a Lambo that never actually existed ... this according to a new lawsuit.
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Police allege that Stevenson, whose psychic name as Madeena, swindled over $60,000 [$45,757 USD] out of one of her clients.
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They say they were swindled out of $24 million by agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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Mr. Trump has pointed to America's trade deficit with Mexico as a sign that the United States is being swindled.
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Last time they rallied around a half-loaf health plan because of the promise of the public option, they got swindled.
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Source: Kurtis Productions Timothy Dennin speaks to American Greed about the many ways Mark Hotton swindled his clients over the years.
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Concluding they'd been swindled, IFC officials traveled to the eastern city of Hangzhou in late 2009 to confront Zhejiang Glass's chairman.
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I was a student at the now-infamous Trump University, and Trump swindled me and thousands of other people like me.
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When elected officials shirk their duty of oversight but continue to spend money, taxpayers end up getting swindled by special interests.
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Like so many Americans, she thought Mr. Trump could improve her economic future, but he swindled her and thousands of others.
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By the time she turned 15, Guerrero had seen her dad swindled by a fraudulent immigration attorney and her brother deported.
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When Richie is swindled out of his money, he travels to Costa Rica to confront his adversary Ivan Block (Ben Affleck).
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"Look, this is incompetence, they got swindled and he admits 'If I had known, I wouldn't have done this,'" Krauthammer added.
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So far, five Indian banks have been swindled in the scandal, four of them government-owned, the authorities in New Delhi say.
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The bottom line: Shady businesses have always swindled people, even before they were able to easily create fake profiles, events and ads.
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During the Boxer rebellion in China he swindled a captive mandarin to gain control of mines there (an action later judicially overturned).
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It said the people had swindled over 60 patients and raked in tens of thousands of dollars in profit through the scheme.
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Every city has a certain area or neighborhood where inexperienced tourists get swindled, and the ways to cheat are many and varied.
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The pitch was enough to convince even Mr. Rosen, who had been swindled before in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, to invest.
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"It seems every day we are being swindled with something," she wrote on China's the Sina Weibo site, using the handle "Sunziyue".
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First, Trump thinks that America runs trade deficits with countries like China and Germany because the US is being swindled by them.
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Another, a 218-hour-a-week floor-layer swindled by his boss, was failed by the authorities and ended up at food banks.
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He made the news last year for having swindled a customer—instead of 250 grams of cuberdons, he'd only given them 180 grams.
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Mining promoters salted barren claims with diamonds or gold nuggets, then made small fortunes on mines that never produced, leaving their stockholders swindled.
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NEW YORK An entry in the Metropolitan Diary on Monday about being swindled in New York misspelled the given name of the author.
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Heartland tells the story of a family that lost everything to greedy bankers who swindled their livelihoods and walked away without recrimination. 8.
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Tobacco farmers who say they were swindled out of $24 million filed a lawsuit that has been kept nearly entirely sealed for years.
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But last week, while waiting for a new passport photo at CVS, an eager salesperson swindled him into throwing on a blood pressure cuff.
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Though they do all they can to assist swindled travelers, their reputation suffers as these stories are shared online or by word of mouth.
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Regret about leaving his father behind, disillusion over being swindled by another migrant, bitterness over his new improvisatory existence — such emotions take their toll.
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Ben Carlson, director of institutional asset management at $1.2 billion Ritholtz Wealth Management, is tired of seeing investors get swindled by clever sales techniques.
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But when her grandmother reluctantly admitted five years ago that she had been swindled out of her life savings, Ms. Lecoq sprang into action.
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Would-be buyers have been swindled out of more than $54 million as of December 2017, according to the FBI&aposs Internet Crime Complaint Center.
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In 1980, Mr. Stigwood suffered another setback when the Bee Gees sued him for $200 million, saying that he had swindled them out of royalties.
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The decadeslong scam conducted while he headed Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities in New York City swindled thousands of investors out of billions of dollars.
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But the Reddit people are very nice to me and I am glad they like Ken M. Have you ever swindled someone and felt bad?
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I was convinced that I had somehow swindled my way into the situation—that I was an impostor, a cheat—but never admitted to it.
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Nevertheless, he has embraced the challenge and become the go-to person for American investors who are suing Chinese companies saying that they were swindled.
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Those arrested are charged with a variety of health care fraud schemes, mostly related to Medicare, that swindled the government out of about $85033 billion.
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According to the president, the liberal world order is a con job — he insists America is paying too much and being swindled by its friends.
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Anyone who got swindled by an outfit best known as Click4Support should get a check from the government as part of a $1.7 million settlement.
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"A dual national holding Iranian and American citizenship has been arrested recently, who had swindled many Iranians, taking (money) ... to fix their residence," Mohseni Ejei said.
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Basically, Delvey, who was rarely seen without her oversized Celine glasses, successfully swindled some of the poshest New York City establishments by pretending to be rich.
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He introduced him to Independiente's balding midfield genius, Ricardo Bochini, a friend and working-class hero in an era when footballers were swindled rather than pampered.
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He has swindled a new liver after a life of drugs and alcohol, and to show his appreciation, he has continued to indulge in those substances.
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Madoff pleaded guilty in 2009 to 11 federal counts in a fraudulent investment scheme involving billions of dollars, admitting he swindled thousands of clients over decades.
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They was no certainty that the audience would keep coming back for seven more nights to watch Kinte's kin raped, beaten and swindled, but they did.
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His worldview is one in which the United States has been swindled by the global market and political forces in order to diminish American power abroad.
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McKibben credited Underwood for "standing up for investors who may have been swindled, and indirectly the 7 billion of us who will suffer from Exxon's lies."
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Remember, Lonzo had sued Alan first back in April ... alleging the longtime family friend had conned them and swindled him out of more than $1.5 million.
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Founders and current and former executives of Tinder are suing IAC, the parent company that owns the dating app, claiming that they were swindled out of money.
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There's more -- according to the docs, Brandi's requesting an additional $25k to retain counsel in another financial matter involving Kevin allegedly getting swindled out of $77 MILLION.
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When Hillary Clinton's campaign ads feature swindled Trump University students later this year, as we expect they will, Trump will be tempted to respond with contrary testimony.
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The CIA, in a statement, pushed back against reporting that said U.S. spies were swindled out of $100,000 during secret negotiations meant to obtain stolen cyber tools.
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Shortly after the presidential election in 2016, he obtained a $25 million settlement for customers of Trump University who claimed to have been swindled by that entity.
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To anyone who will listen, they will disclaim him as a fluke—a skilled entertainer who ran an infomercial-like campaign and swindled Republicans into supporting him.
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Ms. Sorokin, they said, swindled $275,000 from the rich and the unsuspecting — including friends and financial institutions — to pay for the luxurious lifestyle she so desperately desired.
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A whole heap of songs Peloton apparently swindled are from hard hitters, including Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande, Ed Sheeran, Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, Rihanna, and Justin Bieber.
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He detailed how Trump has swindled creditors of his bankrupt casinos, students at Trump University, contractors — "companies just like my dad's" — and charities he promised to help.
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Prosecutors had not linked Mr. Peralta's financial crimes to the broader de Blasio inquiry, except that Mr. Reichberg and Mr. Rechnitz were two of the swindled investors.
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As we previously reported, Brees suspected he was swindled by his jeweler so he brought it to another appraiser who valued it at a mere $2 million.
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Shine in the sleekest dress you own, add some jewelry for style, and pop the champagne like you just swindled 10 finance bros out of their credit cards.
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Aldo Elias, president of Argentina's Tourism Hotels Association, said the new rules would simplify what had previously been a messy process that left tourists vulnerable to being swindled.
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Facebook and Calibra may have positive intentions to assist the unbanked who are indeed swindled by banks and money transfer services that levy huge fees against poorer families.
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While convincing investment firms to provide more than $270 million to construct a fiber optic cable system in northern Alaska, she also swindled two individuals out of $365,000.
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Fraudsters offering fake prizes and job opportunities swindled tens of thousands of U.S. consumers, giving Western Union agents a cut in return for processing the payments, authorities said.
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Given that it's almost impossible to know if you're being swindled, Solin recommends only putting as much into your 4013(k) as your employer is willing to match.
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He brought cases against international drug cartels, money launderers, the murderer of John Lennon, the "preppy killer" Robert Chambers and the son who swindled millions from Brooke Astor.
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Starring Nicole Kidman as Isabel Archer, Campion reimagines the tale of an innocent woman of independent means swindled by Madame Merle (Barbara Hershey) and Gilbert Osmond (John Malkovich).
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The secret account is at the heart of a federal racketeering lawsuit brought by a collective of tobacco farmers who say they were swindled out of $24 million.
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Shkreli also is accused of looting the drug company he founded, Retrophin, out of stock and cash to pay back the hedge fund investors for their swindled money.
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The lawsuit, filed Thursday, claims DeVos and the Department of Education illegally suspended increased Obama-era regulations that would have helped students swindled by predatory for-profit colleges.
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CoinDash says it will still issue tokens to anyone who was swindled (as long as it happened before company employees shut their site down upon discovery of the hack).
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Again, you can just leave your money in the exchange, but that increases the risk of getting swindled by the exchange itself, or a hacker breaking through its security.
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The billionaire William I. Koch is one of the few individuals who were open about getting swindled when buying vintage wine, including some that supposedly belonged to Thomas Jefferson.
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Who do you want to be: The person who doesn't have a clue and has to fully trust an expert, or someone who can tell when they're being swindled?
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But Picard as of last November had recovered more than $13.3 billion of the approximately $17.5 billion of claims by customers who say they were swindled by Madoff's scheme.
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A Wall street trader who earned millions making bets in commodities markets says a 21-year-old art professor swindled him out of more than half a million dollars.
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On average, more than 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) is swindled out of the mainland to Taiwan by telephone scammers every year, the official Xinhua news agency has reported.
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What started out as a state fund to build infrastructure projects in Malaysia, turned out to to be a huge scandal, where billions were swindled into private bank accounts.
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We have been sheltered by our parents, swindled by our universities, deadened by our therapists, and for all this our reward has been glib condescension from the boomer press.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission recently issued a warning that if investors are swindled by less reputable crypto operators, the ability to recoup their losses likely will be limited.
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Among those swindled by Yohai is the award-winning actor Dustin Hoffman and Guy Aroch, a prominent photographer, both of whom invested millions in real estate deals with Yohai.
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Al Taubman was sentenced in 2001 to a year in prison after his conviction in a price-fixing scheme that swindled more than $100 million from auction house customers.
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"The smell was inhumane," he said, describing two inedible meals they were given and the lawyer he said swindled detainees out of hundreds of dollars, promising to get them released.
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Shkreli, 33, later was charged with securities fraud by federal prosecutors, who claim he looted Retrophin's assets to pay off investors he had allegedly swindled while earlier running hedge funds.
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Lonzo Ball is suing Alan Foster -- the co-founder of the Big Baller Brand -- alleging the longtime family friend conned them and swindled them out of more than $1.5 million.
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After leaving office, in 1877, he moved to New York, eager to make his fortune, and got swindled by a plausible con man, losing all the money he had made.
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My grandmother had lost her own dacha in the nineties, after Uncle Lev got swindled out of his share in a geological-exploration company he'd founded with some fellow-scientists.
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Michael Avenatti, adult-film actress Stormy Daniels's former attorney, will appear in Manhattan court in April to face charges that he swindled Daniels out of $300,000, The Washington Post reports.
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Astor's death at Holly Hill in 2007, Mr. Marshall was indicted and found guilty on criminal charges of having swindled millions from his mother after she was stricken with Alzheimer's.
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Sagar Thakkar, AKA "Shaggy", had fled to Dubai, but returned to India fearing that he would be handed over to America, where he faces charges, and the ire of swindled taxpayers.
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Just ask the Georgia woman who met an online Romeo who allegedly swindled her out of more than $80,000 after asking her to marry him just a week after they met.
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Stan Lee just sued his ex-business manager, alleging the guy swindled him out of more than $1.4 million ... and sources tell us Stan wants $20 million to make him pay.
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Last year, one such gang swindled a payment manager in a local government office in southwest China and made off with 117 million renminbi, or about $18 million, the report said.
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It describes how, in his mid-twenties, Sater and three associates swindled investors out of $211 million and then "carefully laundered" it through offshore accounts with the help of organized crime figures.
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While many marketers see a relatively high hover rate as a sign that they're running a campaign with great viewability, the truth is they are more likely being swindled by fraudulent actors.
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Canadian police are warning recently resettled refugees and immigrants in the country to be wary of the scam, which has left some people swindled out of hundreds or even thousands of dollars.
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Time Warner Cable must know it, too, because in my recent experience, the company's swindled me out hundreds of dollars by overcharging me for service that's been dependably slow but hardly dependable.
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Moreover, according to TIME, Post's relatives convinced him to put a chunk of his money into unprofitable business ventures, and his landlady swindled him into handing over a third of his cash.
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" On Wednesday, Mr. Bai received a message from Han Mengjie, Communist Party secretary of the national center, saying: "If you have detailed information on how victims were swindled, please let us know.
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The CEO of New York state's oldest credit union swindled his institution for years out of millions of dollars and blew a whopping $3.55 million on lottery tickets, federal prosecutors charged Tuesday.
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Ms. Huppert plays a filmmaker, based on Ms. Breillat, who, while recovering from a stroke, is swindled by a charismatic con man to whom she offered a role in her next movie.
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One of these is making sure workers don't end up swindled by unreliable for-profit schools or scam training programs that leave them no better off than they were before they enrolled.
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Lawyers for De Mol said that consumers had been swindled out of 1.7 million euros ($1.9 million) by De Mol-linked ads, and that he was only one of several Dutch celebrities targeted.
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The comedian surprised his swindled fans in Charlotte Thursday by showing up at the restaurant they were at and delivering tix to see him perform at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center that night.
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Sanctioning bodies have mushroomed over the years (each bringing their respective version of a championship), and have essentially swindled the public into believing certain matchups were more significant than they were in reality.
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A public information officer in Slidell did not return a request for comment or for charging documents that detailed exactly what Neu's involvement was as a middleman, or how much money he swindled.
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Buttigieg previously suggested debt relief for students who'd gotten swindled by "low-quality" programs, like for profit-schools, but Friday's plan mentioned that he'd soon release a more comprehensive plan on student debt.
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You've heard all the bad stories about people that have been swindled out of their money, or have made bad career decisions, and that usually has to do with the people around them.
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The investigation into how Stan Lee's bank account got swindled out of $300k has gotten even more bizarre -- it appears someone also used the comic book legend's money to buy a freakin' condo.
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The janitor hoped that someday the painter would win the lawsuit he had filed against Adik, the crook who had swindled him out of his apartment, and would then pay what he owed.
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Brafman said the amount of money Shkreli could be made to surrender would have been much higher if he had been found guilty of ripping off Retrophin, to repay swindled hedge-fund investors.
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HBO got Robert De Niro to star in Wizard of Lies, its film about Bernie Madoff and the eventual bust of his Ponzi scheme that swindled investors out of $65 billion over 20 years.
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One Riverdale theorist on Reddit, rwhyman1, thinks that it's Ethel's own dad, who was swindled by businessman baddie Hiram Lodge (Mark Consuelos), that has taken up the mantle of the Black Hood as vengeance.
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The FTC alleges these networks swindled users into ordering "free trials" of the supposed celeb-endorsed products, only to learn they'd unknowingly signed up for recurring shipments for which they were automatically charged monthly.
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Lawyers for De Mol said that consumers had been swindled out of 1.7 million euros ($1.9 million) by the De Mol-linked ads, and that he was only one of several Dutch celebrities targeted.
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According to prosecutors, she allegedly swindled a friend out of $62,000 during a luxurious trip to Morocco by paying for the hotel with a debit card that she knew was going to be declined.
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Critic score: 42%Audience score: 45%Netflix description: "When a widow gets swindled out of insurance money, her search for answers leads to two cunning lawyers in Panama who hide cash for the superrich."
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Madoff was arrested in December 2008 on allegations that the prestigious asset management firm he ran in Manhattan was, in fact, a pyramid-type scheme that swindled billions of dollars from thousands of people.
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He was arrested in December 133 on allegations that the prestigious asset management firm he ran in Manhattan was in fact a pyramid-type scheme that swindled billions of dollars from thousands of people.
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Swindled by history, Nabokov had — thanks to the late-arriving roller skates, over a skin-shedding century, from a land where more people who have lost worlds have ever congregated — amply settled his account.
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Same goes for so many of Trump's supporters, who don't care whether a man who calls for more protectionism wears ties and shirts made overseas or whether he swindled people signing up for Trump University.
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The actor filed a $25 million lawsuit against his ex-managers Joel and Rob Mandel at TMG in January, alleging that they swindled him out of millions through fraud, breach of contract and professional negligence.
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The actor filed a $2000 million lawsuit against his ex-managers Joel and Rob Mandel at TMG in January, alleging that they swindled him out of millions through fraud, breach of contract and professional negligence.
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In response to the order of forfeiture, Shkreli's legal team is sticking to the same story it told at trial—one where fraud can't be committed if the swindled people make money in the end.
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These questions have fascinated people ever since the news broke about the respected New York financier who swindled his friends, relatives, and other investors out of $65 billion through a fraud that lasted for decades.
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Aware that Yankee buyers in Europe were being treated as easy marks, Forbes saw that, if he was to avoid being swindled, he needed to educate himself in the material construction of Old Master paintings.
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VICE France talked it through with four dealers—who freely admitted to having swindled customers that they call pigeons (French slang for "sucker" or "pushover") every now and then—so we could learn their ways.
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He also was convicted of manipulating shares in another drug company he later founded, Retrophin, whose stock and cash he also used to repay swindled investors in his hedge funds, MSMB Capital and MSMB Healthcare.
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It resulted in a more strong-willed empathy to defend the right for others to believe and evangelize what they hold to be true to them (as long as others aren't getting swindled, tricked, or hurt).
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In particular, the Delvey case (in which the supposed German heiress swindled people close to her out of money) was one that reflected a lot of our feelings about class and who "deserves" to get scammed.
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Madoff, now 81, was arrested in December 2008 on allegations that the prestigious asset management firm he ran in Manhattan was in fact a pyramid-type scheme that swindled billions of dollars from thousands of people.
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The Trump administration is rewriting Obama-era rules of loan forgiveness for students who claim they've been swindled by for-profit universities, per AP. In the meantime, the Education Department is delaying action on 65,000 claims.
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The film also recounts his fall from grace after it was discovered that he perpetrated one of the largest Ponzi schemes in American history and swindled earnings from the hard-working, globally successful acts he managed.
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In fact, the history of the recent financial crisis, which doubles as a history of the rapid decline and fall of the suddenly swindled dry American empire, reads like a Who's Who of Goldman Sachs graduates.
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If you've been swindled or duped in the past, you'll know how important it is to monitor against online security risks, especially during the holiday sales period when we're spending more time and more money online.
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He kept at it as the censorship screws tightened, writing even last year about a businessman who was seeking compensation for wrongly serving seven years in prison after himself being swindled by a provincial police chief.
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In Scam Me If You Can, which was published on August 27, Abagnale tells the stories of catfished single people, social media identity theft, and fraudulent GoFundMe pages that swindled money and personal information from victims.
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Prosecutors said the agency, First Travel, swindled roughly $65 million from more than 63,000 people by promising to send them on holy tours to Saudi Arabia after each paid a cut-rate $1,000 fee up front.
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And in early February, the bureau sued a New Jersey-based legal funding company, alleging that it swindled first responders to the World Trade Center attack out of money they were owed from victim compensation funds.
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Over the course of 10 months in 2016, she swindled friends and financial institutions out of $275,000 in cash and services including luxury trips to Morocco and a private flight to the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting.
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The annals of sports lore are littered with cautionary tales of athletes making tens of millions of dollars, only to blow it all on failed business investments or to be swindled by con artists posing as advisers.
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Allen and Daub were accused of having from 2012 to April 2015 swindled investors by promising to use their money to back high-interest, short-term loans to athletes through Capital Financial Partners, their Massachusetts-based company.
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It all resulted in a more strong-willed empathy to defend the right for others to believe and evangelize what they hold to be true to them (as long as others aren't getting swindled, tricked, or hurt).
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Bobbitt later claimed that the two had swindled him out of the money, instead spending it on personal items, prompting an investigation that led to prosecutors declaring the entire story to be a scam late last year.
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This is like having a Wall Street broker trading on inside information to self-identify intentions and suspicious transactions, or asking a con artist to make victims sign a terms of service agreement before they get swindled.
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The recording is an exhibit in his lawsuit which comes on the heels of Diane suing him last week -- alleging JB is a fraudster who swindled her out of millions, and allegedly abused her physically and emotionally.
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Alberta Reclaim and Recycle, an Edmonton-based company owned by Johnny Ha and Shawn Diep, are alleged to have swindled the province out of $22014,2329 CAD by bringing beverage containers in from Yukon territory in enormous amounts.
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Alberta Reclaim and Recycle, an Edmonton-based company owned by Johnny Ha and Shawn Diep, are alleged to have swindled the province out of $769,778 CAD by bringing beverage containers in from Yukon territory in enormous amounts.
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A story about Anna Delvey, a fake German heiress who swindled money from banks and ritzy hotels, remains near the top of New York magazine's most-read list despite having been published more than six months ago.
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This is particularly true of the series' portrayal of gender relations, which inevitably fall into one of two categories: a brave dude protecting his lady, or a less brave dude easily seduced and swindled by an evil lady.
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A Los Angeles jury on Wednesday said MetLife and two of its affiliates should pay $15.6 million to a woman who said she was swindled in a reported Ponzi scheme that had links to a MetLife insurance agent.
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Evidence that embattled bank Wells Fargo had swindled some of its clients emerged in a June conference call led by its managers, according to two employees who were present during the call, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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"We are holding these companies accountable for their deceptive practices that swindled New Yorkers out of their hard-earned money and are putting in place reforms to protect ticket buyers in the future," James said in a statement.
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Tarek El Moussa got swindled out of $35k by a crooked realtor who later got his ass arrested for doing the exact same thing to others ... so claims Tarek, who's suing the realtor to get his jack back.
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FABULATION, OR THE RE-EDUCATION OF UNDINE A fabulously successful African-American publicist is forced to return to her roots in the projects of Brooklyn after being swindled by her husband in this 2004 comedy by Lynn Nottage.
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Johnny Rose used to be the CEO of Rose Video but he was swindled out of his fortune by a crappy business manager and, you know, CEO of a video rental chain isn't exactly a transferrable skill in 2019.
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Tired of feeling swindled by politicians after nearly six years of what feels like record corruption, many Mexicans appear eager to see a man widely believed to have been cheated of an electoral victory 12 years ago, finally win.
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The feds claim the couple ran a scheme in which they swindled banks out of millions of dollars in loans by providing fraudulent info -- not to mention screwing the public by dodging federal taxes on the money they earned.
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One, put up on behalf of the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, featured interviews with students who claim to have been swindled by Mr Trump's real-estate college, Trump University, which is the subject of a fraud investigation.
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When I ran into my credit problem, I endured long "holds" on the phone as I talked to the credit bureaus, the collection agency, multiple banks, and the retailer that tried to collect from me after they were swindled.
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New York (CNN Business)A federal judge ordered a luxury real estate developer and his investment firm to pay $1 billion in penalties and forfeited profits for operating an alleged Ponzi scheme that swindled thousands of mostly elderly investors.
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The prosecutor Philip Evans — vividly rendered here; the book is at its best when focused on the good guys — realizes he has to combat the narrative that these are harmless old men who swindled some vague, faceless banking entity.
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PHILADELPHIA — Lawyers for professional football players who reached a landmark settlement with the N.F.L. over concussions said Tuesday that hundreds of their clients may have been swindled by unscrupulous lenders and advisers looking for a cut of their payments.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Wednesday criminally charged 14 defendants with involvement in a $147 million stock manipulation scheme orchestrated in a Long Island, New York boiler room, and which swindled dozens of senior citizens and other investors.
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The story also has been updated to include details of a criminal information that prosecutors filed Tuesday, which breaks down how much Caspersen is alleged to have swindled, and an additional amount he allegedly tried to dupe investors into giving him.
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Officials say Barrone created a fake persona as a parole attorney named Mario Vredenburg and swindled $23,000 from 400 state inmates and their families through a business called the NYS Prisoner Assistance Center, which purported to specialize in parole cases.
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Lots of people were scratching their heads Monday trying to figure out why well-heeled, Ivy League-educated Wall Street executive Andrew Caspersen may have stooped to fraud, and swindled investors out of up to $95 million, as federal prosecutors charge.
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One of the major conflicts he discusses is being swindled into doing bad business deals with a former drug dealer who had also turned man of faith and took advantage of him, investing Head's money into areas with little return.
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Last year, after ITT Technical Institute shut down, Mr. Malone filed a claim with the Education Department, saying that the institution swindled him of nearly $50,000 of his grant through the G.I. Bill because he could not find gainful employment.
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While the site has now been repaired and there is no evidence a hacker ever took advantage of the security oversight, the flaw illustrates how an industrious hacker could have swindled money by sending out a fake email soliciting donations.
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When The Times followed the trail of one scam, it led to Nigeria, where six men said in interviews that they swindled Westerners over the internet because it paid far more than honest work, which they said was hard to find.
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Shkreli is accused of defrauding investors out of millions of dollars that they placed into his two hedge funds, and then ripping off the publicly traded drug company he had founded, Retrophin, to pay those investors back for their swindled cash.
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In addition to implementing numerous rules to protect consumers and stop predatory financial behavior, it has required the industry to return more than $12 billion to 30 million Americans who have been ripped off, cheated or swindled by the financial industry.
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The federal government filed the case in 2013 in an effort to recover several million dollars worth of property, primarily comprised of New York real estate, which was allegedly obtained to launder a portion of the money swindled in the tax refund scheme.
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One victim of Scarlet Widow — a religious Texas man who believed he was corresponding with an aspiring model training in Paris named Laura Cahill — was swindled out of at least $50,000; $10,000 of which it appears he obtained by stealing from his stepfather.
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"I am heartened, at least, that by passing my legislation, as part of this larger package, we will no longer hear of the people of Puerto Rico being swindled out of their nest eggs due to an antiquated loophole in federal investment law."
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Luxury scam: Anna Sorokin, the fake German heiress who swindled her way into Manhattan's elite party circles, was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison for bilking hotels, banks and a private jet operator out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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The book also recounts Xyza's unlikely journey from migrant domestic worker to street photographer to social documentarian telling the stories of migrant workers in Singapore, many of whom were abused, trafficked and swindled, as well as those in Hong Kong and New York.
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A good, if much lower-stakes, case study in how to pass the bar of responsible storytelling involves January's dueling documentaries about the notorious Fyre Festival, a high-profile disaster that swindled rich influencers — who then documented it every step of the way.
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Gibney, whose previous documentary subjects include Enron and Theranos, fully understands that before Khodorkovsky was a prisoner of conscience, he was an oligarch who swindled a nation and left it impoverished, resentful, and ripe for a strongman promising to make it great again.
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"Hamlet Peralta swindled millions of dollars from unsuspecting investors who trusted him because of his reputation in the community as a business owner and restaurateur," Joon H. Kim, the acting United States attorney in Manhattan, said in a statement after the hearing.
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Presumably you came to some sort of financial agreement with your schoolmate about rent before moving in, which suggests either that he is capable of generating at least funds enough to live on, or that you have already been swindled by him.
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In October 2017, for instance, Indian police arrested a group that used the leaked Aadhaar numbers of nearly 300 pensioners to open bank accounts in their names and swindled over 4 million Indian rupees' worth of pension money over two years, according to reports.
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The indictment, which charges him with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, accuses him of spending some of the money he allegedly swindled from Daniels on a lease payment for his Ferrari, travel expenses, dry cleaning and $56,000 in payroll at his law firm.
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"Not only did FedEx violate laws created to protect the public from the serious health risks associated with cigarettes, but they also swindled New York City and State out of millions of dollars in tax revenue," state Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement.
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"Our client supported Getaround and Mr. Zaid from the very start, only to be swindled out of $1.785 million that went straight into the pockets of Mr. Zaid's family and friends, as we allege," Gaw | Poe LLP Partner Samuel Song said in a statement.
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In all, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office alleged that the 59-year-old swindled people out of about $53,000 while pretending to be a priest at St. Bernard Catholic Church in Glassell Park and St. Ignatius of Loyola Catholic Church in Highland Park.
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We see Annalise steel up hard, maybe for the first time, when her client's father, Wallace (founder of a hedge fund that swindled millions from its clients and might have a murder to hide), claims he only hired her because she's a Black woman.
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Even worse, such a belief will only provide fuel for those who believe that the U.S.-Egypt aid relationship should continue as is, perpetuating an unacceptable status-quo in which the American people continue to be swindled with few tangible deliverables to show for it.
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In this week's issue of PEOPLE, Newell says her short-term marital bliss imploded after her four suspicious kids hired a private investigator, who uncovered a long line of secrets and deceptions in Meehan's past — among them, that he'd swindled and terrorized multiple women he'd met online.
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Thousands of students who say they have been swindled by predatory for-profit universities will soon learn whether their loans will be forgiven by the Education Department, but under a new Trump administration policy, some students who expected full loan forgiveness may only receive partial relief.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - Americans were swindled out of tens of millions of dollars in an alleged tax scam that was run for about a year from call centers on the outskirts of Mumbai, a senior investigator said on Thursday, predicting more arrests on top of the 70 made so far.
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I'm not going to name any names, but all it takes is one read of his autobiography to see how some of the same people who screwed him over and "swindled his earnings," as he wrote, are the ones coming out of the woodwork to salute his legacy.
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When Mr. Trump warns that the United States is getting swindled by the Iran nuclear deal or the North American Free Trade Agreement, he is speaking directly to a feeling among many Americans that they have been sold out by untrustworthy elites, that the game is rigged against them.
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" According to the board, the proof of this — and of Warren's political and policy skill — lies in her work in creating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an agency the editorial board described as being designed to "look out for little guys swindled by lenders and credit card companies.
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The coming fight on the CFPB's rule — and, make no mistake, it will be a fight — will tell us once and for all: Are lawmakers on the side of customers (their constituents) who have been swindled by big banks and payday lenders, or are they with Wall Street?
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Photo: Richard Drew (AP)Anna Sorokin—the woman who posed as a German heiress and swindled New York's social elite and numerous institutions out of hundreds of thousands of dollars under the name Anna Delvey—may not be able to cash in on the forthcoming Netflix series based on her story.
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But that dream has been nothing more than a cruel illusion because the reality was that my coworkers and I were swindled into becoming responsible for just about all of our employers' business expenses and told we were "independent contractors" while in reality we are controlled like any other employee.
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The three families chosen: a family of four in Overtown, Miami — told through the perspective of seven-year-old Terrence; a couple and their daughter who escaped war-torn Burundi and settled in Eastern Iowa; and a single mom and her nine children in Los Angeles who were swindled into home foreclosure.
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While an oversight board of some kind is likely the right approach to dealing with Puerto Rico's financial problems, the legislation as it currently stands fails to implement that board in such a way as to protect creditors from being swindled, and by extension, protect the island's long-term access to credit markets.
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A commission panel ruled that the consultant, Paul Se Hui Oei, a flamboyant businessman with a fondness for luxury cars, had swindled nearly $4 million dollars from investors, including Chinese immigrants and citizens of China who were led to believe that their investment would allow them to secure permanent residency status in Canada.
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They hired a private investigator who validated their fears: Not only had Meehan never attended medical school, he had a felony rap sheet that revealed he'd served time in California and Michigan for stealing narcotics from hospitals where he worked as a nurse and had swindled and terrorized multiple other women he'd met online.
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"From 2005 to 2014 — from about the time he got out of prison in Michigan for drug theft to the time he met Debra Newell in California — he had seduced, swindled, and terrorized multiple women, many of whom he had met on dating sites while posing as a doctor, court records showed," Goffard said.
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She is one of the most prominent art world figures to face prison since 25, when the former chairman of Sotheby's, A. Alfred Taubman, was sentenced to a year and a day in prison and fined $2000 million for leading a price-fixing scheme with Christie's that swindled customers out of more than $100 million.
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AHAM then sent me two articles—one in which a woman called the wrong number for an actual repair company and was swindled out of $420 by random people, and another from 2013 published on a site called Ezine Articles in which a competent repair person fixed a washing machine repaired by someone who messed something up without incident.
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It completely drowned out the brazenly criminal activities of a man who had openly admitted to not paying federal taxes; had swindled unsuspecting citizens out of money to finance a now defunct "university"; spent his business career essentially bribing elected officials; kicked black tenants out of properties; and is now the public target of numerous allegations that he is serial sexual predator.
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Starring Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu, Kiki Palmer, Cardi B, Lizzo, Lili Reinhart, and Julia Stiles, the film reimagines the true life tale of Roselyn Keo (Wu's Destiny is a proxy for Keo) and Samantha Barbash (Lopez's Ramona is inspired by Barbash), and the money these hustlers reportedly swindled from Wall Street men over the course of a few years following the 2008 recession.
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TV host Krystal Ball, who said recent allegations that Commerce Secretary Wilbur RossWilbur Louis RossTrump administration delays penalty on Huawei for another 28503 days WaPo calls Trump admin 'another threat' to endangered species Recession fears surge as stock markets plunge MORE swindled large sums of money from associates during his time as a businessman were signs of a larger problem within the Trump administration.
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Most Aquarians are an equal blend of book smart and street smart, but getting swindled can happen to anyone and if you find yourself in a situation that's less than ideal, take it as a lesson—and if you find yourself beating yourself up over it, try to be gentle with yourself and reach out to someone who has been there, done that, and can lend an ear.
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Other investigations indicated that it brokered arms deals with criminals, rebels, and terrorists around the world, including fighters on opposing sides of the Syrian civil war; extorted billions of euros from businesses; and swindled the Italian state and the European Union out of tens of billions more, particularly through contracts for roads, ports, wind and solar power, and even the disposal of nuclear waste, which it dumped at sea off Somalia.
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Meanwhile, outside Meade, Ohio, a sort of semi-Sodom where a barbarous barkeep tortures patrons to death (and where, as the United States enters World War I, people are "kicking dachshunds to death, making 90-year-old Americans with German-sounding names get down on their knees in the streets and kiss the American flag, calling sauerkraut Liberty cabbage"), we meet the Fiddlers, Eula and Ellsworth, two farmers still reeling from having been swindled out of their life's savings.
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When it comes to online shopping scams, things get particularly bleak: People in their 20s and 30s are more than twice as likely to report getting swindled than older Americans—in the past two years, millennials and Gen Z have lost $70 million to buying items that are never delivered or not at all how they're advertised "When we're looking at the differences in reporting [between age groups], it's really, really jarring," said Monica Vaca, the associate director of the FTC's division of consumer response and operations.
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Democratic strategist Juanita Tolliver warned on Wednesday that the people President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE has surrounded himself with are driving the administration into dangerous territory, citing recent allegations that Commerce Secretary Wilbur RossWilbur Louis RossTrump administration delays penalty on Huawei for another 28503 days WaPo calls Trump admin 'another threat' to endangered species Recession fears surge as stock markets plunge MORE swindled large sums of money from associates during his time as a businessman.
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