He is no longer the swindler and villain he was.
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"Everyone is pushing the envelope all the time," Ms. Swindler said.
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She's a vigilante scammer where McGill is an equal-opportunity swindler.
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The swindler Adik, incidentally, had acted differently when they first met.
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Was Wright more roguish hustler, conniving swindler or a mix of both?
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The bigger issue is often not whether a broker is a swindler.
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She then read the card information to the swindler over the phone.
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Unfortunately, his mother, the brassy swindler Danny (Adjani), gambled away his savings.
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The operations of Trump University alone paint the convincing portrait of a swindler.
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Saint or swindler, hoax or holy; when isn't there a bit of both?
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They said they cared about family values, but they elected a bullying, misogynistic swindler.
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Forest Whitaker plays Erie Smith, a minor swindler with a major gift of gab.
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"They need help, we show," said Chris Swindler, a volunteer firefighter from Helena, Okla.
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Okay. The party will unite behind a serial swindler and self-confessed sexual predator?
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"My stomach is as dark as Bay," Swindler said to Rummans in reference to Dayton.
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He's a swindler (a problem for early critics), but a sweetheart and a steadfast friend.
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In some, she's a proud swindler giving her followers a peek into her bag of tricks.
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Officials continued to use the devices long after its manufacturer had been exposed as a swindler.
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The swindler Adik knew exactly what he was doing, reselling the painter's apartment to this family.
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"Its hard to decipher the difference between a sincere entertainer and an honest swindler," Cobain wrote.
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Never change, Lando — you slimy, double-crossing, no-good swindler we can't wait to see more of.
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Instead it had been invested in a now-bankrupt used-car dealership run by a convicted bank swindler.
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In the final chapter of "Pierre," the protagonist's publisher sends him a letter: SIR: You are a swindler.
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"I'm very competitive and I don't even care it's a football, I just want to win it," said Swindler.
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When I was a teenager, I learned the jewelry business from the most gifted swindler I would ever know.
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The book paints a compelling social landscape of what appears to have been a golden age of the swindler.
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The showman also had his own definition of humbug, believing there is a difference between a humbug and a swindler.
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The five-acre Swindler Cove at Sherman Creek Park, with a children's garden and educational programs, is on the east.
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Message: Mr. Cohen is a liar, a "swindler," a narcissist and a felon whom only a fool would listen to.
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EMPIRE OF DECEPTION: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation, by Dean Jobb.
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The two-timing swindler, said to like cursing, smoking and motorbikes, confessed that he was not a man but a woman.
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As inequality widens, so does admiration for the swindler, while playing the system has become synonymous with achieving the American dream.
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"That's when things start to drift into manipulation," said Katie Swindler, director of user experience at FCB Chicago, an ad agency.
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But even a swindler is entitled to fair treatment by prosecutors, including the constitutionally protected right to see any exculpatory evidence.
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The cast members, Angela Rummans, 26, and Rachel Swindler, 29, compared their skin after a tan to their black roommate Bayleigh Dayton.
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Evil is a big word, but perhaps it's the only one adequate to describe a swindler as skillful and remorseless as Meehan.
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DiCaprio, 41, played Jordan Belfort, a stock swindler who founded Stratton Oakmont and whose 2007 memoir was a basis for the film.
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In this context, it's meant to paint Heard as an exploitative swindler who is going to "take" Depp for millions of dollars.
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Unsurprisingly, Macrory found Wright's antics every bit as fascinating as his submerged hideaway, and in 2016 started writing a book about the swindler.
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I would be thrilled to learn that Kim is a farsighted reformer masquerading, out of desperate necessity, as a thug and a swindler.
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But SDNY prosecutors blasted him as a lifelong swindler, and a greedy man who wouldn't hesitate to threaten others to get his way.
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HALSEY SHOWS OFF REVENGE BODY AFTER G-EAZY SPLIT "My stomach is as dark as Bay," Swindler said to Rummans in reference to Dayton.
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Greenwood is housed in the same Butner, North Carolina, medium-security prison as swindler Bernard Madoff, and is eligible for release in November 2023.
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Duped by a swindler in 2004 who started a relationship with him and then stole his savings, his trust in people was greatly shaken.
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It took a swindler of Donald Trump's shamelessness, and the unexpected consolidation of power in Republican hands, to expose the limits of this spin.
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The romance version has the swindler contacting the victim through a dating site, pretending to fall in love, then asking the mark for money.
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"Hughie" stars the Oscar winner Forest Whitaker as a minor swindler with a major gift of gab, in a revival of the Eugene O'Neill play.
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Many net winners believe their claims were undervalued in the liquidation of Madoff's firm, and sued other individuals and companies that dealt with the swindler.
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Grant's preface alludes to the fact that he wrote as he was dying cruelly of throat cancer, after a swindler had bankrupted and humiliated him.
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Dr. Billy Sol Hargus, a radio evangelist who was a cross between the TV preacher Billy James Hargis and the fertilizer swindler Billie Sol Estes.
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Corbally recruited Thomas Quinn, a veteran stock swindler, and the two formed a company with Frankel; they traveled the country looking to buy smaller insurance firms.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The latest film about infamous swindler Bernard Madoff, whose decades-long Ponzi scheme cost clients more than $17 billion, ends with a question.
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The Ponzi scheme is named after convicted money swindler Charles Ponzi, whose investment schemes in 1920 made him millions — until it all collapsed, costing others millions.
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As previously reported , CBS issued a statement acknowledging the issue after two houseguests, Angela Rummans, 26, and Rachel Swindler, 29, compared their taned skin to Bayleigh Dayton.
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Nearly 1,200 investors were demanding around 420 million francs in compensation from Dieter Behring, who was dubbed by media as Switzerland's Bernie Madoff, after the American swindler.
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The swindler, now 78, pleaded guilty three months later, and is serving a 150-year prison term for running what federal prosecutors called a $64.8 billion Ponzi scheme.
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It is just a vision of America-as-Trump, a promise that if an unashamed swindler can become a wealthy celebrity then America must still have a chance.
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Bernstein nevertheless found it "wholly conclusory" to allege that Picower helped Madoff distribute fake statements to customers, and had enough "control" over the swindler to justify separate litigation.
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Authorities say 21MDB's money was also spent on gambling and used to make the "Wolf of Wall Street", a film about a high-living swindler starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Others who have pulled off spectacular con jobs down here include Jimmy Sabatino, a Staten Island swindler whose most recent caper sent him to a supermax prison lockup.
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The character, Nicky "Rugrat" Koskof, is close friends in the movie with Jordan Belfort, a notorious stock swindler who cost investors tens of millions of dollars in the 1990s.
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But after The Swindler garnered more attention for its name (which could be interpreted as propagating negative Jewish stereotypes) and was called out by Twin Cities online publication TCJewfolk.
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He cleverly implies that his own sensibility — playful, minutely observant, ticklishly alert to life's "terrible, stupendous mire of trivia" — is exactly what's needed to detect a swindler like Chichikov.
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The one I went to school with was known as a notorious swindler and snake-oil salesman, and I certainly would never do business with him for those reasons.
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Inquiry here shows that the swindler is the authentic Prince Looz, a rake of about thirty years of age, belonging to one of the oldest and grandest Belgian families.
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In recent years, some wealthy defendants have been allowed to live in luxury while facing criminal charges, including swindler Bernard Madoff and former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
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Since October 2013, about 900,000 people have reported getting a call from an I.R.S. phone swindler, and not all of these people hung up unscathed, the Treasury Department reported in January.
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"We regret that the name of the Swindler Sandwich within the 2017 Minnesota State Fair New Foods list was negatively received," the state fair said in an official statement issued yesterday.
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Picard had sued Koch, HSBC Holdings Plc, UBS AG and others in 88 lawsuits to recoup funds traceable to the imprisoned swindler, but which had been sent outside the United States.
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Oesterlund was "a highly successful internet swindler," engaged in "internet scams, forgeries, tax fraud, bank fraud, HUD fraud, immigration fraud, fraudulent overseas transfers and other misconduct," Fisher told a Florida judge.
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Greenberg Traurig has agreed to pay $65 million to victims of an estimated $7 billion Ponzi scheme who said the law firm helped the now-convicted swindler Allen Stanford perpetrate his fraud.
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I walked over and introduced myself to this man with crepe paper skin in an ill-fitting jacket, so removed from the sly, charming, audacious swindler I had been chasing for months.
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Ruth Madoff, the wife of imprisoned swindler Bernard Madoff, agreed to pay $594,000 and surrender her remaining assets when she dies to settle claims by the court-appointed trustee liquidating her husband's firm.
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Cabel Sasser narrowly avoided having his bank account emptied last week by a swindler running an ATM card scam, an escape from a financial nightmare that he recounted in a string of tweets.
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Ms. Swindler and Dennis Ellis, a user-experience strategist at her agency, gave a recent talk titled "Checkbox That Ruined My Life: Manipulative Design" at the South by Southwest Conference in Austin, Tex.
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A convicted swindler with a Runyonesque persona, Mr. Weinberg, facing prison for fraud, traded his criminal savvy for probation and became a principal orchestrator and actor in the two-year operation code-named Abscam.
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Henriques, an investigative reporter and author of the bestselling book and recent HBO film adaptation "The Wizard of Lies," about convicted swindler Bernard Madoff, shared both her research and her concerns with CNBC on Wednesday.
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In early 2009, Ms. Gabor discovered that she had joined a long list of celebrities who were victimized by Bernard L. Madoff, the financial swindler whose worldwide Ponzi scheme that cost investors tens of billions.
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But in white-collar cases, that is rarely a concern — so even a notorious swindler like Bernard L. Madoff has been released until there was a finding of guilt on the charges made against him.
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Is Paul (who denies all the accusations) the architect of some decades-long political scheme, or is just a skillful swindler, fooling me into reading my life as a fascinating story instead of a long dupe?
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ruth Madoff, the wife of imprisoned swindler Bernard Madoff, agreed to pay $594,000 and surrender her remaining assets when she dies to settle claims by the court-appointed trustee liquidating her husband's firm.
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Taylor Klauza and Grace Swindler, both students at University of South Carolina and volunteers at the Rubio campaign headquarters, explained that there was a competition going on between the interns for who could make the most calls.
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Slated to be sold at the Hideaway Speakeasy stand, the sandwich in question was called "The Swindler," and contains smoked salmon, cucumbers, capers, and cream cheese with fresh dill on pumpernickel—ingredients commonly associated with Jewish delicatessens.
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NEW YORK, May 6 (Reuters) - Ruth Madoff, the wife of imprisoned swindler Bernard Madoff, agreed to pay $594,000 and surrender her remaining assets when she dies to settle claims by the court-appointed trustee liquidating her husband's firm.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - PricewaterhouseCoopers agreed to pay $093 million to settle claims it failed to audit properly the books of Fairfield Greenwich Group, the biggest operator of "feeder funds" for now-imprisoned swindler Bernard Madoff, court papers showed.
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It is not the boastful and versatile Uncle Vili, by turns soldier, swindler and spy, whom we mainly remember from this book, but Aunt Flora, who played Schumann those summer nights and who ended alone and embittered in Venice.
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Set in Japanese-occupied Korea in the 1930s, Park Chan-wook's "The Handmaiden" chronicles an elaborate plot between a swindler and a pickpocket to seduce and con a Japanese woman of her inheritance from under the nose of her authoritarian uncle.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal bankruptcy judge on Thursday narrowed a $905 million lawsuit filed by the trustee seeking money for Bernard Madoff's victims against executives who ran a now-defunct Florida accounting firm that had close ties to the swindler.
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In an act that can only be compared to the antics of Tour de France swindler, Lance Armstrong, the seasoned pigeon racer microchipped a bird and calculated its record-setting time without ever setting it free from his Oxfordshire apartment.
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These were the years when our collective sense of objective reality totally fell apart and when politics, business, technology, culture and even ordinary life fell fully under the sway of a new breed of swindler, huckster, influencer, troll and hacker.
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U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Stuart Bernstein in Manhattan said defendants in most of the 88 lawsuits could keep money that Irving Picard, who is liquidating Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, traced to the swindler but was sent outside the United States.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge has rejected a request by imprisoned swindler Bernard Madoff's longtime secretary to be released early from prison because of her age, and suggested she ask the Federal Bureau of Prisons for permission to move to home confinement.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge said the trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff's firm may pursue nearly all of his lawsuit to recoup hundreds of millions of dollars stemming from New York money manager J. Ezra Merkin's ties to the now-imprisoned swindler.
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It also comes days after a court upheld a key judgment in the "Super-Swindler" trial, Vietnam's largest-ever case of fraud, which highlighted its ability to tackle financial crime at a time when foreign banks are heeding government calls to invest.
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But the 2016 cycle — a period when the GOP surrendered its family and fiscal values for a philandering celebrity swindler and Democrats suddenly defended the state of money in politics when Hillary Clinton's role in it was at hand — is a grim harbinger.
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VICE talked to the authors to find out how Low cultivated an image as a billionaire and got in with the one percent, what his story says about the elite and high society of the world, and why law enforcement can't catch the alleged swindler.
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Nick Nolte plays Bob, a majestic ruin of a gambler and heroin addict who is pulled into a Monte Carlo casino heist by some art-swindler thugs in Neil Jordan's ultimate caper, a variation on "Bob le Flambeur," Jean-Pierre Melville's 1956 film noir.
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Marlow, making a return after more than a decade, recalls the story of Flora de Barral, the daughter of a famous swindler, whose elopement with the master seaman Captain Anthony is seen as a sort of betrayal by Flora's father on his release from prison.
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Big City Late last week, Cyrus Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, trumpeted what he clearly considered was a big win for his office — the conviction of Anna Sorokin, the fictitious heiress, the party-girl swindler, the Robin Hood tipper, the danger to minibars.
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On Sunday, the Chinese government answered Mr. Wang's allegations by saying he was a convicted swindler who had been sentenced to more than a year in prison in a 2016 fraud case and was wanted by the Shanghai police in a case from earlier this year.
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In story after story, Sater is described as Donald Trump's former business partner, a convicted stock swindler who was born in the Soviet Union, worked in Russia, tried to win Trump a deal in Moscow, and even helped broker a Ukrainian peace plan that Vladimir Putin would have loved.
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Multiple other accusers made similar claims about Maxwell, a British socialite who is the daughter of Robert Maxwell, a media tycoon whose mysterious death at sea in 1991 led to him being exposed as a swindler who had looted his companies' pension funds of hundreds of millions of dollars.
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TYLLBy Daniel KehlmannTranslated by Ross Benjamin Tyll Ulenspiegel first appeared as an impish swindler and tightrope walker at the end of the Middle Ages, became a Protestant hero in the 19th century and lent his name to magazines, films, operas and the first American B.D.S.M. organization in the 20th.
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It's as true of the psychic who takes advantage of the brokenhearted or the cult leader who preys on lost souls as it is of that Turkish swindler who knew that nothing would sound more enticing to a couple of American college kids than the prospect of a night on the town with a local.
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BuzzFeed News has previously reported that text messages and emails show Sater — a real estate developer, convicted stock swindler, and longtime asset for US government intelligence agencies — worked furiously to arrange a trip for Cohen to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, where he was supposed to meet with top Russian bankers and government officials.
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There is no nod to the fact that Kenny and his pals may be exploiting the Indonesian people in their search for gold on their land, no idea that maybe all of these corporate parties are in fact their own horror, no admission that maybe Kenny is a swindler who's bad for humanity himself.
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The word shyster has appeared in two New York Times articles in the past year, including on July 5 in The Shortlist book review "Americana" by Paula Uruburu, which features a review of "Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation" by Dean Jobb:
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Most of it was petty, bumbling, and shabby: favoritism and graft, wheeling and dealing, mainly done not by the President but by the men around him, not least the notorious Grant staffer and Whiskey Ring swindler Orville Babcock, whom Grant could never bring himself to fire but instead rusticated by appointing him Inspector of Lighthouses.
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In the past, Mr. Erdogan has derided and cajoled those who have tried to break away from the A.K.P. But in a sign of how seriously he regards the latest challenge, he has gone on the offensive, branding the two men as traitors and calling Mr. Davutoglu a swindler over a recent property scandal.
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The Ho Chi Minh City People's High Court rejected an appeal on Wednesday against a judgment that the central perpetrator of a 4.9 trillion dong ($215 million) theft - dubbed "Super Swindler" by local media - is responsible for returning some of the stolen money, rather than the individual's employer at the time, state-controlled VietinBank CTG.
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The word shyster has appeared in two New York Times articles in the past year, including on July 5 in The Shortlist book review "Americana" by Paula Uruburu, which features a review of "Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation" by Dean Jobb: A man.
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But the truth of the matter is clear, and explains why Ivanka's not going to stop, and why credulous stories about her private struggle will appear every time her father's administration offends the world: Ivanka isn't a failure, but a swindler of global proportions who has supplemented her preposterous fortune by pretending—in a not particularly convincing way—to play an inside game she really has no interest in.
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Still, Professor Czitrom's evocative account reveals that the nexus between politics, policing and biblical trespasses in the late 19th century introduced the term "organized crime," spawned the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, demonstrated the power of mass media and even presaged reality television shows when George Appo, a notorious swindler, and Tom Gould, owner of a disreputable saloon, played themselves when "In the Tenderloin" opened at a theater on the Bowery.
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To be fair, the movie kicks off with a disclaimer that the hour-and-a-half flick is only "inspired" by true events, but anyone who's been following the news cycle knows that the entire premise of the movie, and the excitement surrounding it, is predicated on the salaciousness of "Operation Varsity Blues," the real-life college admissions scandal that saw some $25 million paid to bigtime swindler Rick Singer by overeager parents desperate to get their kids into top colleges around the country.
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