Sentences with phrase «for swindling»

Former newspaper mogul Conrad Black was sentenced Monday to 6 1/2 years in prison for swindling shareholders in his Hollinger International media empire out of millions of dollars to help finance his lavish lifestyle.

Courthouse News reports this morning that Mike Lamb, journeyman infielder, is suing a «friend» for swindling him out of $ 253,000.

We get paid for the work we do, not for swindling authors.

In 1883, Thomas Edison warned that chasing the perfect battery is a fool's journey: «a catchpenny, a sensation, a mechanism for swindling the public by stock companies,» he wrote.

In 2013, my office sued Donald Trump for swindling thousands of innocent Americans out of millions of dollars through a scheme known at Trump University,» Schneiderman said in a statement.

Bitcoin meets all of the essential criteria for any asset - class bubble, including overtrading, a lack of regulation and the potential for swindles

It's not been long enough to get a really good picture of what the new KU payouts will bring, and my July month - to - date results are skewed by the fact that I ran a free BookBub promotion July 3 - 7 (Note: 34077 free downloads) for Swindle Town, Book 5 in my Gen Delacourt Mystery Series.

Some of these companies might be able to place guest posts and reviews on blogs that nobody visits (and only exist to host content for swindled authors).

KANSAS — United Airlines wrongly shipped a Kansas - bound pet dog to Japan, the second embarrassment this week for the airline and a «nightmare» for the Swindle family — who are moving from Oregon to Wichita with their beloved pet, a 10 - year - old German shepherd named Irgo.

Curve Digital (Thomas Was Alone) and Size Five Games have released a new dev video for The Swindle, a Steampunk Cybercrime Caper.

Dan Marshall — the developer responsible for The Swindle and Time Gentlemen, Please!

As the ruling showed, it would be impossible for the Swindle to have broken Ofcom's accuracy guidelines, because, while news programmes must be accurate, «there is no such requirement for other types of programming, including factual programmes of this type.»

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The syndrome, that feeling, this psychological deviation from a person's generally confident self, the inability to internalize achievements or accomplishments, the crediting them to luck, timing or unintended swindling has been around for sometime.

The person, who was not authorized to speak for attribution, said the office regularly hears from companies that are victims of similar phishing swindles involving fake suppliers, but the Facebook case stood out for its scale.

Two men in South Korea have been sentenced for building a bitcoin pyramid scheme that swindled around $ 20 million from investors.

Director Joe Rotunda of the TSSB Enforcement Division told ETHNews about how bad actors play confidence games like those used to swindle investors in conventional markets, but repackaged for the era of crypto:

Cops have confirmed that these people had swindled the President of a Tokyo based marketing company, with whom they have already been transacting for a couple of months, exchanging bitcoins and virtual currencies with cash.

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But Soros was probably swindling his fellow troopers for pocket money to buy swastikas.

Contrarian and negatory are you, and seemingly comatose is your mind, and a swindling swindler would only deceive himself; therefore I must forward to your challenging signs a tweeted weiner for you to bond with, and may you awake in a stagnant pool of chords.

This is an important skill for humans — it's what keeps us from being swindled, among other things.

On the other hand, it was a small debacle compared to the time Riggs got taken by a corporate thief in Manhattan for several hundred dollars on a repossessed automobile swindle, or the day in Miami he was cheated out of $ 3,000 when two well - known tennis pros conspired to throw a match he had bet heavily on.

However, when the victim returned with his wife for the key to the room two days later, they realized that they had been swindled.

According to the aggrieved victims, it is strange that, the opposition leader and his party mounted pressure on government over DKM Microfinance defrauding customers and called for a refund of deposits to the swindled customers, yet failed to demand same from their MP whose bank has gone bankrupt.

For my next project, Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle, I'm working with another director, Lee Skelly, on a documentary which will examine the failures and deception behind the social housing crisis.

As for lawyers, the so - called priests in the temple of justice, from the courtroom rookie to the silk, they are the contemporary equivalent of Eli's wayward sons, Hophni and Phineas, who turned their father's noble ministry into a heinous swindle.

In his alleged Deputy Police Commissioner position, Mr. Spiezio now has tried to swindle the Mount Vernon Taxpayers by requisition for Health Benefits from the City Comptroller.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said fraudsters were looking for a way to swindle the government as they have approached his government for money in order...

Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) on Thursday disowned a job recruitment firm swindling unsuspecting applicants on the guise of recruiting for the agency.

In 2013, Schneiderman's office sued Donald Trump for allegedly swindling thousands of innocent Americans out of millions of dollars through enrollment at Trump University.

An herbalist, Adeniyi Adewunmi, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly swindling an ailing businessman out of N190m.

The former Ramapo town supervisor for 16 years was found guilty of 20 out of 22 counts of securities fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy for inflating the town's assets in order to swindle investors to build Rockland Boulder Stadium in May.

Silver, 72, is currently out on bail while he appeals his 12 - year prison sentence for abusing his lofty position in the State Senate to swindle millions in kickbacks and bribes.

Families for Excellent Schools CEO Jeremiah Kitteredge says the numbers show that Mayor de Blasio is swindling students of privately run, publicly funded charter schools.

A member who plays fast and loose with his campaign account, who cheats a not - for - profit agency out of money his family swindled from it, who makes himself a flashing red target for U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara?

Nojay, 59, was indicted for fraud in Cambodia for allegedly swindling a dentist there out of $ 1 million.

She also recalled that state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced a lawsuit against Charter and its subsidiary, Spectrum Management Holdings, for allegedly conducting a «deliberate» scheme to swindle and deceive New Yorkers by promising internet service that it knew it could not provide.

Swindles argues the SCPs are a marker for the start of the Anthropocene.

Swindles even has a spot that might make for a good location to host a golden spike in the geologic timescale: Malham Tarn, the highest glacial lake in England situated in the Yorkshire Dales.

That is the implication of a series of rulings by Ofcom, the regulatory body for responsible for upholding broadcast standards in the UK, on complaints made about a British TV documentary called The Great Global Warming Swindle.

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Police in Bern are warning against the threat of fraudsters who have swindled 440,000 francs ($ 445,000) out of people looking for love on internet dating sites and social media.

We hear about romance scams and sweetheart swindles, so I truly wanted to provide that truly safe and private forum for dating and meeting people.

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Sydney feels compassion for the young man and later takes him to Reno to learn how to swindle a casino to make himself more money.

This oddly named but inestimable DVD outfit deserves a shout - out for its industrious and often wondrous efforts as a quality clearinghouse for niche titles that might otherwise fall through the cracks, from music docs (The Great Rock»n' Roll Swindle) to classic television (Freaks and Geeks, SCTV, priceless Dick Cavett collections devoted to film, rock music, and comedy), and definitive comedy compilations (Steve Martin, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor).

Special Award: Brattle Theater, on its 100th anniversary, «for maintaining the tradition of revival film programming in the Boston area and for its commitment to quality prints and projection» (the Globe's language, not necessarily the BSFC's) Special Award: The Coolidge Corner Theater Foundation and Friends in Support of the Somerville Theater, «for their efforts to preserve historic theaters as sites for alternative film programming» (ditto) Best Discovery or Rediscovery: The Great Rock»n' Roll Swindle (Temple), The Dybbuk (Waszynski), Coonskin (Bakshi), restored Lawrence of Arabia (Lean), Carnival of Souls (Hervey) Best Film Series: The West Rides Again (Museum of Fine Arts), The Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer (MFA), The Boston Jewish Film Festival (MFA), The Films of Anna Magnani (MFA), and The Films of John Cassavetes (Harvard Film Archive)