Sentences with phrase «who swindle»

So - called scammers (swindlers, who swindle money from people on dating.

He hung out with tax collectors (Romans who swindled the Jewish people of their money) and other questionable people.

Harold Smith, the promoter who swindled a bank out of $ 21.3 million, is back in boxing, guiding Larry Holmes

He further revealed that the Economic and Organised Crime Organisation (EOCO) has managed to retrieve almost GHC 50 million from people who swindled the state in various deals.

Oskar Schindler, who swindles the Third Reich, and Amon Goeth, who represents its pure evil, are men created by the opportunities of war.

Ben Stiller is starring as the overworked manager of a luxury tower building, who, along with his staff, plots to get financial revenge on the crooked Wall Street fat cat (Alda) who swindled them out of their life savings with a Ponzi scheme, and now happens to be under house arrest in their building with his ill - gotten gains.

Rating: NR Year: 1965 Cast: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer Director: Henry Hathaway Three men return home to attend their mother's funeral and take care of business with the man who swindled their parents into giving their inheritance away.

Determined to pursue her latest film project she sees Vilko (Shen), a con man who swindles celebrities, on a talk show and proceeds to offer him a role in her next movie.

Converging on Las Vegas, the guys are out to wreak revenge on Willy Banks (Al Pacino), an unscrupulous hotel owner who swindled their friend Rueben Tishkoff (Elliot Gould) out of his share of a new high - rise casino being built on the Sin City Strip and caused the old man to suffer a debilitating heart attack.

The earliest known reference being in an anthology of fables from 1052 that tells of a dishonest merchant who swindles the king by pretending to weave a supernatural garment that can not be seen or touched by any person of illegitimate birth.

I'd like to see Amazon take a hard line against John Locke, Stephen Leather & other authors who swindled readers w / fraudulent reviews.

Jobb tells the true story of Leo Koretz, a silver - tongued attorney from the Roaring»20s who swindled Chicagoans, Bernie Madoff - style, through a get - rich - quick investment scheme.

You will also learn who swindled him for all of his biscuits (seriously).

Not exact matches

When the Justice Department announced the arrest last month of a man who allegedly swindled more than $ 100 million from two U.S. tech giants, the news came wrapped in a mystery.

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.

The folks who financed the Vietnam War deficits got burned the worst — the triumphant return of double - digit inflation swindled them out of nearly a third of the return they were owed from their US Treasury bonds.

The challenge faced by those who conduct professional swindles and stings is that such schemes burn through victims.

Yes, to be sure, it is a fact that there was a man who with the years forgot his childish fear of God, was swindled out of the best, and was taken in by that which was most insolent.

The Truth is we would not be so quick to react to the greedy, swindling, idolatrous, sexually immoral, slandering, drunkard people who claim to be our brothers and sisters in Christ (or to ourselves).

And then those who were swindled out of their lives savings, had their lives, their children's lives, and their faith ruined, they can cast the next stones.

The outrage among Obama's erstwhile Jewish supporters, as reflected daily in Marty Peretz» blog The Spine, on the website of The New Republic, is heightened by the sense of wounded self - esteem felt by clever people who have just been swindled.

Disney ultimately offered refunds to parents who had essentially been swindled by false advertising.

The statement further warned the general public against middlemen who often swindle potential applicants claiming to help them get listed in the service.

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.

They include two police officers Constable Ruth Agyiri, 27, of the Central Police Station in Koforidua, who allegedly swindled a victim of Gh cents 1,500, and Corporal Gideon Sarpong.

Ghanaian footballer by name Reindolf Otoo claims he has been swindled by a business man who also plays the role of a...

Ghanaian footballer by name Reindolf Otoo claims he has been swindled by a business man who also plays the role of a football agent called Markus Bortieh.

They include two police officers Constable Ruth Agyiri, 27, of the Central Police Station in Koforidua, who allegedly swindled a victim of GHS1500, and Corporal Gideon Sarpong.

Samuel Pierre, a Brooklyn state Senate candidate who pleaded guilty to swindling immigrants out of thousands of dollars, claims in campaign literature that he's the victim because his case left him «shaken.»

The CP further said that a suspect, who attempted to capitalize on the situation to swindle the parents of the students by asking that they should bring ransom to Abeokuta, was arrested and is currently in police custody.

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?

Editor: «who is swindling who» is NOT grammatically correct, but being adequately unambiguous syntactically, it is fully excusable English; «who is swindling whom», or, switching to passive voice, «who is being swindled by whom» are correct.

People avoid dealing with characters who have swindled them in the past, and — according to new research — birds avoid those people, too.

There are a lot of smooth talkers who want to swindle you from your hard - earned cash.

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.

The sweetheart swindle scam, also known as the Nigerian romance scam is one that focuses on manipulating the emotions of a person who is seeking love online.

A Ghanaian fraudster who posed as an American major general to swindle thousands of pounds from lonely British women he met through online dating sites has been jailed.

Who would know better about how to deal with online scams and swindles.

Made when he was just twenty - nine, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's twenty - second feature, Fox and His Friends, showcases the New German Cinema icon in front of the camera as a working - class gay man who wins the lottery and falls prey to a swindling, bou...

The film will star Rebel Wilson and Anne Hathaway as women from different social classes who fight to swindle a naive tech whizz out of his fortune in a «loser leaves town» contest.

Juan is the con - man with loyalty and a sense of family, who does it all to help his father and who winces whenever Marcos, the con - man without scruples, swindles even old ladies out of their money.

Anne Hathway and Rebel Wilson will star in a remake of the Steve Martin and Michael Kaine comedy classic Dirty Rotten Scoundrels which tells the story of two con artists who try to swindle -LSB-...]

More elaborately, Ficarra and Requa give huge scenes to veteran actors B.D. Wong, (Law & Order: SVU) as a high - stakes gambler at the (don't call it a Super Bowl, because the NFL wasn't licensed) AFFA League Championship, and Gerald McRaney (Major Dad) as security agent Owens, a push broom - mustached advisor to a European racing millionaire (Rodrigo Santoro) who has hired Nick to swindle a competitor and ensure his team's victory.

A Princeton grad student who believes he's been swindled travels to Costa Rica to confront an online gambling tycoon and is seduced by the man's promise of wealth.

Her Carla is a walking ball of id in a crimped side - pony — a chronically unfiltered, sexually voracious salon waxer who meets her unlikely match in Ty Swindle (This Is Us» Justin Hartley) a sweet - tempered fireman - slash - stripper built like a tripod with abs.

Also straying from that site's top demographic, $ 5 a Day is aimed at adult viewers who are willing to consider things like mortality and family while also appreciating a good room service swindle.

His name is Porter (Mel Gibson), a small - time hood who is swindled out of $ 70,000 and left for dead by fellow crook Val (Gregg Henry) and Porter's own junkie wife, Lynn (Deborah Kara Unger).

The three most interesting characters are the gun - wielding, end - of - the rope Kyle; his pissed - with - a-twist girlfriend played by Emily Meade (who provides the film a lift when it's needed); and Caitriona Balfe as Diane Lester, the communications officer for the evil corporation at the heart of the swindle.

«Fox and His Friends» is Fassbinder's 1975 film in which the director stars as a man who wins the lottery, gaining him access to a different social class, where he is summarily swindled.

It's a star - studded cast, but Edward Burns (Ash Wednesday, Saving Private Ryan) is front and center, as grifter Jake Vig, who has assembled a crew of swindling thieves to hustle hundreds of thousands of dollars from unsuspecting dupes.