swindling [
'swɪndl.]
[法] 欺骗, 诈骗
Swindle \Swin"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swindled}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Swindling}.] [See {Swindler}.]
To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to
swindle a man out of his property.
Lammote . . . has swindled one of them out of three
hundred livres. --Carlyle.
- The court acquitted Gaston Portofaix, the financial manager of El Sayed's former company Fermenta AB, on four counts of swindling.
- Whether ordering prison time or probation, federal judges in Manhattan who have meted out sentences in the crackdown have decried financial swindling and said they were "sending a message" to Wall Street.
- Mrs. Holzer is accused of swindling two men, investment counselor Brian Griffiths and furniture dealer Jack Vallega, out of $280,000. But Morgenthau said at least 26 investors gave her money and he suspects she took them for millions of dollars.
- He combined successful swindling with high moral reputation and a benevolent career. A city commentator wrote: 'Never was money obtained with more wicked subtlety; never was it spent more charitably.
- Bakker is accused of swindling millions of dollars from followers.
- Mr. Mann is a felon convicted by Canadian courts in 1984 of swindling a dying widow out of $65,000, Toronto court records show.
- A former university official was indicted on charges of swindling money and giving it to athletes; the school's popular athletic director, Paul Giel, was fired.
- Charles H. Keating Jr., whose lavish lifestyle and risky investments helped make him a symbol of the savings and loan crisis, was led away in shackles after he was charged with swindling junk-bond investors.
- I'm a thrill seeker." According to information that surfaced after his arrest in February on charges of swindling a couple out of $4,000, Hunt also masqueraded as a fighter pilot, building contractor, baseball player and Marine captain.
- CHICAGO _ The scandal that shook the futures industry moves to a federal courtroom where three of the 47 indicted traders will fight charges they bought and sold the integrity of the marketplace by swindling public customers.
- According to the letter, the father threw the bonds at his son in disgust, saying: "I have never been able to do anything with these swindling Soviet SOBs.
- He is charged with swindling more than $200 million from the Bank of Crete to build a publishing empire and buy a top Greek soccer team.
- Tokyo prosecutors arrested an ex-official of a steel-trading concern and three directors of a bankrupt steel processor on suspicion of swindling two other firms out of $26.4 million.
- The Chinese press meanwhile today reported investigations into several major corruption cases, keeping up the publicity around its drive to root out profiteering, swindling and bribery.