All told, Wu was accused of swindling 65.2 billion yuan.
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But Politico's Matthew Nussbaum sees Trump's swindling as a governing strategy.
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All evidence suggests that Ms. Wexler finds swindling a turn on.
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Her political opponents accuse her swindling voters by rigging her government's finances.
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The article said the firm had earned huge profits by swindling patients.
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The police did not say how many people Mr. Neu was accused of swindling.
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Her swindling ways were described in great detail by Vanity Fair and New York magazine.
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His poor treatment of workers, and his penchant for lying and swindling, were well-known.
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His latest series of tweets about Amazon swindling "the United States Post Office" is particularly deceptive.
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He was convicted in 2008 of fraud and swindling investors out of more than $300 million.
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In 2012, he was accused of mutilating and swindling more than 120 of his former patients.
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Nasyrova fled to New York after she was accused of swindling the woman out of her money.
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Liliane Bettencourt, the L'Oréal heiress and richest woman in the world, was vexed by a swindling case.
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Banks pleaded guilty in April 2017 to one count of wire fraud in swindling Tim Duncan of millions.
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Grifting — AKA the act of swindling, often by pretending to be someone you aren't — is having a moment.
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An explosive report in Forbes magazine accused Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross of swindling his associates out of $120 million.
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All three of those movies were about scams — people swindling customers with cheap penny stocks and worthless swampland in Florida.
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Astor's only son, was accused of swindling millions of dollars from his mother after she was found to have dementia.
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Laurie is now dating Kevin's neighbor John, and the two of them are swindling tourists by pretending to be psychics.
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She's infamous for pretending to be a German heiress and swindling a bank employee out of $100,000, among other crimes.
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He also was accused, but acquitted of, swindling money from another drug company he founded, Retrophin, to repay those investors.
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"In terms of swindling people out of their homes, or taking their homes, I've never really had that issue," he said.
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If that's not a recipe for swindling the middle class and loosening loopholes for the wealthy, I don't know what is.
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However, do recent events show that the unscrupulous with avaricious intentions have no trouble swindling the system to gain financial advantages?
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"Corinthian wasn't the first predatory college that got caught swindling students, and frankly it won't be the last," Warren told the committee.
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If anything, she seems eager to deploy her black-belt swindling skills to persuade the bar that it has made a mistake.
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Anna Sorokin, convicted of swindling New York's elite out of more than $22016,2281, turned court proceedings in Manhattan into quite the spectacle.
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Back in March, McFarland pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud, effectively swindling over 80 investors out of a collective $26 million.
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So far they're a market leader in a market that seems to only exist for the purpose of swindling money out of investors.
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Think hunter-gatherers, Crusaders, shrieking Dothraki hordes, or, more reasonably, Dust Bowl circus carnies, traveling town to town, entertaining (and swindling) the rubes.
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Through the complaint, Eastwood wants remedy for "swindling through outright usurpation, covert intellectual property transfers, and corporate shell games," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Ashley Bemis is accused of swindling people out of more than $2,000 in donations of cash, clothing and camping equipment, according to NBC News.
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Alice's team knows Ben's face, and besides, the three have a new con: swindling the guardian of a Middle Eastern heiress named Princess Zara.
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And the other version illustrates how decades of imprecision and swindling have made it very difficult to sort out real Hitler paintings from knockoffs.
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Black, 74, was convicted in 20183 of obstruction of justice and fraud for swindling shareholders of his company, Hollinger International, out of millions of dollars.
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McFarland got pleaded guilty to swindling investors out of $26 million, and is currently serving a six-year prison sentence in Orange County, New York.
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John's unwavering dedication to self-victimization also helps to explain why he loves swindling others so much in the first place: It makes him feel powerful.
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Madoff has spent 11 years in prison in connection to a multi-billion dollar fraudulent investment scheme in which he admitted to swindling thousands of clients.
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A line dancing scam has allegedly been taking south east Queensland, Australia, by storm, swindling retirees out of more than $120,373 [$84,853 USD], The Guardian reports.
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The main cast of hackers is a group of adorable goofballs, and missions have you doing things like racing go-karts and swindling sleazy tech moguls.
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"I love you and believe in you," he emailed Allen Stanford in 2009, just hours after the banker was charged with swindling $7 billion from investors.
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In his next scheduled trial, also in Manhattan federal court, Avenatti is charged with swindling Daniels out of $300,000 in proceeds for a book she wrote.
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Gillian Neely and Youssif Kamal filed a 13-page complaint earlier this month against Eden Creamery LLC, accusing Halo Top's parent company of swindling the American consumer.
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"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.
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In December, a Chicago-based investigation called "Operation Gold Phish" led to the arrest of nine people who allegedly operated several different swindling schemes, including romance scams.
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By chance he meets "The Professor," a veteran conman who invites Lawrence to come alongside his daughter Sarah on a road trip, swindling "suckers" along the way.
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In addition to the Nike case, he is accused of swindling Daniels out of $300,000 in book proceeds and of stealing millions of dollars from other clients.
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As the social fabric decays, social isolation rises and online viciousness and swindling accumulate, you tell people that the state has to step in to restore trust.
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A former Alabama state legislator was sentenced to 60 years after swindling more than $240,000 out of Katrina victims in New Orleans for modular homes he never delivered.
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"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's statement said.
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The so-called Bettencourt affair initially centred on Francois-Marie Banier, a celebrity photographer whom Meyers-Bettencourt accused of swindling her mother of up to a billion euros.
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When things get bad, as they always do, the people grow restless and yield to a swindling demagogue who cultivates their fears and positions himself as the protector.
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Another pending lawsuit against the couple has been filed by the New York State attorney general's office, which accused the couple of "swindling" customers by hawking ailing dogs.
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The government has accused Shanxinhui of plotting, manipulating and persuading people into taking part in a pyramid scheme disguised as a charity and swindling them out of money.
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John McCain during the Keating Five banking scandal in which a group of lawmakers, including the Arizona Republican, accepted contributions from a wealthy banker ultimately accused of swindling investors.
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He made millions, and lost it all, infamously and fatally swallowing a cyanide pill in court after being convicted and sentenced to seven years in 1904 for swindling investors.
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The idea can be hard to stomach—a man currently serving time for swindling others out of their livelihood is still allowed to live it up in the city.
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He described how his team would show how Gates "did it" -- that is, handled much of Manafort's business dealings that the government says were criminal, while also swindling Manafort.
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This all tracks with Amazon's bread and butter web services and smart home products, as well as Trump's tweets that claimed the online retailer is swindling the U.S. Postal Service.
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"In 28503, 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.
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Instead of praising Cuba's literacy rate, he should be likening Havana directly to the kinds of regimes he's assailed elsewhere for swindling their populations and parking their illicit wealth abroad.
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Still, as the Honolulu Star-Advertiser points out, Zuckerberg is likely more interested in securing his land than he is in swindling Hawaiian land owners out of a few thousand dollars.
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"Mozambique AGO is indicting 18 defendants, (ranging) from public workers and other citizens, on charges of abuse of power, abuse of trust, swindling and money laundering," it said in a statement.
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Screenshot of a Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General about a 2015 investigation into fraud (DOD OIG)Do you know who was swindling the Defense Department in this case?
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The interesting part is that this is the first time it has been clued as the term for swindling someone online, which just goes to show you how times have changed.
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Masri said Najib would send his proxies to offer to buy the land at half the price and take on responsibility for obtaining the approvals, swindling people out of their livelihoods.
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Pearlman got in a heap of legal trouble in 2008 ... he was convicted of one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history, swindling 1,700 people out of half-a-billion bucks.
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The bombshell report accused Ross, who managed a private equity firm before joining the administration, of pathologically swindling his business associates out of their share of profits and misleading investors for decades.
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"Shinobu Tsukasa, the head of the Yamaguchi-gumi, is a puritan in the sense that he doesn't approve of making money by engaging in selling drugs or swindling old people," Adelstein said.
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The indictment accuses Shkreli of swindling $11 million out of the pharma company he founded, Retrophin, to pay off investors he was suspected of defrauding at hedge funds that he had previously run.
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But even as the social network's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has vowed to protect users better, his company has failed to stop scammers impersonating him from swindling people out of thousands of dollars.
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On Wednesday, a former assistant who reportedly worked for a Goldman Sachs exec was accused of swindling hundreds of bottles of wine from his boss to the tune of $1.2 million, Bloomberg reports.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Kenyan court charged seven men on Wednesday for impersonating President Uhuru Kenyatta and swindling a prominent businessman out of 10 million shillings ($100,000) in yet another high-profile corruption case.
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Article of the Day Article: India's Call-Center Talents Put to a Criminal Use: Swindling Americans Before Reading Have you ever gotten an unwanted sales or marketing call on your home or cellphone?
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Mike was reportedly the mastermind behind a large number of online scams, and officials suspect him of swindling more than $60 million from people around the world, including $15.4 million from one victim alone.
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Sick Boy accuses Renton of being "a tourist in your own past," but he himself is still mired in the muck of his life, abusing drugs, swindling people, and holding 20-year-old grudges.
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As an assistant US attorney, Matey prosecuted white-collar crime and health care fraud cases, including a 2009 case involving a financial adviser convicted of swindling his clients out of more than $9 million.
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Epstein's longtime friend and former romantic partner Maxwell is the daughter of late media tycoon Robert Maxwell, who died at sea under mysterious circumstances after swindling companies out of hundreds of millions of dollars.
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The Chinese police and the news media have in recent months issued warnings and reports accusing Shanxinhui of swindling small-time investors through extravagant promises paid for by luring in yet more gullible investors.
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But this town of 2,0003 residents has attracted a different sort of attention ever since the local dentist was accused in 2012 of mutilating and swindling more than 120 patients over the previous four years.
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But this town of 2700,2300 residents has attracted a different sort of attention ever since the local dentist was accused in 22017 of mutilating and swindling more than 220 patients over the previous four years.
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Google has tried to crack down on garage door repair scams (which are known for swindling consumers) and other fraud-heavy services such as locksmiths and plumbers by selling "guaranteed" listing ads in certain cities.
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Last May, she was sentenced to four years in prison for swindling New York's social elite and banks out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in her quest to make it in the big city.
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Update, 4:25pm: The New York Attorney General has issued a statement: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.
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Frank Tibo, a former chief tax officer at a bank where Mr. Shields and Mr. Mora worked, said American and British cum-ex traders regarded the Continent as a backwater of old economies ripe for swindling.
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I'd like to challenge state legislatures to start acting in good faith and taking common-sense measures to protect the vote while also encouraging it, rather than swindling Americans out of one of their most basic rights.
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By Ken Bensinger Four years ago, Ken Bensinger shed new light on a little-known US angle to the corruption scandal engulfing global soccer — the swindling suburban dad with the Santa Clause beard known as Chuck Blazer.
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The restaurateur, Hamlet Peralta, who owned the now-shuttered Hudson River Cafe in Harlem, pleaded guilty in May to swindling investors out of more than $12 million under the guise of operating a fictitious wholesale liquor business.
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She has been earning some of the best of reviews of her career for her role as the ringleader of a swindling group of strippers in "Hustlers," driving speculation that she could earn her first Academy Award.
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VILNIUS (Reuters) - A Lithuanian accused of swindling Facebook and Google out of more than $100 million through an email fraud scheme must be extradited to the United States to stand trial, a court in Vilnius ruled on Monday.
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The DOJ has found cause to indict Okada for three counts of swindling after he acquired "through mistake or fraud" $3.15 million in salary and consultancy fees during his tenure as chief executive of Manila casino operator Tiger Resort.
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As one of the most visited cities in the world, the central areas of the French capital throng with swindling street vendors, bistros, and brasseries that hawk faux "French" cuisine (underwhelming salads, dried-up waffles, dodgy-looking foie gras).
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Konstantin Ignatov, who runs OneCoin Ltd, and his older sister Ruja Ignatova, who co-founded OneCoin and is known as "Cryptoqueen," were accused of swindling investors coveting big returns and low risk, in a scheme conceived as a fraud.
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At a hearing on February 14th a Republican state senator asked whether the proposed law would allow someone to engineer their own wrongful conviction, serve time in prison and then prove their innocence, swindling the state out of a big payout.
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In their latest statement, police said the 43-year-old man, surnamed Liang, and the 45-year-old woman, surnamed Xie, had been swindling money from family and friends for years, and ran out of cash after traveling extensively across China.
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Crime It's Thanksgiving Day in Richard Lange's latest novel, THE SMACK (Mulholland/Little, Brown, $26), and Rowan Petty is doing what he always does on a national holiday and every other day — swindling gullible people out of their hard-earned cash.
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Avenatti, who is accused of swindling clients including porn star Stormy Daniels out of millions of dollars, was taken into custody during in a disciplinary hearing of the State Bar Court of California in Los Angeles, where he had been testifying.
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A wild story in The Hollywood Reporter documents an unknown woman who, for the past two and a half years, has been impersonating top female industry professionals and swindling her victims out of more than $50,000 — and she still hasn't been caught.
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VILNIUS (Reuters) - A Lithuanian judge said she wants more information from the United States before ruling on whether to extradite a Lithuanian national accused of swindling two U.S.-based Internet companies out of more than $100 million through an email fraud scheme.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lyndon LaRouche, a fringe political figure who fueled his eight presidential campaigns with conspiracies involving Queen Elizabeth, AIDS and communist spies before going to prison for swindling his supporters, died on Tuesday at the age of 21922, his political organization said.
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On Monday, October 20173, the Egypt Exploration Society (EES), a London-based nonprofit, released a statement accusing professor Dirk Obbink, an Oxford University papyrologist, of allegedly swindling 13 biblical texts on papyrus and parchment from its holdings and selling them to Hobby Lobby in 2010.
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Pressler's account of Delvey's swindling already has many trademarks of a Shondaland classic, with its ludicrous false identities, imprisonment (Delvey is currently being held without bail on Riker's Island), and an overall aura of high-stakes, high-glamour drama looming over the whole thing.
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A Commerce Secretary who acts like a cartoon version of a Wall Street fat cat, awash in financial conflicts, intertwined with Russian financial interests, suspected of swindling millions from his business partners and using his official position to pump up his fortune through shady stock trading.
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The deal would notably benefit Italian savers forced to buy bank shares in exchange for mortgages in what appears to have been fraudulent transactions, but its critics say it is unlikely that all those entitled to claim compensation under the wealth criterion were victims of swindling.
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The crimes spanned six provinces and regions, including Shanxi and Inner Mongolia — two of China's biggest coal-mining areas — and charges included faking accidents, swindling compensation, homicide, fraud and concealing crimes, prosecutors from Inner Mongolia said in a statement on Monday that was widely reported on Tuesday.
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Madoff, who had headed Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities in New York City, pleaded guilty in 2009 to 11 crimes related to the swindling of billions of dollars from thousands of investors over several decades in what prosecutors have called the largest Ponzi scheme in history.
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Accused financial fraudster Andrew Caspersen lost a staggering $230 million by compulsively gambling on put options in the S&P 1133 index from February until his arrest in March for swindling investors out of what allegedly totaled more than $400 million, it was revealed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court.
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In the pending criminal case in California that was the subject of the bail revocation, Avenatti last year was charged in a 36-count indictment accusing him of tax crimes, wire fraud and perjury, with Los Angeles federal prosecutors accusing him of swindling clients out of millions of dollars.
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Michael Avenatti on Tuesday proclaimed himself to be an innocent man at a double-header of arraignments in New York federal court on charges of trying to extort sneaker giant Nike out of more than $20 million, and of swindling his porn star client Stormy Daniels out of about $300,000 in book sales.
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Destiny (Constance Wu) and Ramona (Jennifer Lopez), in particular, are stand-ins for real-life hustlers Roselyn Keo and Samantha Barbash, respectively, the two women at the center of a 2015 New York Magazine article, "The Hustlers At Scores," about their exploits swindling hundreds of thousands of dollars from rich Wall Street men.
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" During a speech in August, Warren described one such official, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, as a "cartoon version of a Wall Street fat cat, awash in financial conflicts, intertwined with Russian financial interests, suspected of swindling millions from his business partners and using his official position to pump up his fortune through shady stock trading.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lou Pearlman, a former music mogul who launched the careers of boy bands the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC, died on Friday at age 62 while serving a 25-year prison sentence for swindling investors and banks out of more than $300 million, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said on its web site.
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"It is necessary to conduct an in-depth review, alongside a serious investigation over whether Baidu's business is legal, of why, despite prohibitions and supervision, a number of Putian system medical institutions can still rely on swindling to become a formidable presence in China's medical market," The Beijing News wrote in a commentary on Tuesday.
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Democrats or House Freedom Caucus members, NATO members or Middle East dictators, potential allies or adversaries — all must be deeply unsettled by the one clear pattern emerging here, a pattern that is consistent with Mr. Trump's treatment of others in private life, from his stiffing of his creditors to his swindling of students at Trump University: betrayal.
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KaDee Strickland plays Charlie's wife and partner in swindling the unsuspecting; Leah Gibson is his sister; and Isabella Rossellini and Angus Sampson are the mother-and-son Roma bosses who control the assortment of psychic parlors that Charlie runs in Los Angeles — and who savor exacting Old World vengeance on those who would dare to cheat them.
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The charges stem from a huge coupon scam authorities say Mellie and her hubby were involved in back in 2017 ... in which she was accused of swindling thousands of dollars worth of gear from Toys "R" Us and Babies "R" Us. The good news (for her, anyway) -- Fayette County Assistant Commonwealth Attorney Prosecutor Andrea Williams tells TMZ ... 3 other charges Mellie was facing in the bust were dropped per the terms of a plea deal.
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Meanwhile, the president is exiting 2017 with a Twitter tour de force: He again falsely claimed the tax bill's repeal of the individual mandate "essentially Repeals (over time)" Obamacare; tweeted fake math about his administration's gains against ISIS, deleted that tweet and replaced it with the correct version, and later retweeted another version of the tweet with the same bad math; revived his feud with Vanity Fair; and accused Amazon of swindling the US Postal Service.
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This case has everything: nepotism, money laundering, telecom deregulation, "There Will Be Blood"–style land swindling, a crooked evangelical megachurch, under-vetted federal appointees and political corruption that goes all the way up to the racist AG. (It also involves a mole or wiretap in the Southern District, since the moneyman whom Chuck targets receives a tip that nearly enables him to escape the Feds; I'm a lot more worried about this than Chuck himself appears to be.) Success here would make taking down Bobby Axelrod look like issuing a parking violation.
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TMZ broke the story ... Mellie pled guilty earlier this year to 2 felonies -- theft by deception and criminal possession of a forged instrument -- and the charges stemmed from a huge coupon scam authorities say she executed with her husband, including swindling thousands of dollars in merchandise from Toys R Us and Babies R Us. According to the terms of her probation ... Mellie must meet with her probation officer, she can't own a firearm, she has to stay away from drugs and alcohol, she'll be tested for substance abuse, and she's got to cough up the dough for all the items she stole with bogus coupons -- a cool $18,075.
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All of this was in keeping with their detailed itinerary, curated by Robert and Co. Some highlights: Stan and Maggie posing with Elmo on Forty-second Street, Elmo swindling Ron of twenty bucks; Ron and Lisa and Stan and Maggie standing in the wrong line for the ferry; Ron and Stan climbing to the crown of the Statue of Liberty, Ron sweating, Stan disgusted; Maggie at Ellis Island counting every exhaled breath over the course of a half hour until Ron begged her to please stop, sweetheart; Lisa getting teary thinking of her great-grandparents at the Immigration Museum while Ron focussed on a nearby woman, in particular her New World cleavage; Stan pretending to be an airplane in front of the 9/11 Memorial, Ron horrified and chasing after him, briefly resembling the second airplane; Ron and Lisa and Stan and Maggie waiting an hour for cheeseburgers and noodle kugel, Maggie and Stan panicking over their devices' dwindling battery percentages, Ron staring into the ominously innocuous distance.
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