Word: swindler
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...through the recovery of stolen goods that Abscam started. It grew out of a rather routine undercover scheme in the New York area to recover stolen securities and paintings. In return for a favorable recommendation to reduce his sentence, FBI agents persuaded Mel Weinberg, a convicted swindler, to help them get thieves to resell their loot to the FBI'S fake fences. The agents used the ruse of claiming to represent a Middle East sheik interested in purchasing the stolen goods...
Though studies have shown that the rate of violent and sexual crimes is lower among gypsies than among the German population as a whole, they remain marked as dangerous people, as well as chronic pickpockets and con men. Tellingly, the German name for gypsy, Zigeuner, literally means "wandering swindler." Complains Romani Rose, a German gypsy activist: "If a sandwich is missing in the schoolroom, a gypsy child gets blamed...
...purse, she had a simple explanation: "I was hungry. I was desperate." Mrs. Schultz, 91, subsists on $233 a month, from Social Security and her late husband's military pension. She had once saved $5,000, but all except $10 was taken from her in 1973 by a swindler. Last month, after paying her rent and utilities, she had nothing left for food...
...what you eat. In the case of Peter Lazaros, 44, convicted perjurer and suspected bank swindler, his last meal revealed another unpalatable identity: jewel thief...
...through a maze of allegedly Mob-infiltrated enterprises. According to Truscott, Charles Allen in 1955 bought a 25% stake in a Bahamian company that controlled a casino that was "manipulated" by Crime Boss Meyer Lansky, and one of Allen's partners in the venture was Wallace Groves, a convicted swindler. Then, aided by funds from his Bahamian operation, Allen formed an alliance with Producer Ray Stark and proceeded to take control of the small Canadian movie and TV producer called Seven Arts. Next, Allen acquired Warner Bros. The acquisitions seem innocent enough, but Truscott manages to impart a suspicion that...