At worst it looked like a stock swindle built on a mountain of mathematical nonsense.
Individual preference aside, the Internet depends on the free flow of information, Swindle argues.
While continuing to serve in the Marines, Swindle earned an MBA from Florida State University.
Swindle left home to attend Georgia Tech, earning a degree in industrial management in 1959.
Swindle returned to Hawaii, where he had been living with his second wife, Angie, since 1989.
Lottery fraud is an old con, but experts say Jamaicans have proven very adept at the swindle.
When McCain called Swindle about the job, Swindle first had to figure out exactly what the commission did.
Even by Latin American standards, the collapse of Baninter, as it was known, amounts to an unusually large swindle.
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Orson Swindle, along with former Navy pilot Carl Smith, who served with him.
Swindle "will come up with answers to problems we address that will surprise you, " says FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky.
Swindle's maverick streak might come from his strong grandmother who raised him in the small town of Camilla, Ga.
In the meantime, Swindle doesn't mind being the lone voice in the crowd.
Her biggest film acting credit appears to be in Tom Sizemore's "Swindle, " a 2002 crime thriller, according to the IMDb.
Belgian Green MEP Philippe Lambert agreed, saying that that operators' margins were still too big, and amounted to a "swindle".
Swindle is the only nonlawyer on the FTC, which, he claims, allows him to approach issues from a citizen's perspective.
Where privacy advocates see the specter of a corporate Big Brother gathering details on consumers' every move, Swindle sees enterprise thriving.
The lawsuit is on behalf of investors who bought shares inflated by a swindle and sold them after the swindle was exposed.
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Nuhu Ribadu, head of Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, said the swindle took place over a four-year period starting in 1995.
If left alone, the Internet industry will resolve its problems, Swindle insists.
Privacy advocates think their movement is reaching a critical mass and that Swindle is holding on to a well-intentioned but ultimately doomed ideal.
"My old friend Ross Perot asked me to help and I was impressed by his capacity to get people involved" in politics, Swindle says.
With the likelihood of legislative battles over privacy erupting next year, Swindle is emerging as the Internet industry's point person on the FTC for self-regulation.
His colleagues and observers say Swindle adds balance to the panel.
Swindle's message to e-commerce firms: Shape up or face the consequences.
Swindle ended up serving as a district chairman in the state.
It called for a total overhaul of the oil ministry and for the prosecution of companies and some powerful individuals who had benefited from the swindle.
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He said criminals there were holding filing parties, at which they would haul out laptops and, for a fee, teach others how to run the swindle.
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French Customs officers spotted the swindle and called in investigators.
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