It was particularly rampant during the Civil War unsurprisingly given that increased military spending provided new opportunities for ill-gotten profits, and many defense contractors took advantage of that environment to swindle the military.
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Belgian Green MEP Philippe Lambert agreed, saying that that operators' margins were still too big, and amounted to a "swindle".
Carol McCain worked for Nancy Reagan during the 1980 presidential campaign and introduced Swindle to the man running Reagan's campaign in Georgia.
The White House ordered Swindle to apologize, but the uproar helped mobilize Republicans in a campaign that eventually forced Wright to step down.
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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Swindle returned to Hawaii, where he had been living with his second wife, Angie, since 1989.
Even by Latin American standards, the collapse of Baninter, as it was known, amounts to an unusually large swindle.
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We are tired of being an unwilling party to what appears to be a deliberate attempt to deceive voters and swindle investors.
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Her biggest film acting credit appears to be in Tom Sizemore's "Swindle, " a 2002 crime thriller, according to the IMDb.
Swindle left home to attend Georgia Tech, earning a degree in industrial management in 1959.
When McCain called Swindle about the job, Swindle first had to figure out exactly what the commission did.
His colleagues and observers say Swindle adds balance to the panel.
While continuing to serve in the Marines, Swindle earned an MBA from Florida State University.
Privacy advocates think their movement is reaching a critical mass and that Swindle is holding on to a well-intentioned but ultimately doomed ideal.
Swindle's message to e-commerce firms: Shape up or face the consequences.
Come the Bush administration, Swindle "was not invited to stay, " he recalls with a chuckle - perhaps because he favored Rep. Jack Kemp as Reagan's VP over George Bush.
The truth is there is a seller for every buyer, so any big pension fund is just as likely to have made money off of a swindle as the other way around.
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"My old friend Ross Perot asked me to help and I was impressed by his capacity to get people involved" in politics, Swindle says.
Swindle "will come up with answers to problems we address that will surprise you, " says FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky.
Swindle is the only nonlawyer on the FTC, which, he claims, allows him to approach issues from a citizen's perspective.
Swindle didn't stay long, and Empower America became known for its high salaries paid to executives and its feuds with other Republicans.
Mr Islamov has a minutely itemised account of his unremunerated work, scale drawings of the dacha, and a hospital report about the damage to his ribs from the alleged beating, plus copies of his fruitless correspondence with local prosecutors about the swindle.
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