One fellow went to jail for soliciting funds without mentioning he was already a convicted swindler.

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The most common trait of affinity swindler is that he is usually shameless.

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The SEC has brought stock fraud charges against convicted stock swindler Tommy Quinn, alleging he was behind a scam called Sundance Gold Mining Exploration Inc.

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As befits a Swiss bank, UBP keeps an ultra discreet and risk-averse profile, with liquidity exceeding regulatory requirements, but in 2008 it shocked the banking establishment when its clients emerged as major victims of swindler Bernard Madoff.

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Emerging from the world of penny stock operators, the company survived a cast of dubious financiers during the late eighties and early nineties: a Genovese crime family-associated broker, a Ponzi schemer and a stock swindler, whose firm inspired the movie Boiler Room, none of whose wrongdoings was related to BioReference or Grodman.

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