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The 33-year-old fintech entrepreneur last month was sentenced to seven years in prison for swindling JPMorganChase, which purchased her student financial-aid startup in 2021 for $175 million.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025

He invoked a past prosperity, but his actual plans are to make a fortune by swindling the rest of us.

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2025

National Police chief Yasuhiro Tsuyuki, at a meeting Monday of top prefectural criminal investigators, said “tokuryu” have been part of surging cases of swindling via social media and have become a “serious concern.”

From Seattle Times • May 17, 2024

Anderson, the investors discovered, is a convicted con artist who started swindling people at least three decades ago.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2023

A Greek from the delta trading center of Nau- cratis, Cleomenes was an ambiguous Boss Tweed-like figure, chiefly remembered for swindling Egyptians and Greeks alike of enormous sums of money.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro