Related Clues:

• Swindle; steer
• A scam and this puzzle's theme
• Caught working fiddle
• Deceive; prisoner
• Swindle after winning trust
• Prisoner on good terms with officer
• Frequent tempo follower on scores
• Grifter's action
• Word often following a tempo
• Voting 62-Down
• Is held captive at home with the wife
• Pen person
• Felonious "artist"
• Sell a bridge to, say?
• Con pound out of business when procuring rug