bilked
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This program was essentially built to be bilked, so it’s amusing that the state is now complaining that this is what’s happening.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
The indictment does not name the California politician whose campaign fund the trio allegedly bilked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025
In charges unrelated to Butina’s work, Erickson was sentenced to seven years in prison for schemes in which he bilked investors in fraudulent real estate developments and at eldercare homes.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2024
Others fell for the ruse and were bilked out of a few hundred dollars.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 30, 2023
Then Antony Harrison told us all his campaigns in the Peninsula, and that capital story how he bilked the tavern-keeper in Portsmouth.
From Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 by Various
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