bilked
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Federal prosecutors say dozens of people bilked taxpayers by setting up scam social-services companies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025
From those schools, 10 teachers were bilked out of roughly $7,000 in credit card charges, Ware said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2025
Others fell for the ruse and were bilked out of a few hundred dollars.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 30, 2023
Attorney General Kris Mayes and Gov. Katie Hobbs in May announced a massive investigation into billing fraud that state officials say has bilked Arizona out of hundreds of millions of Medicaid dollars.
From Washington Times • Oct. 19, 2023
Falstaff and Tom Jones have survived the gamekeepers whom Shakspeare cudgelled and the landladies whom Fielding bilked.
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
