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Under the tax code’s current wording, the IRS said it doesn’t matter if it’s the taxpayer who is trying to bilk the IRS or if it’s a third party like an accountant.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

Sanberg pleaded guilty in October to the federal charges of conspiring to bilk investors out of $248 million for portraying the now-defunct Aspiration as a “socially-conscious and sustainable banking services and investment products” firm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

State subsidies are paid directly to child-care providers, which could enable fraudsters to set up fly-by-night day care to bilk the government.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

Growing up in Washington State, she was in a community production of “The Music Man,” another show about a slick con man trying to bilk small towners.

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2023

“My own case exactly,” said I. “Here, let’s bilk them,” said he.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

She soon falls prey to a shady scheme that bilks her out of a large sum of money.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2021

Attempting to escape her, Sally encounters another nightmare creature, who bilks her of much of her small stash of money with a sob story that’s clearly bogus.

From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2017

Who is it will not dare himself to trust?Who is it hath not strength to stand alone?Who is it thwarts and bilks the inward MUST?He and his works, like sand from earth are blown.

From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Grimké, Archibald Henry

"That bilks Mr. Barrett!" he said; and the baffling of Barrett continued to afford him mirth for an hour.

From Widdershins by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

You larn that go off of they there Frenchy bilks?

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

A company she registered bilked the state of more than $14 million from 2019 to 2024 by pretending to provide necessary treatment, prosecutors alleged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 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

Prosecutors alleged Miller-Whitehead bilked a parishioner out of $90,000 in retirement savings by falsely promising he would find her a home and invest the rest in his real estate business.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2024

The best proof of this wholesomeness is that Masayoshi Son, who lost billions on WeWork, said after the fact that he still loved and respected the founder who had bilked him.

From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2023

And tonight, when her play went to pieces, just as we'd planned it should, she saw how she'd been bilked and lost her head....

From Joan Thursday by Vance, Louis Joseph

The fraudulent enterprises didn’t provide legitimate public services, though they did employ people—in the service of bilking the government.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2026

Not the cancer part, or the charity bilking, but if the recipes weren’t good, the app wouldn’t have been such a hit, right?

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2025

The district attorney accused Fountaine of bilking investors out of millions through his schemes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2024

In April, he admitted committing federal securities fraud for bilking investors including friends stemming from that same case, and was ordered in May to pay restitution.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2023

There were only a few vendors, and all were engaged in harried negotiations with rebels, lean and sullen and above all bored, jostling and shoving and bilking as a way to pass the time.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer