bilk

People signed up their pets, used aliases and played games with mailing addresses to bilk the company out of new releases for less than the cost of a penny.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026

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 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 ● Jun. 2, 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

"And you wouldn't bilk the angel when he handed in his bill?" he went on.

From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Lloyd Osbourne

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

She makes you her servant; and when pay-day comes round, she bilks you: that is what you mean.

From Heartbreak House by Bernard Shaw

While villany the scourge of justice bilks, Howl on, ye ruffians!

From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan

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

From Widdershins by Oliver [pseud.] Onions

In recent years, the Federal Trade Commission has taken enforcement action against several operations that it said bilked consumers out of millions of dollars with the lure of effortless money.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Twenty-one people are facing charges as part of a massive hospice fraud scheme that prosecutors say bilked California’s medical system out of $267 million.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

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

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 Louis Joseph Vance

Prosecutors last fall brought charges against a 28-year-old Minnesotan woman in a similar scheme that included bilking the government for meals and transportation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 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

In 2023, he admitted committing federal securities fraud for bilking investors, including friends stemming from that same case, served four months in jail and was ordered to pay restitution.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

Lawmakers wondered whether employees are bilking the government by claiming a 32% enhanced pay rate for jobs listed as working in the District, even though they are working remotely.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 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