bilk
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Eight people were arrested and 15 were charged in an alleged scheme to bilk more than $50 million in healthcare funds by running sham hospice facilities across Southern California, federal officials announced Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026
The numbers out of Minnesota are staggering: Three separate plots to bilk welfare programs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
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
Costello wouldn’t be the only former Washingtonian accused of fabricating his résumé to bilk investors.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2022
He's dug up proof that the real Willa Murdaugh died and she is just a trapper's daughter from the wilds somewhere, whom that gambler adopted in order to bilk the estate later.
From The Fifth Ace by Gage, George W.
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