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

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

Well, Summer is gone, and so is the Sun, And farming is nought but a bilk.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 12, 1891 by Various

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

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

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

Johnny Wilkes, Johnny Wilkes, Thou greatest of bilks, How changed are the notes you now sing!

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge

In the 1990s, John Bennett and his New Era Philanthropy, a Ponzi scheme, bilked an ex-U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 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

Prosecutors say he bilked insurance companies out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2024

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

The precious old pirate; hasn’t he bilked us nicely?

From The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover by Mayne Reid

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

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

The embattled cryptocurrency mogul, who has been accused of bilking FTX customers out of billions of dollars, met with Steve Ricchetti, a senior adviser to President Biden, on Sept. 8, according to Bloomberg News.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 30, 2022

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