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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

Also starting this week is the first trial in a sprawling scheme last decade to bilk Mississippi’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

Guo, who is accused of engaging in a complex scheme to bilk thousands of online followers, was arrested this month in his 9,000-square-foot New York apartment.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

They also face fake brokers who promise to help them send money back to their families in the North but instead just bilk them.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2022

The feller that 'll bilk his board bill is come mighty low, sirs.

From The Son of his Father by Cullum, Ridgwell

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

Whenever they include other episodes from the novel�principally a scene in which the Confidence Man bilks a barber out of a shave by appealing to his trust�they needlessly distract attention from the main drama.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

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

From Heartbreak House by Shaw, Bernard

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

The indictment does not name the California politician whose campaign fund the trio allegedly bilked.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025

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

Monday’s trial stems from charges alleging he 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 ● Feb. 25, 2024

If my old fool of a grandfather hadn't let himself be bilked out of the whole holding," he said coarsely, "I'd own that timber to-day and I'd be a millionaire instead of a poor forest-ranger.

From The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol by Theiss, Lewis E.

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

A Southern California doctor accused of bilking Medicare out of millions by billing for unnecessary hospice services has been sentenced to 24 months in federal prison, federal prosecutors said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024

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

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