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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 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

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

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

But they'll lie low; they'll sit on the cash till the time comes when it's safe to dispose of it; and they'll bilk the Inland Revenue out of the duties.

From The Secret of the Tower by Hope, Anthony

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

"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.]

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

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

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

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

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

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

I knew there would be warrants and commotion, the deal having flopped and a lot of prominent citizens feeling as if they had been bilked.

From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben

New York tabloids dubbed Bloom the “Wall Street Whiz Kid” in the 1980s after he was charged in federal court with bilking nearly 140 people, including his own grandmother, out of a combined $15 million.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026

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

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