bilked

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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

Federal prosecutors say dozens of people bilked taxpayers by setting up scam social-services companies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 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

Others fell for the ruse and were bilked out of a few hundred dollars.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 30, 2023

All the way down, according to his common practice, he bilked the public-houses, and at last arriving at Doncaster, began to set heartily about the work for which he came down.

From Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Hayward, Arthur L.