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
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
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
Prosecutors say he bilked insurance companies out of hundreds of millions of dollars.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 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 Lewis E. Theiss
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