fleecing

This revenue share is for all media—not just books—but illustrates the extreme financial incentive prisons have to participate with prison telecom companies in this fleecing of incarcerated people.

There are a lot of pastors who have gotten very rich by fleecing their parishioners of their money in megachurches on television.

July had thousands and thousands of notes on her phone with anecdotes from real life, “fleecing them for the narrator,” she said.

I woke from my nap to see the beady little eyes of that orange-toned man on television in his ubiquitous white shirt, red tie and dark blue suit proclaiming his victimhood as his decadeslong fleecing of America now has him cornered in a stuffy Manhattan courtroom while prospective jurors eye him like a caged orangutan that likes to fling its own feces at the crowd.

“I’m completely disillusioned the way the politics is, the way they are fleecing us,” said the 89-year-old retired journalist.