fleecing

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

There were concerns that these companies, known as pharmacy benefit managers, or P.B.M.s, were fleecing agencies like Medicaid, the government-run health insurance program for the poor.

Among those wearing a wire was a DEA informant accused of fleecing $800 million from Venezuela’s foreign currency system through a fraudulent import scheme.