bilk

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Prosecutors last fall brought charges against a 28-year-old Minnesotan woman in a similar scheme that included bilking the government for meals and transportation.

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Also starting this week is the first trial in a sprawling scheme last decade to bilk Mississippi’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.

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The fraudulent enterprises didn’t provide legitimate public services, though they did employ people—in the service of bilking the government.

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State subsidies are paid directly to child-care providers, which could enable fraudsters to set up fly-by-night day care to bilk the government.

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

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