bilk

People signed up their pets, used aliases and played games with mailing addresses to bilk the company out of new releases for less than the cost of a penny.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026

Under the tax code’s current wording, the IRS said it doesn’t matter if it’s the taxpayer who is trying to bilk the IRS or if it’s a third party like an accountant.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

Sanberg pleaded guilty in October to the federal charges of conspiring to bilk investors out of $248 million for portraying the now-defunct Aspiration as a “socially-conscious and sustainable banking services and investment products” firm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

Well, Summer is gone, and so is the Sun, And farming is nought but a bilk.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 12, 1891 by Various

She soon falls prey to a shady scheme that bilks her out of a large sum of money.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2021

Attempting to escape her, Sally encounters another nightmare creature, who bilks her of much of her small stash of money with a sob story that’s clearly bogus.

From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2017

She makes you her servant; and when pay-day comes round, she bilks you: that is what you mean.

From Heartbreak House by Bernard Shaw

"That bilks Mr. Barrett!" he said; and the baffling of Barrett continued to afford him mirth for an hour.

From Widdershins by Oliver [pseud.] Onions

Johnny Wilkes, Johnny Wilkes, Thou greatest of bilks, How changed are the notes you now sing!

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge

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

The indictment does not name the California politician whose campaign fund the trio allegedly bilked.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 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

You and the old man have bilked us out of what we spent on the mine.

From The City of Numbered Days by Francis Lynde

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2026

Not the cancer part, or the charity bilking, but if the recipes weren’t good, the app wouldn’t have been such a hit, right?

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2025

Arrested in late 2017, she was convicted in 2019 on multiple counts of larceny and theft for bilking banks, hotels and wealthy New Yorkers out of $275,000.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

The embattled cryptocurrency mogul, who has been accused of bilking FTX customers out of billions of dollars, met with Steve Ricchetti, a senior adviser to President Biden, on Sept. 8, according to Bloomberg News.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 30, 2022

There were only a few vendors, and all were engaged in harried negotiations with rebels, lean and sullen and above all bored, jostling and shoving and bilking as a way to pass the time.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer