bilk
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Eight people were arrested and 15 were charged in an alleged scheme to bilk more than $50 million in healthcare funds by running sham hospice facilities across Southern California, federal officials announced Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026
The numbers out of Minnesota are staggering: Three separate plots to bilk welfare programs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
Guo, who is accused of engaging in a complex scheme to bilk thousands of online followers, was arrested this month in his 9,000-square-foot New York apartment.
From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023
But it also invited an unprecedented wave of theft and abuse, as criminals seized on the government’s generosity — and its race to disburse aid — to bilk state and federal agencies for massive sums.
From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2023
When he was passing behind Harte's chair one of them said, "He's the one!"—and they pounced upon him and proposed to turn him over to the police as a bilk.
From Chapters from My Autobiography by Twain, Mark
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