bilked

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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

From those schools, 10 teachers were bilked out of roughly $7,000 in credit card charges, Ware said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 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

Others fell for the ruse and were bilked out of a few hundred dollars.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 30, 2023

I knew there would be warrants and commotion, the deal having flopped and a lot of prominent citizens feeling as if they had been bilked.

From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben