He's hit upon a strategy of bilking people that works.
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It's a tax dodge, and we're really bilking the public.
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Sometimes that leads to dominant promoters bilking the firms they run.
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For years, China has been gaming the system and bilking America.
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He's really, really good at bilking people out of their money.
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He had accumulated a fortune for himself and his family by bilking his followers.
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Of course, Trump himself has experience bilking tax breaks and subsidies to make massive profits.
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Yetts, for example, spent time in prison for bilking investors out of nearly $2 million.
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He accuses partners of undercutting the US on trade or bilking the US for protection.
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But he recovered from that failure by bilking middle-class stock investors out of their money.
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Carton and his associates stand accused of bilking two investors out of at least $5.6 million.
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Rubio framed the issue as Trump the con artist bilking working people out of their money.
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A Medicare scam claiming to spot cancer diagnoses is bilking seniors out of thousands of dollars
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She pretended to be a German heiress, bilking Manhattan hotels, banks and a private jet operator.
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Bilking advertisers this way could distort the traffic figures, but whether significantly so is open to question.
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Trump has frequently accused the EU and major European powers of bilking the U.S. in global trade.
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The plan appears to have worked, bilking as much as $5 million a day, Vindu Goel writes.
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Duke is a convicted felon, pleading guilty in 2002 to bilking his supporters and cheating on his taxes.
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Yetts, a former wrestling champion, spent 18 months in prison for bilking investors out of nearly $2 million.
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The system has also seen its share of abuses: Several legislators have been convicted of bilking the system.
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But there is a deeper explanation for Mr Trump's willingness to admit to dodging taxes and bilking small contractors.
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The employment agencies were also charged with bilking the French state of social security contributions totaling nearly €12 million.
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He was found guilty of 13 counts of fraud in 2005 for bilking more than $50 million from UK taxpayers.
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Narco Freedom, which was accused last year by federal and state prosecutors of bilking Medicaid, has since been shut down.
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He is also a convicted felon who pleaded guilty in 2002 to cheating on his taxes and bilking his supporters.
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Authorities allege he repeated the scam across the country, bilking consumers and charities out of tens of thousands of dollars.
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In February, the Department of Justice coordinated the largest sweep ever of fraudsters bilking the elderly out of their life savings.
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Mr. Trump's record of bilking students, stiffing contractors and more is a good indicator of how he'd act as president; Mrs.
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The lawsuits accuse Trump of bilking students who paid as much as $35,000 each to learn his real estate investment strategies.
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The Federal Trade Commission accused the company, World Patent Marketing, of bilking thousands of customers who believed they were receiving patents.
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The founder of a $9 billion lending platform called Ezubao was sentenced last year to life in prison for bilking investors.
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Greenwood, 143, had cooperated with prosecutors after he and business partner Stephen Walsh were accused of bilking investors from 1996 to 2009.
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Alabama, Clemson, Michigan State and Oklahoma were among big-money collegiate programs taking the high road by not bilking their own students.
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A Nigeria-based romance-scam outfit, dubbed Scarlet Widow in a new report, has been bilking lonelyhearts of their savings since 2015.
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And Dunyasha Yetts, another accuser and former wrestling champ, spent 85033 months in prison for bilking investors out of nearly $2 million.
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We need to demand answers for the administration's assault on health care coverage, its corruption and its bilking of middle-income taxpayers.
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BEIJING — China accused the deal maker who bought the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York of bilking investors of more than $10 billion.
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A jury convicted Ms. Sorokin, who went by Anna Delvey, of bilking hotels, restaurants, a private jet operator and banks out of $275,000.
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What makes his conduct particularly egregious is that he was bilking Melgen while publicly denouncing these very same practices in judging another man.
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And Dunyasha Yetts, another accuser and former wrestling champion, admitted he spent 18 months in prison for bilking investors out of nearly $2 million.
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Anna Sorokin, who called herself "Anna Delvey," was convicted of bilking hotels, restaurants, a private jet operator and banks out of more than $200,000.
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Cooper and his company are accused by the Federal Trade Commission of bilking millions of dollars from thousands of customers through a patent scam.
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The calls resulted in scammers bilking Americans, mostly seniors, for $38 million last year, according to the Senate report, citing the Federal Trade Commission.
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While the scammers have been bilking trusting Twitter users out of all sorts of cryptocurrency, the scam seems to have had a focus on Ethereum.
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Goldman Sachs is being accused of bilking a corporate client who hired the investment bank to advise it on a $2.9 billion takeover last year.
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Notably, Gottlieb was never accused of lying about his research, bilking the public for expensive flights, or trashing people's homes, unlike certain other Trump appointees.
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Dan Levin reports that the British Columbia authorities have accused Mr. Oei of bilking investors of millions of dollars, promising them access to Canadian residency.
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Katherine Kealoha is also accused of bilking thousands of dollars from banks, her uncle, her 98-year-old grandmother and two children whose trusts she oversaw.
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But throwing out the credit system without a replacement would reopen the system to hucksters preying on students and bilking the federal loan guarantee, she said.
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But skeptics believe the company is bilking investors out of billions of dollars based on marketing fluff and a heavy dose of FOMO — fear of missing out.
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Republicans are finally pivoting to similar attacks against Trump, accusing him of bilking the little guy with his companies and pushing him to release his tax returns.
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She explained that her target was a guy who was bilking her for money and had information that could cause her to lose her ability to practice.
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He was indicted by a grand jury of two counts of federal wire fraud on suspicion of bilking the NBA star, court records unsealed in September showed.
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On Wednesday, Chinese authorities accused a founder of Anbang, who was the deal maker who bought the Waldorf Astoria, of bilking investors of more than $10 billion.
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Times Insider In jailhouse interviews before and after her sentencing, the woman who became infamous for bilking banks and friends out of $200,000 was mischievous — and unrepentant.
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The financial sector is regulated to prevent companies from taking advantage of investors or bilking consumers, and to prevent reckless banking practices from tanking the global economy.
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First the U.S. celebrated cheating in the form of treaty-breaking, land-bilking pioneers (and Andrew Jackson, Donald Trump's presidential idol, was the biggest treaty-cheater of all).
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But some reflects a lower default risk, because for many borrowers defaulting on loans from state-backed Chinese entities is a scarier prospect than bilking a commercial lender.
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But that's precisely what happened when a defense contractor bragged on LinkedIn about bilking the Department of Defense out of money, according to new documents obtained by Gizmodo.
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One of China's biggest financial crimes trials intensified when the founder of Anbang Insurance, Wu Xiaohui, pleaded not guilty to bilking investors out of more than $10 billion.
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His plan calls for a moratorium on major media mergers, blames major tech companies for bilking newsrooms' revenue, and promotes his push to unionize newsrooms across the country.
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Nothing appears to be rotten in the water there, though another local man who did not work for Ridgeway was recently convicted of bilking investors of $2 million.
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Donald Trump with Michael Sexton in 2005 (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)Donald Trump's former "university" has been accused of bilking students out of their hard-earned cash.
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Next thing you know, I'll be bilking billions from my fake fans for a fake stadium to replace the fake one they fake-built for me 10 years ago.
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Editorial Forty years ago, voters first heard the allegation that there were "welfare queens" — throngs of impoverished mothers supposedly dedicated to bilking programs for the needy by having children.
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He was on the advisory board of a company accused of bilking customers and has criticized the Supreme Court's power of judicial review, a foundational principle of American government.
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A thousand dollars to the clients they're bilking is a drop in the bucket, an amount so trivial they can afford to chalk it up as a fun mistake.
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But it also became the center of a scandal in the mid-1980s, when Mr. Bashford and two partners were accused of bilking the city in a rent-evasion scheme.
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Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money on private air travel is the culmination of this indifferent attitude toward government ethics—and of bilking taxpayers at every turn.
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But after some initial salvos (notably a Hillary Clinton speech in Atlantic City that accused Trump of bilking small business contractors at his hotel), the party largely dropped that argument.
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This business model incentivizes Atrium to work as efficiently as possible instead of bilking hourly rates, and build tools to eliminate less-skilled work or assist with common corporate duties.
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World Patent Marketing, accused by the government of bilking millions of dollars from consumers, admitted no fault but settled with the FTC for more than $25 million earlier this year.
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Four senior House Democrats sent letters requesting information relating to Whitaker's past involvement with World Patent Marketing, a company accused by the government of bilking millions of dollars from consumers.
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The financial sector is regulated to prevent companies from taking advantage of investors, to prevent companies from bilking consumers, and to prevent reckless banking practices from tanking the global economy.
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As Kotlikoff tells it, he will not hesitate to call up executives at major financial firms to complain that they are bilking investors by misleading them with erroneous retirement calculations.
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Steven Hoffenberg, who was convicted in 1997 of bilking investors of Towers Financial Corporation of $462 million, leased office space on the 16th floor shortly after his legal difficulties began.
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Steven Wessel is a convicted con man with a Big Apple flair, feigning connections to Ronald Reagan and pretending to be an Oxford man while bilking rich Manhattanites of $750,000.
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Initially, Task Force Raptor made headlines with a few big arrests, including a fraud ring in Texas involving 13 soldiers who pleaded guilty to bilking the Army out of $2000,000.
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But Rivada CEO Declan Ganley is maintaining a combative message when it comes to the 5G plan his company backs, blasting incumbent telecom giants as "parasites" bilking the American public.
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Trump and his for-profit real estate seminars have been accused of bilking students who paid as much as $35,000 for an opportunity to learn the businessman's real estate investment strategies.
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ALBANY, N.Y. – Officials say a 48-year-old woman has admitted to passing herself off as a lawyer while bilking hundreds of New York prison inmates out of more than $20,000.
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According to his former colleagues, Ahmed — who'd joined Oak in 2100 following short stints as a junior investor with both Goldman Sachs and Fidelity Ventures — began bilking the firm almost immediately.
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In lawsuits in California and New York, Trump has been accused of bilking students who paid as much as $35,000 for an opportunity to learn the businessman's real estate investment strategies.
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Bernie Lo: One of the problems I'm having here in Hong Kong is the fund management industry, it has been widely accused of bilking the consumer for a long, long time.
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Of course, this is criticism the NFL is perfectly content to weather, because it isn't about legitimately important things like head injuries and domestic violence and bilking taxpayers out of money.
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A onetime theater agent was arrested Friday and charged with bilking his friends by raising money for a nonexistent Broadway play that he claimed was to star the actress Lupita Nyong'o.
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Dearie's decision clears the way for U.S. prosecutors to continue a criminal case against Maksim Zaslavskiy, who is accused of bilking at least $300,000 from investors through two fraudulent cryptocurrency offerings.
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While Trump has focused on decades of alleged Chinese trade abuse, the president also accuses steadfast allies like Germany and France of bilking the U.S. in the auto and agricultural sectors.
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A Pennsylvania beauty queen who shaved her head and faked having leukemia – bilking sympathetic and sometimes dying donors out of thousands of dollars – was sentenced to state prison Tuesday, PEOPLE has confirmed.
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World Patent Marketing, a company accused by the government of bilking millions of dollars from consumers, admitted no fault but settled with the FTC for more than $25 million earlier this year.
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Melgen is already facing the possibility of a long prison sentence after being convicted in April of bilking Medicare out of as much as $105 million by performing unneeded tests and treatments.
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Robert Amsterdam says that public records and whistleblowers show the charter schools — which receive hundreds of millions in public funding — are bilking taxpayers, committing fraud on a massive scale and abusing students.
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A royal commission appointed by the Australian government released a stinging report on Monday that criticized the country's powerful banking and financial service industry for bilking consumers, and called for tougher regulations.
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But in the mid-20153s, he started the process of spinning shit into gold by launching a publicly traded company, Trump Casino Hotels & Resorts, and bilking his investors for all they were worth.
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He also came under fire for serving on the advisory board of World Patent Marketing in Miami, the company that has been accused by the government of bilking millions of dollars from customers.
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Joshua B. Newman, a Yale University graduate turned personal fitness entrepreneur, was sentenced on Tuesday to more than three years in a federal prison for bilking 30 investors out of more than $3 million.
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From "tweet storms" to campaign speeches, Warren has used multiple mediums to paint Trump as a con artist who is set on bilking Americans to enrich himself, often provoking angry responses from the nominee.
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On Thursday, a Communist Party tabloid, The Global Times, released video of what it said was Mr. Wang's 2016 trial on fraud charges, where a young man confessed to bilking someone out of $17,000.
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A 25-year-old Kentucky woman faces up to 10 years in prison for allegedly lying about having cancer and bilking well-meaning friends, co-workers, and strangers out of more than $10,000, PEOPLE confirms.
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Once one of these bad agencies wins an account, they agree to a monthly retainer and sign a contract, which usually has a 30-day out (strategically very important as a part of the bilking).
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And as investigations proceed in several other countries into the alleged bilking of colossal sums from 1MDB, an indebted state investment-fund whose advisory board Mr Najib once chaired, the prime minister himself remains untouched.
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But Philip Esformes, 47, remains behind bars, as his lawyers battle a federal judge who has denied Esformes bail until his trial for allegedly bilking government programs out of $1 billion, according to court records.
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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who admitted last month to error in failing to divest assets as required under ethics rules, is now facing allegations of bilking friends and investors in a tough new Forbes report.
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Whitaker was also the subject of a 2017 fraud query from the Federal Trade Commission over his involvement with World Patent Marketing, a company accused by the government of bilking millions of dollars from consumers.
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U.S. prosecutors accused Rimasauskas and unnamed co-conspirators of bilking Google and Facebook out of more than $100 million by posing as an Asian hardware vendor and claiming that the companies owed the vendor money.
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Turner also faces a count of child abuse and 2992 other charges related to her alleged bilking of Medicaid, hospitals and charities, including the Make-A-Wish Foundation, out of more than a half million dollars.
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In the ring, she is exactly the trope of a woman Ronald Reagan vilified in the 1970s and '80s: lazy, stubbornly rude, and living the fur-coated high life while bilking the government of public funds.
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Then he threw it all away by bilking family and friends out of more than $38 million — and was seeking more when he was arrested in March — to finance wildly speculative options trades that ultimately failed.
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Throughout his attacks, Trump has criticized Amazon for being a "no profit" company, bilking the United States Post Office, not paying its fair share of taxes and for supposedly having sinister ties to The Washington Post.
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In a desperate bid for cash, he turned to his biggest case from his stint as an elder-care lawyer: a continuing class-action lawsuit against a retirement-home company that had been bilking its residents.
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Here's a statement from Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR): "Today's letter is more evidence that while Mylan irresponsibly raised the price of EpiPen, they were also bilking taxpayers out of millions of dollars," Wyden and Pallone said.
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What does interest her is the refugee setting, but aside from some inspired details — the character of Corin is now a bilking shopkeeper — this vision of the Forest of Arden is unproductively at odds with the play.
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The high-profile wheeler and dealer filed numerous lawsuits and faced an array of allegations of his own before stepping into the Oval Office, including claims of sexual harassment, bilking investors and defrauding students of his eponymous university.
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Two members of Congress on Wednesday accused big drugmaker Mylan of "bilking taxpayers out of millions of dollars" by underpaying Medicaid in rebates owed on sales of the lifesaving device, as they vowed to recoup that money. Sen.
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And she played a crucial role in the passage of welfare reform, which gutted cash benefits to poor women and children based on the false claim that lazy and sexually promiscuous "welfare queens" were somehow bilking the system.
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In a speech at AARP headquarters last year, he said Wall Street brokers were bilking retirees out of billions of dollars in savings through hidden fees and that he intended to ensure the industry put clients' interests first.
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The police and the courts seem more interested in allegations of minor offences by opposition figures than they are in the blatant bilking of the taxpayer over 1MDB and the open violation of the constitution at the election commission.
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Trump is so little concerned with being tagged as a con artist that he openly touts his support by Don King, whose sordid history includes stomping a man to death and bilking the boxers he was supposed to represent.
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"Nothing about Jeffrey Epstein makes sense, including his death," said Steven Hoffenberg, Epstein's former friend and business partner and a convicted fraudster who served 18 years in prison for bilking investors out of $460 million in a ponzi scheme.
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A Florida doctor who had ambitions to one day become the president of Ghana faces charges of bilking $26 million from health insurers for surgeries he did not perform or for carrying out unnecessary procedures, federal court records show.
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"Today's letter is more evidence that while Mylan irresponsibly raised the price of EpiPen, they were also bilking taxpayers out of millions of dollars," the lawmakers said in a joint statement, adding they would "ensure taxpayers get their due."
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It was a bad storyline for Trump, and it drew further attention to the shocking details of his Atlantic City comeback, in which he made tens of millions of dollars by bilking middle-class suckers out of their savings.
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SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Retired NBA superstar Tim Duncan's former financial adviser has been indicted on federal fraud charges accusing him of bilking the long-time San Antonio Spurs player out of millions of dollars, court papers unsealed on Friday showed.
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We now find ourselves led by a President-elect whose favored aesthetic makes Napoleon's fondness for gilt bronze look positively understated, and who is accused of things like bilking contractors and other small business owners out of their agreed-upon wages.
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But now a whistle-blower, a former well-placed official at UnitedHealth Group, asserts that the big insurance companies have been systematically bilking Medicare Advantage for years, reaping billions of taxpayer dollars from the program by gaming the payment system.
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Two men were accused on Friday of bilking millions of dollars from investors with a Ponzi scheme built on a false promise to buy and resell tickets to high-profile events like the Broadway musical "Hamilton," the federal authorities said.
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On July 14, Gasper scored his biggest victory yet: Lavrick Willocks, a 28-year-old Jamaican accused of bilking at least 90 victims out of $5.7 million, agreed to plead guilty to a conspiracy charge in federal court in Bismarck.
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They rewrote the story of the 1920s, a period of Republican rule, as a time of corruption and dishonesty, in which the GOP allowed the flimflam men of Wall Street and the big utility companies to get away with bilking the public.
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Luxury scam: Anna Sorokin, the fake German heiress who swindled her way into Manhattan's elite party circles, was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison for bilking hotels, banks and a private jet operator out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Take the latest developments with Woodbridge Group of Companies, a real estate investing firm that has been implicated, along with its former owner and related companies, for bilking 8,400 retail investors, many of whom were older Americans, through a $1.2 billion so-called Ponzi scheme.
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A banner graphic from the now-deleted website of World Patent Marketing, charged by the FTC with bilking inventors out of millions since 2014 (Google Cache)According to the FTC, World Patent Marketing didn't actually secure any licensing or manufacturing agreements for its customers.
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A lawyer representing Wu Xiaohui, a businessman who rose to prominence in part through his company's purchase of the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, said Wednesday in a social media post that Mr. Wu would appeal a lengthy prison sentence for bilking investors.
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The Bernie Madoff of his time, Wright was a financier/con man who bounced between England and New York bilking people out of their money by any means necessary—speculating in the silver, mining, and oil industries, seeking investment for numerous companies, selling shares to raise capital.
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A man created a $25-million scam named after McCoy Howard Leventhal plead guilty to a swath of fraud charges in 2013 after bilking investors out of $25 million he wanted for his "McCoy Home Health Tablet," which could "instantaneously and effectively" deliver patient data to doctors.
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"In Vino" examines the story of Rudy Kurniawan, a wine collector of mysterious wealth and origin, who fooled a coterie of even wealthier collectors along with covetous hangers-on, bilking them all with fraudulent bottles of rare, old wines, many of which he created in his kitchen.
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Cate Blanchett won an Oscar playing Jasmine French, a Park Avenue matron fallen on hard times after her husband, Hal (Alec Baldwin), lands in prison for bilking his clients, leaving her with little more than her pearls, her Chanel jacket, her Hermès bag and her Louis Vuitton luggage.
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And even while people strive to stay shocked by the most outlandish of Trump's behaviors, it's also worth stayed focused on his most banal failings — he's a rich kid and reality television star who seems somewhat talented at bilking people out of money, who for some reason wants to be president.
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But he did profit mightily from running it, bilking shareholders by transferring his personal debts onto the corporate balance sheet, having the public company pay extravagant sums to buy Trump-branded goods from separate companies that he owned personally, and of course paying himself a lavish salary for his troubles.
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Samuel Finlayson, a researcher at Harvard Medical School and M.I.T. and one of the authors of the paper, warned that because so much money changes hands across the health care industry, stakeholders are already bilking the system by subtly changing billing codes and other data in computer systems that track health care visits.
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Between 1973 and 1975, Mr. Rosch was director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, where he proposed tighter restrictions on nutritional claims in food advertising, went after five large New York department stores for bilking charge-account customers and challenged carmakers' ads that made misleading claims about fuel economy.
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Hillary Clinton's team went on the offensive against Donald Trump on Thursday, releasing a new attack ad that excoriates the real estate mogul for bilking a small architecture firm: As it released the video, Clinton's team also unveiled a set of new policy proposals designed to prevent big firms from using "predatory behavior" to exploit smaller businesses.
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We start assuming these players and managers and owners (and celebrities and politicians and football columnists) are good people with decent things in their hearts, and soon they're bilking us for stadium money and covering up institutional rape cultures and inspiring the mental gymnastics that allow us to attack victims so as not to question our fandoms.
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Once you begin to identify such arrangements as grifts, you are bound to discover, in our baroquely capitalist society, that loads of things are essentially grift-shaped, from oddball start-ups to arcane financial services: They begin with a slick appeal, go on to create nothing of concrete value and end, like any good bilking, with your money in new pockets.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Friday charged a New York man with bilking investors out of $5.3 million by misrepresenting himself as a successful fund manager linked to the family behind the former Genovese drug store chain In a criminal complaint unsealed in Manhattan federal court, prosecutors accused Nicholas Genovese of defrauding investors in his purported hedge fund Willow Creek Investments LP since at least 2015.
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One was the crisis of 2008, after which a lot of ordinary Americans turned their attention to the financial-services industry and discovered something that looked, on the surface, uncannily like a classic bilking: There was a lot of hard-to-follow shifting about of who owned what and who owed what to whom, and in the end a lot of people found that their retirement savings had vanished.
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After bilking corporations out of millions of dollars for "insight" into his client, failing to pay his taxes, trying to entrap his client, and pleading guilty to lying to Congress, now-disbarred attorney Michael Cohen took his best shots at President Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE, calling him a liar and a cheat.
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Indeed, a steady stream of Trump appointees has followed their boss' example: Trump's secretary of housing and urban development broke the law by lavishly spending taxpayer dollars to refurnish his office; Trump's secretary of health and human services resigned after bilking American taxpayers out of over $1 million; Trump's former EPA administrator illegally spent tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars on a soundproof phone booth and resigned amid a litany of ethical violations; Trump's former interior secretary racked up tens of thousands of dollars in improper travel charges and resigned following revelations of his participation in a land deal with a major oil services company; Trump's attorney general has weaponized the department of justice to protect the president politically; Trump's personal attorney sought to profit from the president's political dirty work; Trump has appointed more ex-lobbyists to his cabinet in three years than other recent presidents appointed over their eight-year terms.
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