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Thousands of people were bilked out of millions of dollars.
Overall, the FTC says these charities bilked donors out of $187 million.
And how did so many smart collectors get bilked out of millions?
A whistle-blower now says insurers bilked the system of billions of dollars.
You remember claw machines, those confounded scams that bilked you out of your allowance.
The Arizona scheme bilked the state out of more than $215,000, the statement said.
He must guarantee that investors in these funds are not bilked by excessive fees.
The President has complained that Canada's trade policies have bilked US farmers and dairymen.
He cast him as a déclassé mountebank who bilked students at his Trump University.
Severe consequences are appropriate, but reactionary — always coming after numerous consumers have been bilked.
Hundreds of millions of dollars have been bilked from unsuspecting Americans as a result.
The incidents can leave victims bilked out of up to thousands of dollars and emotionally shaken.
The police estimated that he may have bilked Americans out of $100 million over the telephone.
"The fictional story that CIA was bilked out of $100,000 is patently false," the CIA said.
He has bankrupted small businesses by refusing to pay his bills and bilked students out of an education.
The 25-year old has been beset with accusations he bilked tax authorities in both Spain and Brazil.
The victims, influencers and travel photographers among them, got bilked out of thousands of dollars in the process.
On top of coping with the loss of a son, her lawyer and psychiatrist bilked her out of millions.
The defendant "shamefully bilked an elderly, vulnerable man," Ken Thompson, the district attorney, said in a statement on Monday.
Since 2011, Mr. Schneiderman has secured more than $26 million for almost 20,000 workers who were bilked of wages.
He seemed to have it all before he bilked his family and friends out of more than $38 million.
As part of the deal, Mr. Scahill must repay $189,000 over the next six months to the investors he bilked.
How countless "investors" have been bilked out of billions would be a worthy topic for a book — perhaps Schmitz's next one.
Eighty people contended that they were bilked out of millions of dollars through a "coercive" scheme by the self-help group.
The bottom line: CMS appears ready to step on the gas and recoup money it believes the industry has bilked from taxpayers.
But after a year of waiting, Johnny started seeing other Sparrows complaining online who altogether had been bilked out of around $20033,000.
He had bilked investors out of millions of dollars, and he was under investigation when he staged a plane crash in 2009.
This week, the Department of Justice announced the indictment of a Lithuanian man who bilked Google and Facebook out of $123 million.
Petrobras itself is still reeling after a massive graft scandal in which construction companies bilked the state oil giant out of billions.
Mr Menendez allegedly tried to protect Mr Melgin from charges he had bilked Medicare out of $105m by submitting fraudulent reimbursement claims.
In January, the committee heard testimony from a Utah woman who was bilked out of $150,000 in a Social Security phone scheme.
"The fictional story that CIA was bilked out of $100,000 is patently false," the spy agency said in a statement reported by AFP.
UnitedHealth Group bilked Medicare out of perhaps billions of dollars by making people look sicker than they were, a whistle-blower suit says.
And, the team hopes, some clues about how to prevent more vulnerable marks from getting bilked by the call centers that carry them out.
It has survived heartbreak and scandal: A few years ago, businessmen came to the church and bilked numerous parishioners in a mortgage-fraud scheme.
When Trump fans wanted to learn the secrets of his business success, he bilked them out of money for classes at his fake university.
The Department of Justice this week announced the arrest of nearly 300 individuals in connection with email scams that bilked people out of millions.
One striking sequence assembles an audio montage of clients testifying to how they'd been bilked, over a succession of arty black-and-white photos.
That followed a scandal, made public in 2010 after her butler secretly recorded politicians, lawyers and friends as they bilked her for millions of euros.
Pai's panel this week also made headlines when one of its former chairs was arrested for a scam that bilked investors out of $250 million.
Democrats have defended the CFPB as an essential, independent watchdog that has fought for and reimbursed millions of Americans who were bilked by shady lenders.
In 2009, Mr. Madoff admitted to running a scheme that bilked thousands of investors out of their cash, wiping out his victims' savings and destroying lives.
The Federal Trade Commission has called the company "an invention-promotion scam that has bilked thousands of consumers out of millions of dollars" in court filings.
Fitness Entrepreneur Pleads Guilty in Wire Fraud Case | Joshua B. Newman, a fitness entrepreneur, bilked at least 30 investors out of about $3.1 million, authorities said.
Late last year, former executives of Valeant and mail-order pharmacy Philidor were charged with running a fraud-and-kickback scheme that bilked Valeant out of millions.
German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported on Sunday that Frankfurt prosecutors allege that Maple Bank and its business partners have bilked the taxpayer of some 450 million euros.
He was freed from the misery of that boarding school only when Sarah, having been bilked by a fortune hunter, went broke and had to withdraw him.
Americans have been bilked out of at least $450 million by callers claiming to be government officials since 2014, according to CNN, citing Federal Trade Commission data.
Last year, Chinese authorities said an online finance company had bilked investors out of more than $7.6 billion in what they said was a huge Ponzi scheme.
In 2014, four men were sentenced to jail time for an ongoing scam that had bilked California's system for $329,887 US by hauling containers from Washington state.
McFarland, Margolin, and Simon were charged with "violating the antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws," and the three have agreed to pay back the money they bilked.
Unscrupulous operators have bilked savers of billions of dollars by running pyramid schemes or promoting questionable investments in everything from tree plantations to farming emus, a flightless bird.
In 220, Sater pleaded guilty to racketeering—operating a "pump and dump" stock fraud in partnership with alleged Russian mobsters that bilked investors of at least $2000 million.
Some 15,000 victims in all were bilked, the officials said; while many of the people targeted were immigrants from India or across South Asia, large numbers were not.
Former students sued Trump, claiming they were bilked out of their money, and he's set to face a trial for fraud in the matter shortly after the election.
In all, the jury found, Ms. Sorokin bilked these places out of more than $200,000 and tried to dupe a hedge fund into giving her a $25 million loan.
The Haggler has written a few columns about John Fox, the man who bilked millions from customers of Premier Cru, a wine store he helped found in Berkeley, Calif.
Few people could have been more astonished at Mr. Parnas's access to the halls of power and prestige than those who say they were bilked or stiffed by him.
At least, that's what investigators say they learned during a criminal probe into the famous radio host -- who allegedly bilked investors out of millions of dollars to repay casino debts.
During a Senate hearing last month, Warren lambasted then-Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf over charges that the bank bilked customers out of millions of dollars by opening unauthorized accounts.
Prosecutors charged Nordlicht, Levy and SanFilippo with fraud in December 2016, saying they and others at Platinum bilked investors out of "millions and millions of dollars" in two different schemes.
A former theater agent has been sentenced to six months in jail after admitting that he bilked investors of hundreds of thousands of dollars to back a nonexistent Broadway play.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has filed charges against Robert Shapiro, alleging he bilked investors — many of them senior citizens — out of $1.2 billion as part of a Ponzi scheme.
The targeted companies worked from essentially the same playbook: Prosecutors said they "bilked" hundreds of millions in fees from people who often falsely believed they were paying for student loan forgiveness.
While at least two investors where allegedly bilked out of $1.2 million dollars, according to the statement, at least the rest of us were treated to a lifetime's worth of schadenfreude.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo strongly denied on Tuesday a report that Russia bilked U.S. spies out of $100,000 by offering compromising information on President Donald Trump.
A federal judge in Manhattan has dismissed a lawsuit accusing Citibank and PNC Bank of negligence and aiding a counterfeit check scheme that bilked a New York lawyer out of nearly $300,000.
Now Trump's new point person at this consumer agency—which ostensibly looks out for everyone from student debtors to people getting bilked for extra debit card fees—wants to finish the job.
He is the owner of a for-profit university that allegedly bilked students of millions, that was forced to close by the Justice Department and that is now facing trial for racketeering.
The company, World Patent Marketing, "bilked thousands of consumers out of millions of dollars" by promising inventors lucrative patent agreements, according to a complaint filed in Florida by the Federal Trade Commission.
After Mr. Vinnik's lawyers filed an appeal to the Greek Supreme Court, France also demanded his extradition, claiming he had bilked around 100 French citizens by launching cyberattacks through his Bitcoin platform.
Prosecutors alleged that Duffy bilked taxpayers for housing expenses, set up a slush fund to hand contracts to his friends, took money in exchange for political favours, and abused his political office.
I spoke to Barbara Smith, who said she and a friend were bilked out of more than $60,000 after Paulette persuaded them to invest in the day care center and become her partners.
Prosecutors say this is believed to be the first large-scale Jamaican lottery scam prosecuted in the U.S. Authorities allege the scam bilked at least 90 Americans out of more than $5.7 million.
He used the money that he bilked out of investors to fund a lavish lifestyle that included purchasing million-dollar properties in Washington and California, Lear jets and several yachts, the Times reported.
Photo: Stephen Lam (Getty)A Lithuanian man faces up to 30 years in prison after admitting to his role in a scheme that bilked Google and Facebook out of $121 million, Bloomberg reports.
OneCoin was a particularly prominent Ponzi scheme that bilked investors around the world out of $350 million, seems to have never issued an actual coin, and resulted in the arrest of numerous organizers.
Some of the people that Andrew Caspersen bilked out of millions of dollars are asking a federal judge to show mercy on the now-disgraced scion of a well-known Wall Street family.
According to the state's 2013 lawsuit against Trump, filed in state court in Manhattan, Trump University was an unlicensed, illegal operation that bilked students of up to $35,000 each between 2005 and 2011.
At The Drive-In would go on to unsuccessfully sue Jones for rights to the masters, and urge fans to never pay for the record, as they have always felt bilked by the label.
PONZI schemes abound in China and the latest has bilked nearly one million investors; and we also look at why negative interest rates have gone from being a European phenomenon to a global one
Mr. Taylor traveled to Japan three years ago to receive the Kyoto Prize, for which he received $500,000 (much of which was bilked from him by a friend), and to perform with Mr. Tanaka.
It means that the CFPB works not just for mobile phone customers who were billed illegal third-party charges, but also for Sprint and Verizon Wireless, who bilked their customers with these bogus fees.
The movie, which Chris Smith directed, finds the players in and around a 2017 scheme to pull a music festival out of thin air: software programmers, marketing people, expert event planners, laborers, the bilked.
Prosecutors said Petters bilked investors who thought he was using their money to buy consumer electronics from wholesalers and resell them to big-box retailers such as Costco Wholesale Corp and Walmart Inc's Sam's Club.
U.S. prosecutors charged Rimasauskas in March with engaging in an email fraud scheme in which they say he bilked Google and Facebooko> out of more than $100 million by posing as an Asian hardware vendor.
Mr. Newman, 36, pleaded guilty in Federal District Court in Newark on Wednesday to one count of wire fraud in a scheme that authorities said bilked at least 30 investors out of about $3.1 million.
Attorneys general in New York and California are pursuing separate class-action suits alleging that Trump University bilked consumers of tens of thousands of dollars they each paid for a worthless real-estate investment course.
In July, more than 20 people working with call centers in India were sentenced in a large scheme that bilked more than 15,20193 Americans of hundreds of millions of dollars over a four-year period.
Paul Manafort's former son-in-law was sentenced to more than nine years in prison Friday for a wide-ranging series of fraud schemes the court said bilked victims out of more than $20133 million.
He told jurors that Nordlicht and his co-defendants, Platinum's co-chief investment officer David Levy and its Chief Financial Officer Joseph SanFilippo, bilked investors out of "millions and millions of dollars" in two different schemes.
Prosecutors say that case, focused on Rio de Janeiro state, saw Brazilian taxpayers bilked out of at least 600 million reals ($149.38 million) between 2007 and 2018 through padded contracts awarded to crooked medical equipment suppliers.
As we previously reported ... Carton was arrested by FBI agents last week after officials say an investigation revealed he bilked investors out of millions of dollars in an effort to pay off a massive casino debt.
The attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, filed the lawsuit in 2013 asserting that Trump University, later known as the Trump Entrepreneur Initiative, misrepresented itself and bilked students individually of thousands of dollars and collectively of $40 million.
In a vast exposé, The New York Times reported that Trump, his siblings and his father, Fred Trump, bilked their fellow Americans of hundreds of millions of dollars through tax avoidance games and "loan" legerdemain over decades.
HONG KONG — A Chinese online finance company bilked investors out of more than $7.6 billion, spent lavishly on gifts and salaries and buried the evidence, according to local authorities who described the operation as an enormous Ponzi scheme.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors have charged a Lithuanian man with engaging in an email fraud scheme in which he bilked two U.S.-based companies out of more than $100 million by posing as an Asian hardware vendor.
BOSTON (Reuters) - A Massachusetts man was sentenced to six years in prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to helping to run what prosecutors called a global pyramid scheme that bilked its victims out of more than $3 billion.
It did crack down on the foundation affiliate of the UK-based Pearson education company for intermingling charitable and business funds, and got Broadway producer David Richenthal to pay back the $500,000 he bilked from his family foundation.
WASHINGTON — A Ukrainian-Russian developer who wanted access to President Trump's inauguration filed a lawsuit on Tuesday saying he was bilked out of the $200,000 he paid for what he thought would be V.I.P. tickets to the event.
But European investigators now believe that Mr. Dalli was linked to a separate fraud scheme — one that reached from Malta to the Bahamas to South Carolina, and that bilked investors including Ms. Hayes of at least $27 million.
A Manhattan restaurateur who bilked investors out of more than $12 million in a Ponzi scheme involving a fictitious wholesale liquor business pleaded guilty on Thursday in Federal District Court in Manhattan to one count of wire fraud.
It did crack down on the foundation affiliate of the UK-based Pearson education company for intermingling charitable and business funds and got Broadway producer David Richenthal to pay back the $500,000 he bilked from his family foundation.
Prosecutors say that in that case, which focused on Rio de Janeiro state, Brazilian taxpayers were bilked out of at least 600 million reais ($149.38 million) between 2007 and 2018 through padded contracts awarded to crooked medical equipment suppliers.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday rejected Texas financier Robert Allen Stanford's bid to overturn his conviction and 20143-year prison sentence for running what prosecutors called a $7.2 billion Ponzi scheme that bilked investors in 113 countries.
In 2014, a contractor working on his house, Noel Muir, bilked him out of nearly all of the $500,000 that Mr. Taylor had received for the Kyoto Prize; Mr. Muir was sentenced to one to three years in prison.
She came up with a new name, Anna Delvey, and lived under that identity as she bilked banks, hotels, restaurants and a private jet operator out of more than $26,2003 — and aimed to get millions more, according to prosecutors.
Noted Washington, D.C.-area radio personality and former financial advisor Dawn Bennett was convicted earlier this week of fraud, found to have bilked 46 listeners, advisory clients and friends who trusted her out of some $20 million in a Ponzi scheme.
This was before his businesses went bankrupt in the early 1990s, before he bilked middle-class retail investors to make a comeback, and before he reinvented himself in the 21st century as a reality television star and brand licensing entrepreneur.
The pleas stem from allegations that family members had bilked the state's Permanent Fund out of more than $20,000 by claiming in applications from 2009 to 2012 that they met residency requirements when they hadn't, according to the Juneau Empire.
Tilton was cleared of wrongdoing over the Zohar funds twice last year, winning dismissals in September of U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission claims that she bilked investors of $200 million, and in December of a racketeering lawsuit brought by the funds themselves.
Not everyone got what they thought they were paying for: Pavel Fuks, a Ukrainian-Russian developer, filed a lawsuit saying he was bilked out of the $200,000 he paid for what he thought would be V.I.P. tickets to the inauguration.
He's one of many, following a line of high-profile strongmen and raconteurs stretching all the way back to the circus shoot fighters who bilked the audience, using shoot-fight reality as a chip for fame in pro wrestling's quasi-reality.
"I probably have a legal obligation to report corruption" - here's Trump accusing the Bidens of corruption on Thursday, saying, "my kids could make a fortune" if they did the sameNew reporting indicates Trump's business bilked nearly $500k from taxpayers https://t.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Texas financier Robert Allen Stanford's bid to overturn his conviction and 20143-year prison sentence for running what prosecutors called a $7.2 billion Ponzi scheme that bilked investors in 113 countries.
Chaotic Trump transition leaks: Debates must tackle how Democrats will govern differently MORE resigned in disgrace last year after it was revealed that he bilked the taxpayers out of over $1 million for private charter jets and military air travel.
American Student Loan Consolidators, listed as a member of the trade group Obst addressed, "bilked" consumers out of more than $11 million, according to allegations from an action filed in the FTC's crackdown, while pretending to be affiliated with the Education Department.
By Dena Aubin Two men behind a New York-based debt collection scheme that allegedly bilked consumers out of millions of dollars by buying and collecting on phantom debts have been permanently banned from the collection industry, federal authorities said on Monday.
What's more, Clinton's husband was president at the time of Trump's most egregious offenses and revisiting the way he bilked investors is a reminder that Clinton-era financial regulators were not nearly as protective of middle-class investors as they should have been.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former broker at a New York investment firm was sentenced to nine years in prison on Wednesday after being convicted of helping to run a Ponzi scheme that bilked around 3,800 investors out of more than $150 million.
What's more, Clinton's husband was president at the time of Trump's most egregious offenses, and revisiting the way he bilked investors is a reminder that Clinton-era financial regulators were not nearly as protective of middle-class investors as they should have been.
In August, the agency took action against Aequitas Capital Management, a private equity firm that participated in the predatory lending scheme hatched by Corinthian Colleges — one of the largest and most notorious for-profit colleges, which bilked students for millions of dollars.
" Watson Coleman then said, "It is a little stunning to see that so much money could be spent on whether you're traveling around on a jet while we have this discussion here about whether Americans are being bilked for a lifesaving drug like EpiPen.
Others have fared worse: prosecutors allege that Mr Guerriero ran a "boiler room"—a brokerage that uses high-pressure tactics to sell shares and other investments of little or no value to unwary individuals over the phone—which bilked 150 American investors out of $6.5m.
WASHINGTON, June 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday said it filed fraud charges against the founder of a purported Bitcoin platform and a chain of co-working spaces located in former bars and restaurants, alleging he bilked investors in both companies.
There's definitely an ambient frustration with the megabanks that have destroyed the global economy, bilked consumers with fake accounts and hidden terms, propped themselves up on the comfortable elbow of your overdraft fees, routinely discriminated against people of color, and on and on and on.
NEW YORK, Feb 24 (Reuters) - A former broker at a New York investment firm was sentenced to nine years in prison on Wednesday after being convicted of helping to run a Ponzi scheme that bilked around 3,800 investors out of more than $150 million.
For years a teenager living just outside of London helped run an elaborate blackmail operation that bilked honest porn-site visitors out of their hard-earned cash — which he proceeded to blow on drugs, luxury hotels, gambling, sex workers, and at least one fancy £5,000 Rolex watch.
Rather than living off a vast royal fortune, Gignac had been funding his lavish lifestyle with money he bilked from investors, who believed he was an actual Saudi prince with a significant stake in Saudi Aramco, the oil giant controlled by the real Saudi royal family.
BERLIN — After months of secret negotiations, a shadowy Russian bilked American spies out of $100,000 last year, promising to deliver stolen National Security Agency cyberweapons in a deal that he insisted would also include compromising material on President Trump, according to American and European intelligence officials.
The prosecution said Andrew Caspersen, a scion of a wealthy business family, should get as much as a 15-year-plus prison sentence for executing a Ponzi-like scam that collectively bilked about a dozen of his clients, family members, and his investment company out of roughly $46 million.
Blake and his lawyer, Harlan Braun, suggested in interviews immediately after the shooting that Bakley — who both the defense and prosecution later conceded was a career grifter of men — may have been murdered by a former boyfriend or one of the many men she had bilked in con schemes.
The CWA report is filled with examples of security breaches emanating from overseas call centers and targeting Americans, such as a massive scam operating out of an Indian call center that, per the Department of Justice, bilked more than 85033,000 Americans out of hundreds of millions of dollars.
But his work for World Patent Marketing — a company shut down by a federal judge this year after it was accused by the Federal Trade Commission of running "a scam that has bilked thousands of consumers out of millions of dollars" — has also sounded the alarm among politicians and legal officials.
Detroit execs are on the front lines of managing what a lot of longtime Trump observers have known for years: The president claims to be a dealmaking business genius, but his business background is small-time real-estate development for a rinky-dink family operation punctuated with bankruptcies and bilked partners.
When Dan Levy first proposed the "East River Skyway" in 270, it was hard to miss a reference to Lyle Lanley, the shuckster from "The Simpsons" who bilked a pie-in-the-sky idea that Springfield didn't necessarily want, or need: a shiny, brand spankin' new (but not necessarily functional) monorail.
Staff members worked to break up and inform the public about multiplying tax scams, including one run from India-based call centers in which callers impersonating I.R.S. agents bilked people, many of them recent immigrants, of more $100 million since 2013, and an email identity-theft scam targeting Hotmail users.
Luxury home developer Woodbridge Group of Companies on Monday said it aims to return between 40 percent and 70 percent of its remaining funds to note- and unit-holders to end a bankruptcy that resulted from an admitted Ponzi scheme that bilked over 8,400 investors out of more than $1.2 billion.
A lawsuit accusing the federal court system of treating nearly a billion dollars in online access fees like a slush fund got a favorable reception on Monday from an appeals court, where the main question that judges seemed interested in debating was how to calculate the extent to which the public was bilked.
Here's what to watch if you're in the mood for fun... We are living in a golden age of scammers, and Hustlers is based on one of the most riveting scam stories in recent memory: a group of strip club employees who bilked their Wall Street clients out of their not-so-hard-earned cash.
These include the CityTime scandal, in which executives at the Science Applications International Corporation bilked New York City out of half a billion dollars, and the sweeping investigation into day care providers known as Operation Pay Care, which exposed a million-dollar fraud and resulted in the convictions of 15 people, including seven city employees.
Jordan Belfort, the so-called "Wolf of Wall Street" behind the 1990s-era Stratton Oakmont pump-and-dump scheme that authorities estimated bilked investors of at least $200 million, told the Financial Times in a recent interview that people should have have been a bit more cautious before pumping sketchy ICOs full of billions of dollars throughout 2017.
What makes it different than most is that it is a football team, with a one-year-old, $1 million stadium it bilked half of from the public, engaging a teenager to drum up some more fan interest (hmm, maybe those new stadiums aren't such a necessity for teams after all??) in a team that just won big against the Saints and former star running back Adrian Peterson.
Even before Lasch's book, Ronald Reagan, during his first run for president, held up an actual career criminal — a con woman, identity thief and suspected kidnapper believed to have bilked the government of untold thousands of dollars — as a symbol of excess, conjuring around her a world of fantastical "welfare queens": enemies of the bootstrapping individualist spirit of America, coddled and demanding and overly dependent on programs they were, in fact, legally entitled to use.
But whether they're looking for sexcapades or long walks on the beach, the desire for companionship and connection makes people vulnerable to a most 21st-century crime: the online romance scam, which bilked victims of all ages and orientations out of more than $200 million last year, according to the F.B.I. "The drive to find a preferred mate is extremely powerful," said Lucy Brown, a clinical professor of neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, who studies the brain activity of people in love.

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