Word: bilked
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...Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, posters and playbills were printed up headlining Richard Dreyfuss, who would be taking the leading role in London as Max Bialystock, a shyster showman who puts on a surefire flop so the tax collectors will never spot that it was designed to bilk hordes of investors. But just days before the American import was set to begin previews last Friday, Dreyfuss seemed to be drawing a little too much inspiration from his determined-to- fail character. First the star of Mr. Holland's Opus and Jaws admitted to Metro Life magazine that he can neither holler...
...heart of the Spitzer probe are two practices that, by some estimates, collectively bilk fund investors out of as much as $4 billion a year. One is late trading, which is illegal. Spitzer brought grand-larceny and securities-fraud charges against Theodore Sihpol III, a former broker at Bank of America, alleging that Sihpol helped Canary Partners, a hedge fund, place orders to buy and sell Nations Funds shares as late as 6:30 p.m. at the funds' 4 p.m. (closing) price. The scheme allowed Canary, which has settled its case with Spitzer for $40 million, to profit from intervening...
Originally a Victorian parlor game, bunco made its way to the U.S. in the mid-1850s as a gambling game known first as "banco" and later as "bunco" or "bunko." During the Gold Rush, a crooked gambler in San Francisco is said to have used the game to bilk some Forty-Niners out of their money, turning its name into a general term for cons. In 1996 Carlsbad, Calif., toy marketer Leslie Crouch packaged its components under the title It's Bunco Time!!! and started marketing it to women. Now, on any given night, groups all over the country gather...
While Netanyahu had behaved with "ugliness," said Rubinstein, he did not want to risk a courtroom failure trying to prove the ex-PM attempted to bilk the state of as much as $100,000 in private services he got from a contractor. Nor would the state follow up on accusations that upon leaving office, he pinched hundreds of expensive official gifts. Netanyahu has denied any wrongdoing...