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Attorney General Kris Mayes and Gov. Katie Hobbs in May announced a massive investigation into billing fraud that state officials say has bilked Arizona out of hundreds of millions of Medicaid dollars.

From Washington Times • Oct. 19, 2023

Then there is Mr. Whitaker’s connection to a defunct patent promotion company the Federal Trade Commission called “an invention-promotion scam that has bilked thousands of consumers out of millions of dollars.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2018

Yet he doesn’t seem to mind if they know he has bilked them.

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2017

But I fear he has bilked me over the address.

From Martin Hewitt, Investigator by Morrison, Arthur