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"We're using a 55-year-old statute to compel immediate payment from unscrupulous businesses that have fleeced their employees of earned wages for years," state Controller John Chiang said at a news conference in Fresno on Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2014

With no more equipment than a telephone, sharp Canadian stock promoters have fleeced gullible Americans of millions by palming off worthless oil and uranium shares at inflated prices.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1985, a San Diego currency trader named David Dominelli was revealed to have fleeced more than 1,000 investors to the tune of $80 million.

From Time Magazine Archive

They who were sent to be the shepherds of men have fleeced the flock for their own adorning and then fought amongst themselves to see who should wear the choicest robes.

From Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals by Cope, Henry Frederick

This gentleman, however, who possessed at once a rapacious heart and a stupid head, might have fleeced half the country had the one been upon a par with the other.

From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William