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Example sentences for: crooks

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The latter is unearned and knee-jerk: "They're all a bunch of crooks."
Law enforcement authorities describe these detailed reports as essential in their battle against drug traffickers, terrorists, Medicare crooks, and embezzlers, as well as international money launderers.
An article claims that Medicare fraud artists, including Russian crooks, bilk the government of billions of dollars per year.
Surely it cannot have surprised anyone to learn that Russia is run by crooks.
The question has always been: What kind of crooks are they?