"levied charges" for leveled charges

[sagehen]

>>From an article in /The Nation*/ :
"....Blackwater's  general cousel, Andrew Howell, declined to respond to
many of the charges levied against the company by the families....."

(leveled charges= made accusations, &c;
levied charges=as in costs, fines, penalties, taxes, tariffs, &c.)

Confusion between these two expressions would seem to be almost inevitable,
since not only their sound & appearance, but also their meanings  resemble
each other.
AM
* Jeremy Scahill:"Bush's Shadow Army" April 2, 2007 (vol 284, no. 13).

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