Sentence examples for bogus checks from inspiring English sources

Mr. Haggerty even wrote out bogus checks from Special Election Operations, Mr. Vance charged, in an effort to cover up the crime.

When the databases were created more than 20 years ago, they were intended to help banks guard against serial fraud artists, like those accused of writing bogus checks.

Melton was already creating bogus checks on her computer -- all she needed was a quick over-the-shoulder glance at someone's account number as he paid for groceries and she could generate some fast cash.

As chief investigator in the office of the Brooklyn district attorney, he cracked a high-profile embezzlement case in 1946 after it was discovered that somebody had written bogus checks for the Mergenthaler Linotype Company and that $800,000 was missing.

Prosecutors argued that Mr. Snipes showed criminal intent when he sent the government three bogus checks to pay $14 million in taxes and an amended tax return that was subtly altered with software to insert the word "no" before "penalty of perjury".

Ms. Pirro said investigators followed the men, who were operating from an Elmsford motel, to Catskill, where they posed as employees of a local tire recycling company to cash 34 bogus checks for a total of $13,000 at a gas station.

They then mail you a bogus check on "faith" stating that they are "trusting you" and when the money arrives they give the bank just enough information so that the check looks like it clears.

Prosecutors said that the company, the RW Professional Leasing Corporation, concocted elaborate schemes using up to 100 rented mailboxes as far away as California to send phony checks, sham invoices, bogus leases and other false documents to banks in various states.

The prosecution introduced audio tapes of some defendants chuckling about using bogus government checks to cheat creditors.

As part of the plot, the Michigan group issued $550 million of bogus United States Treasury checks that resembled the real thing so closely that the I.R.S. initially accepted one for $750,000.

According to Mr Rove's testimony, Mr Novak told him he had learned and planned to report in a weekend column that Mr Wilson's wife had worked for the CIA, and the circumstances on how her husband travelled to Africa to check bogus claims of alleged nuclear material sales to Iraq.