Benefactor sent two checks for $100,000 to Connecticut for flood relief.
Mr. Bostic tried to deposit the two checks — for $190,000 and $230,000 — into his own business accounts in Elizabeth, N.J., prosecutors said.
I didn't like the idea of putting two checks for the same month in the mail — if both were cashed, I'd risk bouncing other checks.
The brother, Ronald W. Finkelstein, explained that in early 1993, Mr. Pirro's law firm wrote three checks for services related to Mrs. Pirro's run for district attorney.
But if Ms. Mason has to pay the full price on Cobra, she and her husband will have little left over from their two checks for living expenses.
With fifty checks for thirty dollars each, along with matching funds and bonuses, Sarbanes said, "you've just raised ten thousand five hundred dollars by talking to real people instead of going to some K Street fund-raiser".
At the same time, the company issued checks and wire transfers totaling $660,000, much of it to the same group of people, including two checks for more than $100,000 apiece that bounced because of insufficient funds.
Another developer testified that in 1989 he handed Mr. Haughey four checks for about $31,000 each -- one for the Lenihan transplant fund and the three others for Fianna Fail.
Cece Stewart, Citibank's president of consumer and commercial banking, writing in a company memo this week, gave the example of a customer with $100 in a checking account who wrote three checks, for $90, $35 and $25.
