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hot check
noun
A check with (not enough money in the bank to back it up), written fraudulently.
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"I would never have remembered him if he didn't write that hot check," Mr. Livingston said.
"Yeah, she's so hot! Check out those nipples," I'd say, joining my voice to the chorus of testosterone in study hall.
In May 2006, she wrote a letter to Mr. Perry (copying it to reporters, of course) saying the swap was "the largest tax increase in history and leaves the largest hot check in Texas history".
If you thought the exterior of the sun was hot, check out its corona.
A contribution to an ERISA plan that is a fraudulent transfer is little different than somebody who sends in a hot check as their contribution, and are given credit for the check before it bounces -- it is simply a contribution that never actually made its way into the plan, and can be avoided.
If a defendant pleads guilty, or is found guilty, of writing a hot check we set up a payment plan.
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His mother, Tonya Dean, stole money, largely by writing hot checks.
One of the youngest fugitives ever sought by the Federal Bureau of Investigation was a Bronx-born con man named Frank Abagnale Jr., who spent five years in the 1960's writing $2.5 million in hot checks and masquerading as an airline pilot, a pediatrician, a lawyer and a sociology professor.
But Facebook's idea is particularly interesting because it's based around the hot check-in space right now.
But Texas law is clear that checks written to secure a payday loan, like Jones', are not "hot checks".
"We don't do it," Escamilla said, referring to the usage of the criminal hot checks process to enforce the terms of lending agreements.
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