Collecting fingerprints is useless for uncovering scams like government employees' making up phony cases or applicants' lying about their income.
For five years, he sat in jail serving a 30-year sentence on charges that he was a Maoist terrorist -- a phony case cobbled together with a forged confession and the false testimony of a neighbor.
Most worrisome most about Perkins' reckless rhetoric is that he has repeatedly made the phony case that liberals and the gay and lesbian community are trying to take away the rights of Christian fundamentalists.
"They gave them a phony case number making it sound like it was a filed case in court, all in what was an apparent attempt by the debt collector to get the debtor to call back," said Thomas Syta, assistant regional director for the FTC, in an interview with CaliforniaWatch.org.org
From the Nigerien yellowcake and the uranium centrifuge tubes that didn't exist to the torture that did (check out this infuriating new Frontline documentary), the factory for manufacturing the phony case for war was headquartered in the vice president's office.
(In addition to Frey, Winfrey promoted what may be the strangest phony-memoir case of all: that of Herman Rosenblat, a Holocaust survivor who embellished his true story of survival in the camps with an invented, sentimental twist — his "angel," a little girl who, he claimed, threw apples to him over the camp's fence).
But the Texas senator ultimately will have to persuade more voters to embrace his pure form of conservatism and reject Trump as a phony, a case he has been trying to make for weeks.
In some cases, the phony solicitors claimed to be collecting for the Red Cross.
Using the various studies, the researchers created an interactive map that shows where they found cases of phony fish.
Counterfeit money surfaces regularly in Europe, and the police have seen a surge in cases of phony marks and lire, perhaps from counterfeiters trying to unload their reserves.
