21.   Floating myself the cash, I wrote a technically bad check and took the first flight out on Friday.

22.   Geraldine Scott, an unemployed railroad clerk, said she was about to be arrested for writing bad checks when she turned to the Defenders Service.

23.   Give him the bad checks so he can track down the culprits and make them pay up.

24.   Hayes will appear in court Wednesday and plead guilty to a reduced misdemeanor count for writing bad checks.

25.   He also faced charges of writing bad checks in several northern New Jersey towns and charges of aggravated assault in Leonia.

26.   He and other managers are accused of writing bad checks, opening bank accounts under false names and organizing a scheme to defraud suppliers.

27.   He often wears a baseball-type cap and sunglasses and has written a string of bad checks to finance his flight, officials said.

28.   Her savings and checking accounts were drained and she had bad checks bouncing all across Kansas City.

29.   Her sales are brisk, she added, though she also gets more bad checks, mostly from guards.

30.   In addition to the Conrail insider trading, the indictment alleges Fenjiro used bad checks and false identities to open securities trading accounts with several stock brokers.