21.   Berezovsky said he met with prosecutors last week as a possible witness to a fraud case.

22.   Bloch, who is in a New York prison awaiting hearings on the earlier fraud case, has denied cheating investors.

23.   A crucial element of a sports fraud case would be the annual statement signed by each athlete.

24.   A purloined prisoner in an important state securities fraud case has put two powerful prosecutors on a collision course.

25.   But a federal judge dismissed the tax fraud case, adding a stinging rebuke of Starr, accusing the prosecutor of overstepping his authority.

26.   But a federal judge dismissed the tax fraud case and added a stinging rebuke of Starr, saying the prosecutor had overstepped his authority.

27.   But Justice Department officials decided to bring a simpler fraud case.

28.   But they have been figuring prominently in penny-stock fraud cases for decades.

29.   But US Attorney Donald K. Stern said the case is the largest fraud case involving a medical laboratory in New England.

30.   Case law shows that materiality and reliance are irrelevant in bank fraud cases, prosecutors argue.