31.   In fact, he faces an indictment for a bad check he wrote to the loan sharks.

32.   In Lowell one year, a boy who wrote a string of bad checks at the Christmas auction had his wages garnisheed and was sentenced to community service.

33.   Investigators believe Pecard is an opportunist who wrote bad checks and perpetrated frauds whenever it seemed expedient.

34.   It had a devilish time, for example, retrieving bad checks written to big customers like supermarket chains after they bounced.

35.   It also told authorities Willig had written bad checks.

36.   It was one of a number of bad checks that McCasland said he inadvertently wrote along the trail, citing poor bookkeeping and slow credit-card processing.

37.   Last November most stopped accepting U.S. Postal Service money orders because they were getting so many demands to cover bad checks sent back to them from the United States.

38.   Lojas Americanas said it turned around losses from bad checks after it began to charge interest on post-dated checks in the fourth quarter.

39.   Mauerer, who had been convicted of passing bad checks and needed money to pay restitution, told lies to the FBI during the investigation, the attorneys said.

40.   More than a dozen of the adults are wanted on charges that include circulating millions of dollars in bad checks and threatening to kill a federal judge.