31.   Cellular carriers, including GTE, maintain that the Metroplex does not rank high in cell fraud cases.

32.   City officials said they knew of no other fraud cases in the city that came close to the enormity of the scheme.

33.   Defense lawyers will probably appeal their motion to remove U.S. District Court Judge Lee Gagliardi from the Medicare fraud case.

34.   Customers are rarely held responsible for money lost in fraud cases.

35.   Eliciting cheers and tears from relatives and associates, a federal judge on Tuesday acquitted two lawyers of charges in a major Medicare fraud case.

36.   English said he thought he was handling a routine fraud case involving an identification card.

37.   Federal law is better suited to trying Wall Street fraud cases, federal officials say.

38.   Fischel has long been an outspoken critic of the securities fraud cases.

39.   Florida trails only California and New York in the number of identity fraud cases reported to the Federal Trade Commission.

40.   Federal and state officials all over the country are trotting out welfare fraud cases like cheap melodramas to prove changes are necessary.