41.   Following are a few investment fraud cases involving Georgians that were recently prosecuted by state or federal officials.

42.   For their part, state and city prosecutors, constantly faced with budget cuts, are hard pressed to pursue out-of-state fraud cases.

43.   Growing increasingly annoyed at the continuing string of small-time bank fraud cases coming before him, US District Judge Edward Harrington finally had seen enough.

44.   GUILTY PLEAS IN STOCK FRAUD CASE Seven defendants in a stock fraud case pleaded guilty to attempted enterprise corruption and face prison terms of one to six years.

45.   He has proposed bringing more criminal charges in insurance fraud cases and requiring mandatory jail sentences for serious fraud offenses.

46.   He was investigated, and exonerated, in a stock fraud case.

47.   However, during a huge political scandal that wracked the entire government, two years ago Gardini committed suicide after being implicated in a fraud case.

48.   Hunt said he viewed the case as a credit-card fraud case and said he believed all along prison time was appropriate.

49.   In a related agreement, Madden settled a civil securities fraud case filed last June by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

50.   In a fraud case two years ago, she was reversed in part because of her scalding remarks to a defense lawyer.