1.   At the time, Perot confirmed that he ordered checks on some people suspected of embezzling funds.

2.   A corruption investigation has accused Bucaram, a flamboyant populist whose nickname is El Loco, of embezzling funds from a government education program.

3.   Former White House deputy counsel Vincent Foster committed suicide, and former associate attorney general Webster Hubbell was jailed for embezzling funds from law firm clients.

4.   He has been jailed for four years for embezzling federal funds to Chechnya when he was mayor of Grozny.

5.   His first lawyer had to drop out of the case after he was charged with embezzling funds from a nun.

6.   One person briefed by associates of Doyle said the company suspected him of rigging the books to create artificially high profit, but not of embezzling funds.

7.   Since then, the two sides have accused each other of colluding with government officials to rig auctions of state property and financing it all by embezzling state funds.

8.   Tham was an officer of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and was convicted of embezzling funds from the local affiliate of that organization.

9.   A court in central Vietnam has sentenced two government accountants to life in prison for embezzling funds meant for disabled war veterans, an official report said Monday.

10.   Although the list is not long, the Islamist lawmaker said, it is topped by a new law that stiffens penalties for embezzling public funds.