1.   Amid this poverty, the men in the Kremlin continue parading as a political elite, clinging to power and skimming money from the budget.

2.   He is also skimming money from the school budget to build a large stadium on land occupied by an animal shelter.

3.   He said he knew of similar payoffs to Billmyer and schemes that Joselyn concocted to skim money from education and advertising programs.

4.   Money skimmed from the casinos, Denton and Morris write, is distributed to mob bosses around the country.

5.   Similarly, low salaries that prevent many civil servants from having enough for their own retirement tempt others to skim money for themselves, said one senior anti-graft investigator.

6.   The Genovese crime family oversaw the operations from a Mulberry Street social club, the grand jury said, and skimmed money from rents paid by vendors.

7.   Authorities claim that the network skimmed money sent through the businesses, called hawalas, by Somali residents of the United States to relatives in their homeland.

8.   Authorities have alleged Barakaat transferred money from Somalis in the United States to their families oversees, but skimmed money off the top to direct toward al-Qaida.

9.   Authorities said the networks skimmed money for the al-Qaeda network.

10.   He implied someone was skimming money off purchases of helicopters, because they were being bought for more than their market value.