11.   But for some of the loans, regulators said a branch manager forged customer signatures on forms approving the transfers.

12.   He did not publicly acknowledge his signature had been forged until Democrats pressed the issue.

13.   He said the presidents of two locals had said their signatures were forged when a district council official sought to certify how their locals had voted.

14.   He then obtained refund anticipation loan checks from Beneficial Bank and Banc One of Ohio, which he then forged signatures for the fictitious taxpayers and took the money.

15.   If Hamanaka forged signatures, it might explain why his superiors knew nothing while Merrill Lynch thought he had authorization.

16.   Judge Jacqueline Silbermann, the state administrative judge for matrimonial matters, said she had seen many cases in which divorce papers were improperly served and signatures were forged.

17.   Kizu says the signatures were forged, although the issuer of the notes insisted the credit union had agreed to guarantee them.

18.   Last week Hamanaka was arrested in Japan and charged with forging signatures that said, in effect, that he could buy and sell all the copper he wanted.

19.   One day, she went in to see the counselor, and he had a stack of notes this big where I had forged her signature.

20.   Ryan said that some of those charged who were not government employees had forged the signatures of dead tenants to enable the rent subsidies to continue.