11.   If the transactions are suspect, such as fees for outside services above market value, the government could file fiscal fraud charges.

12.   If the government wanted to file a felony charge, he said Buffett told officials, Salomon would plead guilty.

13.   In September, the federal government filed a major lawsuit that charges cigarette makers with fraud and seeks to recover billions in health care expenses.

14.   In the last three years, the federal government has filed friend-of-the court briefs in a half-dozen malpractice cases against HMOs.

15.   It is the first time the government has filed charges under the act since it went into effect in April.

16.   Last October, when the government filed its consent decree case against Microsoft, the suit came four days after a Washington meeting between Klein and Neukom.

17.   Kolnhofer was critically wounded in a shootout Tuesday, a few hours after the federal government filed a petition to strip him of U.S. citizenship.

18.   Ma was released then, though he was briefly detained later when the government filed appeals.

19.   Only with that notice of appeal in hand could the government file a motion for expedited appeal.

20.   Otherwise, he said, the government can file lawsuits, garnish wages, seize property and hold up tax refunds.