11.   The payments settle lawsuits originally filed by former laboratory employees under a federal law that lets whistleblowers share in the proceeds of suits that uncover fraud against the government.

12.   The staff of The Orange County Register won in the category of investigative reporting for stories that uncovered fraud in a Southern California fertility clinic.

13.   Then, in Operation Senior Sentinel, the FBI first used private citizens in its effort to uncover telemarketing fraud.

14.   When German authorities later declared the diaries a hoax, Newsweek ran a second cover story suggesting that the magazine had played a major role in uncovering the fraud.

15.   Department officials said a special probe is unwarranted because its internal auditors have worked with the FBI and other investigators to uncover fraud.

16.   Grein was one of the people who worked alongside King, and helped uncover the fraud.

17.   In addition, her department was using computer investigations to try to uncover welfare fraud, such as one name with several identity numbers, Fraser-Moleketi said.

18.   More often, they never get the money because investigators like Brownlee help uncover the fraud.

19.   Mori remained in the Philippines under an assumed name after his faked death until investigators from the two countries uncovered the fraud.

20.   But he insisted that no system of supervision could uncover all fraud.