21.   Regulators are also looking into whether their value was artificially inflated and what executives were involved in those decisions.

22.   Schneider is accused of inflating the value of his upscale retail properties by presenting forged invoices from a Sydney, Australia real-estate developer.

23.   The fingerprint-identification company was accused of inflating the value of company assets in its public statements.

24.   The fraud charges would relate to allegations he falsely inflated the value of property while the credit fraud charges to accusations he gave false information.

25.   The former officers of HBOC are accused of initiating a series of accounting irregularities to inflate the value of HBOC before the merger with McKesson.

26.   The main goal of the boiler-room operations usually is inflating the value of a worthless stock by convincing large numbers of people to buy, regulators said.

27.   The phony companies traded the stocks back and forth, inflating their value.

28.   The risk, particularly for a young company, is that it might generate considerable revenue, inflating share values without the earnings to support them.

29.   The strong reaction to it inflates its value.

30.   Their values are further inflated on the open market by their Super Bowl credentials.