31.   Bear Stearns said Thursday that the fraud charges were merely technical in nature.

32.   Bennett pleaded no contest to the fraud charges in May, two weeks before his trial was to begin.

33.   Both men appealed those convictions, saying prosecutors filed single-count securities fraud charges that actually included a number of separate criminal allegations.

34.   A federal judge is expected to approve a settlement of securities fraud charges against the two former county officials soon.

35.   A few months later, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed fraud charges against Aura, alleging its financial reports misled investors.

36.   A former Media Vision Technology Inc. executive pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges that he helped inflate company revenue by shipping unordered products.

37.   A former national sales manager of Gtech was cleared of fraud charges by a Federal judge in Kentucky.

38.   A lot these fraud charge for autographs and the only draft they care about comes out of a tap in the taverns where they pay nothing.

39.   A Georgia judge refused Tuesday to release to the public case records underlying medical journal fraud charges against two controversial Stanford University surgeons.

40.   A number of Cendant officials have since pleaded guilty to fraud charges, and the investigation is continuing.