41.   A partner in the firm was charged with fraud at Sunbeam, and the firm itself decided to settle fraud charges involving cooked books at Waste Management.

42.   A Spanish high court had rejected a request by Russian prosecutors to extradite him to Moscow to face fraud charges.

43.   A third Cal Micro executive, former President Surenda Gupta, had agreed to plead guilty to fraud charges and to testify against Desaigoudar and Henke.

44.   A top official of Towers Financial, the New York bill collecting company, pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges.

45.   A year ago Tuesday, Montana authorities arrested Schweitzer and a Freemen colleague on federal fraud charges.

46.   A.R. Baron, and several of its executives, were indicted earlier this year on securities fraud charges.

47.   ADM fired the whistleblower, claiming he stole millions from the company -- a claim that led earlier this month to his indictment on federal fraud charges.

48.   After an electronic manhunt, he was captured in North Carolina, where he was indicted earlier this year on cellular telephone fraud charges.

49.   After several well-known companies lost money on highly volatile transactions, Bankers Trust settled fraud charges and partially covered the losses from many of these companies.

50.   All nine justices voted to revive the mail fraud charges.