1.   Prosecutors pleaded with the jurors to not let Edwards get away again, to not let him defraud them as he had defrauded their state.

2.   The reinsurers have charged GE and Emlico defrauded the state to move to Bermuda, where they could control the liquidation.

3.   Throneberry was convicted of defrauding the state and was sentenced to a three-year term at the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor.

4.   With few laws and little government effort to prosecute tax cheats, many Argentines have openly boasted about how much they have defrauded the state.

5.   Gusinsky, whose media outlets have repeatedly criticized the Kremlin, spent several days in jail in June on charges of defrauding the state.

6.   If found guilty of defrauding the state, the public officials could face prison sentences of up to six years and a ban on holding future public office.

7.   Russian police attracted world attention when masked officers carrying machine guns arrested media mogul Vladimir Gusinsky on charges of defrauding the state in a privatization deal.

8.   The government said Tuesday it will investigate whether ousted dictator Kamuzu Banda broke business laws and defrauded the state of taxable profits as he amassed a huge private fortune.

9.   Hasan was found guilty of defrauding the state in a scam involving an aerial mapping and photography project by his company PT Mapindo Parama.

10.   Defence lawyers had argued that Burke signed the claim forms without scrutinising them or appreciating their significance and that he had not intended to defraud the state.