No Blank Check for Paulson

With two paychecks, or three paychecks, I could solve a lot of my family's problems.

We have heard about parliament members getting bribed under the cover of making donations to charity organisations and sponsoring orphans.

They mimic bank accounts by allowing investors to write checks and promise that their investment s value will not fall.

The hijackers on 11 September 2001, Muhamad Atta and Marwan al Shehhi, for example, maintained a joint checking account in the United States.

Mr. Samaali was charged in two separate cases one concerned the counterfeiting of six cheques amounting to a total of 180 dinars, and the other the forging of a US 100 banknote.

They know that confiscating the checkbooks of Russia and Iran would probably make the world a lot safer than building another submarine or aircraft carrier.

The public prosecutor brought the accused before the investigating judge of that court for fraud and forgery of cheques pursuant to article 291 of the Criminal Code and 411 bis of the Commercial Code.

The Government states that, having been brought before the court for forgery of six cheques, the individual concerned was sentenced by the criminal division of the court of first instance of Tunis to 20 years' imprisonment.

Hal Taussig and his wife have given away about 3 million, amounting to 90 of their assets, and now live happily on their social security checks.

But the collection of payroll taxes from tens of millions of workers and the writing of tens of millions of pension checks is the kind of routine, semi automatic task that government can do well.

A recent investigation uncovered a stockpile of chequebooks, credit cards and forged documents which had been used to obtain goods which could then be returned for cash.

We got a flood of donations mostly 13 dollar checks because New York Times readers are very generous in tiny amounts but then, we got a money transfer for 10,000 really nice guy.

In the first case (counterfeit of six cheques), Mr. Samaali was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment and a fine of 60,000 dinars by the criminal division of the court in Tunis in a judgement delivered on 3 February 2003, which was upheld on appeal.

Their co conspirators in that plot held powers of attorney over others' accounts to allow them access, and some used checks or ATM or debit cards they had been provided to transfer money contained in co conspirators' accounts.

Money market funds take excess cash from investors and use it to purchase short term IOUs from businesses, banks, and other financial institutions. They mimic bank accounts by allowing investors to write checks and promise that their investment s value will not fall.