One such scheme appears to have been a phony private placement in Fremont, Calif.
We now live in a phony economic world where central bankers rule without check.
Critics are left with the option of attacking him as an extremist or a phony.
Our crook-sniffing equipment is sensitive and we can usually smell a phony a good way off.
According to Grasso, Spitzer is a political grandstander, a serial leaker and a phony.
By repeatedly pushing him on specifics, Gore exposed Bush for what he really is: a phony.
This is delicious red meat, easy for the tough-talkers to flex a phony biceps about wimp culture.
"It's so easy to type up a phony one, " says Jay Starkman, a certified public accountant in Atlanta.
Somebody is preparing a phony return for you and they phony it up extra without telling you about it.
Keeping collateral at a phony valuation fraud and a distortion of bank reporting.
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Each accuses the other of owning a phony set of unregistered bearer shares.
We have a phony psychic whose "readings" actually are near the mark and a wealth of coincidences the author renders plausibly.
"It's a phony charge, " Fabiani said, adding that "the shots are being called by Newt, " a reference to House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
They quickly expose him as a phony, a buffoon, and a talentless hack, and then spend the rest of the movie punishing him.
This was offered as proof that the President is a phony, when an equally valid explanation is that people laugh at funerals all the time.
Scratch a political populist and you'll find a phony, every time.
An even sadder case was that of Thomas Chambers, clearly a legitimate pastor, who managed to blunder into about everything a phony church does, including corporation sole.
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He gives the victim a phony control number to document the fake fraud investigation, and with that, he asks for the three-digit code on the back of the card.
But, barring some remarkable change in attitude, Obama is mostly irrelevant except to the extent that he can make matters worse by luring Republicans into a phony tax-hike deal.
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At Kennedy, one suspect was removed from a plane and two others -- including a man with a phony pilot's license -- were taken into custody at a pilot's lounge.
To Jackson, Clinton was a phony, a man who pretended to be your best friend one minute and forgot you the next, a man who would do anything to get ahead.
He calls the victim and pretends to be from the security and fraud department of the card issuer, gives a phony badge number and demonstrates that he knows the customer's account information.
Andy Dufresne explained to his friend Red (aka Morgan Freeman) just how easy it is to invent a phony silent partner and perpetrate financial fraud if you know how the system works.
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They held that if government agents asked if you had done something criminal, you could deny it without being charged with a felony false statement so long as you didn't embellish your denial with other lies (like a phony alibi).
While those caught simply using a phony document to buy alcohol typically escape with a community punishment in Maryland, Jacoby says, it will remain on their record for three years - with potentially serious consequences when they apply for graduate jobs.
Despite the Speaker referring to it as a phony issue, we think there are signs that Republicans understand that it would be a terrible thing for the 7.4 million Americans who would be affected if these loan rates were allowed to double.
In the end, we got us a fairly simple case of Tomsha-Miguel writing a phony-baloney letter from a make-believe congressional aide to herself, and then sending this fantasy correspondence to her unsuspecting client in a oddball attempt to convince him that she had resolved the IRS problem.
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First of all, I would say that it's based on anonymous sources, so I'm not sure that it's true, and hopefully it's not because it reports that Speaker of the House John Boehner, in a closed meeting with House Republicans, called the discussion over whether or not to allow student interest loan rates to double a phony debate.
In one letter, Chapman said he'd let Spiro decide whether Lennon was a "phony" or not, a reference to troubled "Catcher in the Rye" narrator Holden Caulfield, who refers to people as "phonies" in the book, written by J.
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