Thomlinson admitted five charges of dishonestly obtaining money transfers, one of using a false instrument, and one of attempting to dishonestly obtain a money transfer.

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Cerit had denied two counts of using false instrument and one count of causing or committing a false statement to appear in a nomination paper.

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He was found guilty of two counts of using false instrument and one count of causing or committing a false statement to appear in a nomination paper.

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Karl Karlsen, 53, of Romulus was indicted Tuesday in a Seneca County court on charges that include concealing a will, perjury, making an apparently false statement and offering a false instrument for filing, according to local media reports.

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Using a false instrument under the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act: That between 26 March 1986 and 7 July 1987, he used the A4 diary with the intention of inducing the newspaper and its editor to accept it as genuine.

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It found Di Stefano guilty of nine counts of obtaining a money transfer by deception, eight counts of fraud, three counts of acquiring criminal property, two counts of using a false instrument, one count of attempting to obtain a money transfer by deception, one count of obtaining property by deception and one count of using criminal property.

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The typical statutory definition of forgery involves an intent by the defendant to defraud, deceive, or injure through the false alteration of some written instrument.

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