This signature then "proves" that Bob signed the fraudulent contract.

He said lawyers for Ferranti were examining the suspected fraudulent contracts.

Suppose Mallory wants to trick Bob into signing a fraudulent contract.

Mallory's strategy is to generate pairs of one fair and one fraudulent contract.

But the lawsuit describes a program with poor controls that resulted in Columbia's being cheated through fraudulent contracts.

In a similar manner, Mallory also creates a huge number of variations on the fraudulent contract .

Instead, she said, the regulators are helping Enron keep "unjust profits" earned "from fraudulent contracts."

After Bob has signed, Mallory takes the signature and attaches it to the fraudulent contract.

Mr. Woodrick argues that he is not guilty and was induced into military service under a fraudulent contract.

Rothbard opposed fractional reserve banking, which he called a fraudulent contract that should be illegal.

During and after his tenure, suspicions of graft and fraudulent contracts for roadworks came up.

The probabilities differ slightly from the original birthday problem, as Mallory gains nothing by finding two fair or two fraudulent contracts with the same hash.

Reis wrote up the fraudulent contract and had it officially notarized by an assistant notary who was too casual and trusting to read it.

"He should resign because he's part of a fraudulent contract," Mr. Gotbaum said in an interview in his apartment on Central Park West.

Ferranti has sued Mr. Guerin and others for $198 million in connection with three purportedly fraudulent contracts it inherited from International Signal.

Federal prosecutors said Mr. Davis had arranged a fraudulent contract in which Mr. Ansara received $11,250 from a printing company for work never performed.

Fraudulent contracts, patronage in the highest offices, kickbacks, false vouchers - all the usual tools of corruption were raised to an art form by Tweed's Tammany Club.

Ferranti has been forced to revise 1988-89 profits to show a sharp drop after finding what it said were fraudulent contracts entered into by its American subsidiary International Signal and Control Group.

Since the Government crackdown, some dishonest practices such as the pocketing by agencies of funds due to workers and the signing of fraudulent contracts have become much more difficult, travel and recruiting agents acknowledged.

The Texas Attorney General, in a court filing, has accused his predecessor of giving a fraudulent contract to a lawyer friend who was awarded $260 million in legal fees from the state's settlement with the tobacco companies.

She then applies the hash function to all these variations until she finds a version of the fair contract and a version of the fraudulent contract which have the same hash value, .

It is unclear what specific effects the fraudulent contracts for the police academy had, but Colonel Hopfengardner was also involved in at least one other failed program to equip the Iraqi forces, said American officials who were in the region at the time.

In a nine-count indictment, King is accused of directing his staff to submit phony expenses and a fraudulent contract in order to recover training expenses for Chavez, after the fighter cut his nose in training for a bout with Harold Brazier.

In 2005 it was alleged that Dere Awosika, a close associate of the first lady Stella Obasanjo, had been involved in award of fraudulent contracts to herself and to Hope Uzodinma, a friend of President Olusegun Obasanjo.

In the suit it filed against Mr. Minkow this week, ZZZZ Best charged that Interstate Appraisal and its president, Thomas Padgett, had been part of a scheme to divert funds from ZZZZ Best by arranging for apparently fraudulent contracts.