"The phones have absolutely been ringing off the hook today, and people are angry at these phony charges that have been brought against the Governor."

The officers, he said, using "trumped-up and phony charges violated the rights of citizens who are entitled to have the law enforced fairly."

"The minute they drop those phony charges against him he'll talk like crazy."

I can't stand the thought of you being in jail for years on some phony charge!

Hearing these phony charges dragged out yet again pushed me out of my seat.

After thatwell, there are those phony commerce-raiding charges you told me about.

"It is a phony charge," he said.

Bumped up against the machine, and got disbarred on a phony 567 charge of subornation of perjury.

Four officers are said to have collared innocent passengers on phony charges in the belief that inflated arrest records would lead to cushier assignments.