He also admitted engaging in a huge check-kiting scheme to disguise cash shortages.

About half of the Freemen face Federal charges involving a check-kiting scheme.

He was wanted as a material witness in a $1.7 million check-kiting scheme.

He is to appear on Wednesday before a Federal grand jury in Washington investigating a $1.7 million check-kiting scheme.

In March 1995, officers at the credit union discovered the check-kiting scheme and froze the Waldholtzes' account.

Resnick was convicted for his role in the check-kiting scheme, and served 19 months in federal prison.

Pierce's record check uncovered three arrests for check-kiting schemes and one for insurance fraud.

A judge later agreed, sending him to prison for three years for a check-kiting scheme that had spiked her 1994 campaign coffers by $3 million.

They are more likely to equate transience with arrested development or a shiftiness a step away from check-kiting schemes.

"As a matter of fact, our preliminary inquiry has already unearthed evidence that a classic check-kiting scheme may have occurred."