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cook the books

   Also found in: Financial, Idioms, Wikipedia 0.01 sec.
make fallacious entries in or otherwise manipulate a financial record book for fraudulent purposes.

See also: Book



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The FBI on Friday arrested two computer programmers allegedly employed by Wall Street conman Bernard Madoff to cook the books in his decades-long, multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme.
The FBI on Friday arrested two computer programmers allegedly employed by Wall Street conman Bernard Madoff to cook the books in his decades-long, multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme.
It is also easier in such places for governing parties to cook the books -- although it would be patronizing to imagine that corruption is a problem only in the newer democracies.
 
 
 
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