0 a check that has been written for an amount of money that the person writing it knows they do not have, so it cannot be paid:
In theory, a judge could disband a legitimate organization if its leaders were convicted of even minor crimes such as passing a bad check.
They contend that he failed to pay for auction vehicles and wrote bad checks for the purchase of vehicles.
He was found to have written 86 bad checks, totaling $270,000.
He was a convicted drug dealer and purveyor of bad checks with a long rap sheet.
