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: --
He was a convicted drug dealer and purveyor of bad checks with a long rap sheet.
He was found to have written 86 bad checks, totaling $270,000.
They contend that he failed to pay for auction vehicles and wrote bad checks for the purchase of vehicles.
In theory, a judge could disband a legitimate organization if its leaders were convicted of even minor crimes such as passing a bad check.