cook the books

Usage of “cook the books”

1. In 2001 it was clear that Enron had been cooking the books.

Examples of idiom “cook the books” from Twitter

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  deborahgail:

  I do not like it Uncle Sam, I do not like it Sam I am. I do not like these dirty crooks, I do not like how they cook the books...Tom Gniewek

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  JENin140:

  if a private company tried to cook the books w/fuzzy math like they gave CBO for h/c bill, CEO would be facing jail time

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  Grahamjs70:

  Working on an financial analysis that will get a lot of people in trouble. Never try to cook the books you will get caught!

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  Tansiden:

  @FoxNews I've been leery since Tip O'Neal stole Social Security fund so they could "cook the books" during Carter admin. Now I know why.

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  owendbanks:

  Barney Frank, "No, I did not protect Fannie Mae going bankrupt because my lover Moses was a exec there cooking the books."

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  rhsprod:

  .@plove360 Healthier people, green tech and more kids in college will do more for our economy than cooking the books to pay for war.

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  tex75662:

  What gave us this financial crisis was two Democrats cooking the books at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac all the while stealing from the public

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  gilrolling:

  CBO scoring a copy of the global warming group by cooking the books with assumtive data.

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  binodshankar:

  The Lehman scandal-not financial engineering. Just cooking the books in alliance with dodgy auditors and lawyers! Echoes of Enron!#in.