I do not believe there have been any prosecutions here yet but I do not follow this extremely closely.

Or at least not prosecuted. 

I do it again and probably bye bye ability to do any of this less i risk criminal prosecution  :)   but as more people get fined like i did and more people spread the word like you are.. 

She wanted cash and the sheriff acted as a witness saying if my check bounced he'd personally make sure I was prosecuted.  

Remember in the last 8 years or so in the melt down not many developers were prosecuting land divisions.. so the cities using the free time used it to go through and up date their codes and such..

Excellent article on BP regarding this issue-http://www.biggerpockets.com/articles/968-the-5-steps-to-prosecute-a-successful-lawsuit-for-specific-performance

Yet another reason our car dealer examples aren't relevant.Financial Institutions are special"The violation of making a false statement to a financial institution is also a commonly used criminal law used to prosecute people for making misrepresentations to fact to a bank.

Some violations even don’t have such statutes and may be prosecuted indefinitely.

-it can help police identify a pattern -it can be the crime that finally allows an offender to be prosecuted-it can make the offense less rewarding for the perpertrator even if they arent prosecuted-it puts the criminal on other peoples radar - it supports your insurance claimNo, its not necessarily of value to your business in the short run but I believe it is of value to society so I would report it-

Bank will want a verifiable proof of funds, using the fake POFs or do-it-yourself cut and paste things from Google is fraud and you can be prosecuted.