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  • Yes, Allen admitted calling the bail-bond company.

    Every Breath You Take Ann Rule 2000

  • Those who can't afford to post bail themselves enlist the help of a bail-bond agent, who typically guarantees the bail and charges a fee, usually around 10% of the total bail.

    Underwater and in the Tank Dawn Wotapka 2011

  • A solo practitioner, Mikey had gone to Suffolk Law at night, while he worked at a bail-bond office.

    Excerpt: Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett 2010

  • As a result, a dozen bail-bond agents refused to take Mr. Romero's case.

    Underwater and in the Tank Dawn Wotapka 2011

  • Worried that American homes are too heavily leveraged, bail-bond agents are turning away from residential real estate in weak markets.

    Underwater and in the Tank Dawn Wotapka 2011

  • George Zouvelos, a bail agent in New York City who is president of the state's bail-bond trade group, said he is assigning more liens on bank accounts, stock and bond holdings and fine paintings.

    Underwater and in the Tank Dawn Wotapka 2011

  • He was suspected of being way too cozy with Louis and Lori Marcotte, a pair of siblings who had monopolized the lucrative bail-bond business on the West Bank, and he was one of the local judges investigated in Operation Wrinkled Robe, a wide-ranging FBI investigation into corruption at the Jefferson Parish courthouse.

    Impeachment trial starts for New Orleans federal judge accused of corruption 2010

  • Set in the backwoods of Missouri, a teenage girl Jennifer Lawrence must find her drug dealing father, who has put up, as a bail-bond, the modest family home where she is raising her young siblings.

    Sebastian Doggart: Sundancing Into the Apocalypse Sebastian Doggart 2010

  • Set in the backwoods of Missouri, a teenage girl Jennifer Lawrence must find her drug dealing father, who has put up, as a bail-bond, the modest family home where she is raising her young siblings.

    Sebastian Doggart: Sundancing Into the Apocalypse Sebastian Doggart 2010

  • He was suspected of being way too cozy with Louis and Lori Marcotte, a pair of siblings who had monopolized the lucrative bail-bond business on the West Bank, and he was one of the local judges investigated in Operation Wrinkled Robe, a wide-ranging FBI investigation into corruption at the Jefferson Parish courthouse.

    Impeachment trial starts for New Orleans federal judge accused of corruption 2010

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