Posted: 3/14/2006 8:19:52 PM EDT
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LINK The counterfeit money looked good, but there was one flaw. There's no such thing as a one billion dollar bill. U.S. Customs agents in California said on Tuesday they had found 250 bogus billion dollar bills while investigating a man charged with currency smuggling. Tekle Zigetta, 45, pleaded guilty to three federal counts of trying to bring cash, phony bills and a fake $100,000 gold certificate into the United States in January. Further investigation led agents to a West Hollywood apartment where they found the stash of yellowing and wrinkled one billion dollar bills with an issue date of 1934 and bearing a picture of President Grover Cleveland. "You would think the $1 billion denomination would be a giveaway that these notes are fake, but some people are still taken in," said James Todak, a secret services agent involved in the probe. |
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With all this new currency the Treasury is pumping out nowadays...large face, offset face, colorized, etc....its no wonder that counterfeiters are having a field day with the "unwashed masses". Hell, I had a cashier give me a dirty look when I handed her one of those new "full face" nickels. |
$2..for those counterfitters that don't want their work compared to the real thing.  |
I better be getting a lot more than a lap dance from a lot more than one stripper for a billion dollar tip. |