Posted on 03/15/2006 1:37:49 AM PST by MadIvan
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - 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, phoney bills and a fake $100,000 (57,000 pound) 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.
thats funny,
"yeah, I'll have a big mac, fries and diet coke!.., what no change for a billion?"
I think the current high school history courses in New Zealand don't cover US history anymore. Absolutely nothing.
Anyone dumb enough to take a billion dollar note doesn't have any assets to begin with so I don't see how one could swindle with this.
I don't see it either. That's why I said this guy is stupid to plead guilty. Even a novice lawyer could get him off on these charges.
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