Posted on 02/20/2023 3:41:12 PM PST by TigerClaws
When I find a horde of gold, I’ll keep my mouth shut. How in the world do you liquidate millions of dollars of gold without drawing all kinds of attention to yourself? How would you liquidate even hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gold and stay on the down low?
Same question for old currency. How do you fence it?
Legend has it that the gold was on its way to the Philly mint to be coined so Union soldiers could get paid around the time of Gettysburg in 1863. Good yarn, but soldiers on both sides were paid in script. Shame Alistair MacLean is not around to write a story about it, as it would lend itself to multi layer of betrayal.
Because if he was the one that found it, they owe him 10%, which would be roughly $45 million.
And just like Jimmy Conway from “Goodfellas”, it makes the government sick to have to share the money with the guy that found it.
44 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
(Before the FBI can confiscate that wealth!)
Find it....Never declare it.
In Panama, if people found treasure, they knew better than to inform the government. They knew the government would steal it, and they would get nothing.
But, in the USA, we know our government officials are totally honest, and would never steal treasure which was unaccounted for and maybe, even belonged to the government in the first place. /S
I know of someone with that same problem
A relative ran a vending business and pocketed a large sum of undeclared money from the 70s to 2019.
That’s a lot of small denominations dollar bills to explain. His children have quite the problem.
A hoax? No. I could be wrong. But I seem to remember reading that the Union paymaster was shifty guy named Archibald Biden. So, yeah. I think something really did happen to all the gold.
🤔
Even bigger than Lubyanka, but better appointed.
They can lie to us all they want.
Why the hell would I declare it?
If I found it I would just keep it, gold is fungible.
If it was in minted coin it is very valuable being auctioned off a few at a time, if it was in bullion form a simple blow torch will change it’s shape enough to be sold on the jewelry market!
He should have asked an Indian, first.
😂😂😂
"Don't buy anything!"
Shovel, shut up and sell off slowly.
BS on this. Why wasn’t there a search way back in 1863? Who were those “Confederate sympathizers”? They just magically appeared, stole the gold, and then just left it right near the crime scene? 7 tons of Gov’t gold just disappears and there is no outcry? No investigation? No Congressional hearings?
First, pay cash for everything you can, from restaurant bills to any purchase under $5,000. It should be easy to use $20,000 to $40,000 a year that way.
Second, make a habit of depositing cash into savings account, in the order of a thousand a week or so. Use the account to pay off credit cards.
Third, take trips, take along under $10k in cash, and spend it.
There are a number of cash based businesses. Start one up.
I hate when that happens.
Heh. Did he want 10 percent as well?
Seems like the FBI decided to acquire the gold “off book” so maybe they can tap into those resources to pay for having things done clandestinely.
In other words, it’s their slush und to use to do things they want to have done but will not leave a formal record so they can maintain Plausible Deniability.
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