Don’t They Know That After 7pm, 7-11 Can’t Change Anything Larger Than A Million?
From today’s LAT:
Fake $1-Billion Bills Are Seized
Federal authorities have seized 250 counterfeit $1-billion banknotes from a West Hollywood apartment as part of a currency smuggling investigation, officials said Tuesday.
The bogus Federal Reserve notes carry 1934 issue dates and are stained to look old.
“They are a replication of 1934 Grover Cleveland $1,000 bills — manipulated to look like $1 billion,” said James Todak, deputy special agent in charge for the Secret Service in Los Angeles. …
One … billion … dollars. A million wasn’t enough?
I’ve got the email address of a guy in Nigeria I’d like to send them to …
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The original $1,000 bill, courtesy Wikipedia:
According to the Department of the Treasury, “The largest federal reserve note (currency) ever printed was $100,000 and was only used inside the banking system.”
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