Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Dumb Criminals- Billion Dollar Edition

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, phony bills and a fake $100,000 (57,000 pound) gold certificate into the United States in January.

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Reminds me of something I've heard many times in this business: Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.