Posted on 07/23/2006 8:19:04 AM PDT by aculeus
On Oct. 2, 2004, the container ship Ever Unique, sailing under a Panamanian flag from Yantai, China, berthed in the Port of Newark. [snip] ... F.B.I. and Secret Service agents, acting as part of a sting operation, gathered around the container and cracked it open ... they found counterfeit $100 bills worth more than $300,000, secreted in false-bottomed compartments.
The counterfeits were nearly flawless. They featured the same high-tech color-shifting ink as genuine American bills and were printed on paper with the same precise composition of fibers. The engraved images were, if anything, finer than those produced by the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
Counterfeits of this superior sort — known as supernotes — had been detected by law-enforcement officials before, elsewhere in the world, but the Newark shipment marked their first known appearance in the United States, at least in such large quantities.
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The arrests also prompted a more momentous accusation. After the indictments were released, U.S. government and law-enforcement officials began to say in public something that they had long said in private: the counterfeits were being manufactured not by small-time crooks or even sophisticated criminal cartels but by the government of North Korea. “The North Koreans have denied that they are engaged in the distribution and manufacture of counterfeits, but the evidence is overwhelming that they are,”
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The counterfeiting of American currency by North Korea might seem, to some [like the New York Times? -ed], to be a minor provocation by that country’s standards.
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But several current and former Bush administration officials whom I spoke with several months ago maintain that the counterfeiting is in important ways a comparable outrage. ... counterfeits, by creating mistrust in the American currency, posed a “threat to the American people.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Do they all have the same serial number?
Is it just me or has Ill aged 30 years in the past 10?
That can happen when one is so ronery.
I think he's ready to crack. This last missile salvo was bravado to scare the S from interferance and he will soon announce that "peace" should rein in Korea. Reunification, peacefully with a way for him to save face.
Well, we got a real one from the bank doing the training on the differences which had a "supernote" on loan from the treasury department for the training.
Our bank is very proactive in training small business owners, which is why we bank there. We take in a lot of hundreds (auto repair) as payment, so we try to stay current.
No. scary huh?
I pack ( twenty foot Equivalent Units) TEUs in Malaysia, I make 10 dollars a day and a nice korean man offers me 1000 dollars to add ten boxes to the TEU. They look just like all the other boxes and I just half to look the other way.
So even if the TEU comes from a port we know with good bills of lading guess what, contraband is in the 95 % we don't look at.
Have a nice day
Does the image on the front of that bill show the Great Monster, or is that his son, the Dear Monster?
Which left wing group was the intended recipient?
You imply that I denied that, I did not.
You have a nice day too.
I suspect printing the notes is the easy part. Getting them in circulation is the difficult part. There are few places you can put down millions of dollars in cash, and not get a few questions. Even if not at the time, the investigation would eventually get back to the source.
So you would need to spread out the risk, and wash those notes all over the place. I had heard one of the hardest task the mob has, is converting "dirty" money to "clean" money. Which is why they establish front businesses that appear on the surface clean, but are really just a way to clean up their money.
Trying to pass millions of dollars in the United States would be difficult. Which is why most of that sort of money is passed in Europe or third world countries.
Besides, this may have just been a test run.
Whoa...Hold your horses, Your thinking too fast.
First of all even Small Time and Cartel Affiliated Counterfeiters wouldnt touch their money.
Second, Their currency is the lowest of the low, So your pratically wasting your time and giving more pain to the people who are already in hell with Lil' Il.
Third, Their currency is only good to wipe your ass with because if you where going to bank to have NK Won traded for USD, They'd probably wouldnt even accept it, Hell they probably wouldnt even trade their money in the first place.
The best solution would actually be getting these people out of their...Too bad there are obstacles.
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