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The Japanese Bond Smugglers Are Missing
The Business Insider ^
| 6/17/09
Posted on 06/17/2009 9:31:51 PM PDT by FromLori
A reporter is sent to Italy to learn more about the bond smuggling story. But nobody knows where the two men are.
At least the Japanese press is sitll interested in story of the two Japanese men caugh withs ome $134.5 billion in (presumably fake) US bearer bonds.
We can't read Japanese, and Google Translate isn't particularly helpful, but a reader informs us that the gist of this story is that a newspaper sent a reporter to Como, Italy and found that the men had been released, with their whereabouts unknown.
Now, the easiest, most-benign explanation for this whole thing is that it's just a counterfeiting scheme. Fine, but then why do you let them go without tracking their whereabouts.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Japan
KEYWORDS: bearerbonds; bonds; counterfeiting; missing
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:31:51 PM PDT
by
FromLori
To: FromLori
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:33:30 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com <----go there now,----> tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
To: GeronL; AmericanInTokyo
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:33:54 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com <----go there now,----> tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
To: FromLori
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:34:38 PM PDT
by
tired1
(When the Devil eats you there's only one way out.)
To: FromLori
obviously, there’s nothing to see here........... right...
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:37:10 PM PDT
by
Lloyd227
(Class of 1998 (let's all help the Team McCain spider monkeys decide how to moderate))
To: tired1
"Case closed." Yup. We don't need to know...Obama will take care of it.
We just need to go back to work now and mind our own business.
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:38:23 PM PDT
by
blam
To: FromLori
This story just keeps getting better every day.
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:38:53 PM PDT
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: FromLori
If they were counterfeit, that would be a crime, and they would not have been released.
Logical conclusion: They were the real deal, and the men were released no doubt with a little urging from the Japanese embassy there.
8
posted on
06/17/2009 9:40:25 PM PDT
by
djf
(Man up!! Don't be a FReeloader!! Make a donation today!)
To: djf
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:41:12 PM PDT
by
FromLori
(FromLori)
To: blam
I think that 0’s bosses took care of it.
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:45:10 PM PDT
by
tired1
(When the Devil eats you there's only one way out.)
To: KoRn
This story just keeps getting better every day. It's gone from strange to downright sublime.
These guys get caught crossing the border with 134 BILLION in U.S. bonds and they're just "released?"
What planet is this? I need to stop reading here.
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:45:45 PM PDT
by
AAABEST
(And the light shineth in darkness: and the darkness did not comprehend it)
To: FromLori
They went missing, eh? Just like our money, our future, our country. /pessimism
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:48:11 PM PDT
by
PGalt
To: tired1
"I think that 0’s bosses took care of it." The Bilderbergers?
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:48:38 PM PDT
by
blam
To: AAABEST
Probably returning TARP money loaned to US banks to Swiss banks for deposit in US politicians’ accounts.
(bump for later reference)
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:49:16 PM PDT
by
Robert357
(D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
To: djf
If they were counterfeit, that would be a crime, and they would not have been released. Unless certain Sicilian families were involved. Then one phone call to the right person in the police would open the jail doors.
I'm still betting on real bonds which some country is trying to dump but doesn't want to start a panic before they get out of US bonds.
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:49:29 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Chrysler and GM are what Marx meant by the means of production.)
To: PGalt
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:49:52 PM PDT
by
FromLori
(FromLori)
To: AAABEST
I wonder if the Italians got to keep (by their law) 30% of the seized value? (I think it’s 30%)
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:50:12 PM PDT
by
blam
To: AAABEST
Well, there’s obviously more to the story than what is being told.
I don’t know what to make of it. From a persepctive of an American who holds at least some US currency, I’d probably hope they’re forgeries.
If they’re real, watch out...
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:52:27 PM PDT
by
Boiling Pots
(B. Hussein Obama: The final turd George W. Bush laid on America)
To: KarlInOhio
I'm still betting on real bonds... If the story at the top of the thread is true, you win your bet."
That can be the only plausible explanation - they were real bonds that some HUGE bond-holding nation was unloading legally (but off the open market), therefore no actual crime was committed.
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:56:34 PM PDT
by
AAABEST
(And the light shineth in darkness: and the darkness did not comprehend it)
To: Boiling Pots
If they’re real, watch out... I'm thinking that if the story is true, they have to be real bonds. See my previous post.
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posted on
06/17/2009 9:58:00 PM PDT
by
AAABEST
(And the light shineth in darkness: and the darkness did not comprehend it)
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