Californian busted for counterfeit billion dollar bills
 

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The counterfeit money looked good, but there was one flaw. There's no such thing as a one billion dollar bill.

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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 gold certificate into the United States in January.

Further investigation led agents to a West Hollywood apartment where they found the stash of yellowing and wrinkled one billion dollar bills with an issue date of 1934 and bearing a picture of President Grover Cleveland.

"You would think the $1 billion denomination would be a giveaway that these notes are fake, but some people are still taken in," said James Todak, a secret services agent involved in the probe.

You'd have to be pretty fucking dumb to accept that ;) lol

any anybody with the change for a billion dollar bill isn't THAT stupid ;)

Question is... who has change for a billion dollar bill?? Where the hell could you cash such a thing???

maybe he asked for a 6 pack of beer and 999 million lottery tickets , and keep the change heh

well you could prob have some fun with a blonde stripper :)

what a dumb ass - smart enought to make a billion note but not bright enough to research history. the largest U.S.A note i think was 100k which was made i belive back in 1950 something.

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