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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (95790)4/23/2003 2:59:17 PM
From: michael97123  Respond to of 281500
 
Nadine,
Cash may have been left at multiple locations so they would have multiple points of access. The speed of the US victory may not have given them all enough time to get their hands on all of it. They are probably afraid of being tracked if they try to get to their secret accounts so with up to 24 billion in assets they may have converted up to 10% in cash for this ultimate emergency. Mafia chieftans would have done the same thing. By the way i thought the bills were said to be old and not sequenced which indicates no counterfeiting, unless their skill was to age money to evade the authorities who look for new bills in sequence. Mike



To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (95790)4/23/2003 8:43:38 PM
From: epsteinbd  Respond to of 281500
 
My guess is that the money is not fake. It's simply emergency cash. There may be other stashes in other cities, countries.

By the same token, I wouldn't prosecute the soldiers for the attempted theft, unless they had a special course entitled: "how to resist a 1% commission on an abandoned treasure you stumble upon with no one knowing, and once you won the war".


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