1 Billion Dollars.....CASH

[skippy]

Man busted in Calif. with billion dollar bills

Tue Mar 14, 8:22 PM ET

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 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.

[Gobbler's Knob]

Where would you be able to spend a billion dollar bill?, unless you are George Bush giving haliburton another contract

[Noah]

What a moron, a billion dollar bill? he deserves to be caught for being so dumb

[skippy]

I guess he was going to go up to Seattle and offer Bill Gates $250B for Microsoft......CASH!!!

[skippy]

Man jailed for trying to pass $1M bill

Tue Oct 9, 8:02 AM ET

PITTSBURGH - Change for a million?

That's what a man was seeking Saturday when he handed a $1 million bill to a cashier at a Pittsburgh supermarket.

But when the Giant Eagle employee refused and a manager confiscated the bogus bill, the man flew into a rage, police said.

The man slammed an electronic funds-transfer machine into the counter and reached for a scanner gun, police said.

Police arrested the man, who was not carrying identification and has refused to give his name to authorities.

He is being held in the Allegheny County Jail.

Since 1969, the $100 bill is the largest note in circulation.

Police believe the $1 million note seized at the supermarket may have originated at a Dallas-based ministry.

Last year, the ministry distributed thousands of religious pamphlets with a picture of President Grover Cleveland on a $1 million bill.

[skippy]

Ga. man tries to deposit fake $1M bill

1 hour, 36 minutes ago

AIKEN, S.C. - A bank teller in Clearwater had a million reasons not to open an account for an Augusta, Ga., man Monday, authorities said. Alexander D. Smith, 31, was charged with disorderly conduct and two counts of forgery after he walked into the bank and tried to open an account by depositing a fake $1 million bill, said Aiken County Sheriff's spokesman Lt. Michael Frank.

The employee refused to open the account and called police while the man started to curse at bank workers, Frank said.

The second forgery charge came after investigators learned Smith bought several cartons of cigarettes from a nearby grocery store with a stolen check, Frank said.

The federal government has never printed a million-dollar bill, Frank said.
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Information from: Aiken Standard, http://www.aikenstandard.com

[skippy]

Originally Posted by skippy

Ga. man tries to deposit fake $1M bill

1 hour, 36 minutes ago

AIKEN, S.C. - A bank teller in Clearwater had a million reasons not to open an account for an Augusta, Ga., man Monday, authorities said. Alexander D. Smith, 31, was charged with disorderly conduct and two counts of forgery after he walked into the bank and tried to open an account by depositing a fake $1 million bill, said Aiken County Sheriff's spokesman Lt. Michael Frank.

The employee refused to open the account and called police while the man started to curse at bank workers, Frank said.

The second forgery charge came after investigators learned Smith bought several cartons of cigarettes from a nearby grocery store with a stolen check, Frank said.

The federal government has never printed a million-dollar bill, Frank said.
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Information from: Aiken Standard, http://www.aikenstandard.com

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[Hoosiercatdaddy]

Originally Posted by Gobbler's Knob

Where would you be able to spend a billion dollar bill?, unless you are George Bush giving haliburton another contract

[skippy]

Originally Posted by skippy

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/071127/4...p4BvmJ08ouQE4F

Can anyone identify the President on that $1M banknote???

[Rookie Pix]

looks like roosevelt or cleveland probably the guys picture who made the bill

[TN TITAN Fan In STL]

I Saw This On A Simpsons Episode Once.