Court orders return of siezed $20s.

We can extradite him. If he did it with malice aforethought, that's a Class X Felony in Illinois.

Frank, did you ever sell a coin in Illinois? Or did anybody in Illinois ever buy one of your books? Those are what are called "minimum contacts" for the purposes of in personam long-arm jurisdiction under International Shoe v. Washington, 326 U.S. 310 (1945). You can't run and hide from the long arm of the law. Rusty can sue you and get all your coins.

 

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All parties agree the mint records were complete and accurate. The bullion account and the cash, or money, account were in balance. By whatever means the coins left the mint, they left the mint legally. They were NOT stolen!

 

coins?

what coins?

Books?

What books?

Frank who?

 

King Farouk had one that wasn't questioned. How'd that happen?

 

It was a gift to him from the US government. So it was legally obtained .

 

Eddie

He has an alias ......He aka Moses! & "The Other Frank"

 

This is nothing but one big farce and the only ones stealing here are the feds/lawyers robbing us via their paychecks during this obscene waste of time/effort....

 

No it was purchased from a dealer in Texas (Possibly B Max Mehl) and following the laws on the books at the time they applied for an export license. (At the time collectors could hold all gold coins dated 1933 or earlier but an export license was required for each coin to to take them out of the country.) They turned over the coin for examination and about a week later it was returned with the license.

 

Who got it from Switt. Let's just be clear about that. That was brought out in the testimony. There were no others known extant but his.

 

Correct, every currently known 1933 double eagle eventually traces back to Switt. But he had disbursed at least ten of them by 1940 and they were publicly and privately traded and even advertised for sale before the government suddenly "went nuts" in 1944 and decided they must be stolen. (Even though nothing was missing.)

 

I've got Grand Jury duty next week (hopefully the last week [already served three]). Let's hope the ADA's don't go after you Frank..........

 

Just to clarify, it would be the ASAs going after him. It's just a state crime.

 

"[W]ent nuts?" You mean, saw the money, and "went greedy."

 

i am sure a few more will be found. then the prices will drop. then you can me one as a gift with the export license of course. so in future if these are adopted back at least mine will become rare

 

King Farouk got one and you're a bigger king than he was. Of course, consider it done. I figure out how to get my hands on these, I'll get you one. Do you want fries with it? Just stop by the drive-up window.

 

Just give me home delivery on this one

 

If it was a case of went greedy for the money, why did they melt down the coins they confiscated? You will note my comment was based on the nine coins they confiscated back in 1944, not the ten Langbord coins. (The Langbord coins could be greed, but more likely just a need to be "consistent". "we confiscated them as stolen in 1944, so we either have to keep calling them stolen and confiscate these too."

 

it will be fun if the 1944owners sue

 

who?