Old news, in a manner of speaking. The Langbord family turned those over to the Treasury Department in 2004. The family has now sued the government for the coins, and the government has submitted paperwork in response. That's what generated your newspaper article. There's a cover page article about it in 26 March's Coin World.
Check out the line : “Plaintiffs fail ... to plead any fact to support their implication that Switt legally obtained the 1933 Double Eagles,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Joel M. Sweet wrote in the brief filed Friday. “(That) supports a reasonable inference that Switt obtained the 1933 Double Eagles knowing that they were stolen property.” PLAINTIFFS fail ? Sad that "Burden of Proof" is on the original holder of the property; possession is 9/10ths of the law, and the Mint holds the coins ... Another case where reading a book could have saved a lot of trouble - "Illegal Tender". I bet the mint winds up auctioning them off.
