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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fretboard, post: 1627896, member: 19765&quot;]The problem was Bernard von Nothaus tried to circulate his money and tried to have businesses using his coins instead of US dollars.&nbsp; When other money is circulated then the US dollars are not and the feds do not like that one bit.&nbsp; von Nothaus could be a rich man if he played his cards right, problem was for whatever reason he thought it was ok to circulate his coins instead of circulating US coins.&nbsp; If he would have simply made his silver rounds and sold them everything would be fine, but he didn&#039;t.&nbsp; That&#039;s where he screwed up.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/us/liberty-dollar-creator-awaits-his-fate-behind-bars.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/us/liberty-dollar-creator-awaits-his-fate-behind-bars.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/us/liberty-dollar-creator-awaits-his-fate-behind-bars.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&quot;In 2006, with millions of the coins in circulation in more than 80&nbsp; cities, the United States Mint sent Mr. von NotHaus a letter advising&nbsp; that the use of his currency “as circulating money” was a federal crime.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;He ignored this advice,and in 2007, federal agents raided the offices in&nbsp; Evansville, seizing, among other things, copper dollars embossed with&nbsp; the image of Mr. Paul.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;Two years later, Mr. von NotHaus was arrested on fraud and&nbsp; counterfeiting charges, accused of having used the Liberty Dollar’s&nbsp; parent corporation — Norfed, the National Organization for Repeal of the&nbsp; Federal Reserve — to mount a conspiracy against the United States.&nbsp; It became real easy for the government to convict the guy cause he blew it.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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