US Mint workers on the coin forums.

Is it really possible to spy on a public forum? That's like saying, "I woke up this morning and spied the newspaper." or "I spied the baseball game".

 

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That's too bad. Really a pity. All you need is one rotten piece of garbage to spoil the whole batch. Sad that he was ratted out. Some people are just jerks.

 

I think I remember something like that when I was scanning the relevant thread(s) a few years ago.

Someone there posted that prior to the aborted (?) 1st trial that Mint attorneys contacted friends of someone at CU asking for what the testimony would be and/or looking for dirt.

Shows you that just like the Import/Export Letter on the Farouk Coin and the March 7th, 1933 Mint directive on Coin Exchanges (that their so-called expert called an "orphan document" because he got burned on its existence and didn't know didley)....they feared more surprises.

Without that moronic, dimwitted judge, they never would have won if there was a fair trial.

 

I hope he fought it or sued. Unless it was specifically prohibited in his contract -- and back then Twitter/Facebook/etc. were not as prominent -- that seems extreme unless he is divulging critical information.

If he's just explaining stuff or giving additional color or information on policies, decisions, availabilities, etc....what's the harm ?

If he spoke the same stuff he posted but at a cocktail party or dinner....would he get fired for that ? Of course not.

He's not working on the Manhattan Project.

 

Problem is that employee, being an assistant director, was probably in the executive service and not civil service. Assistant directors and higher serve at the pleasure of the Secretary of the Treasury. So all the director had to do was get permission from the Secretary, and the assistant director would be gone.

I remember years ago when I worked for the federal government civil service, some of the highest ranking civil service employees in my department were given the chance to enter the executive service with a substantial raise. Some took the offer. Many were fired within a couple of years.

Cal

 

I'm sure that just like at CU we had sleazebags from the Mint and U.S. Attorneys office scanning these forums during the 1933 Saints trial.