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The businessman arrived at the Treasury Department carrying a suitcase stuffed with about $5.2 million in petrified, nearly unrecognizable bills. He asked to swap it for a cashier's check.
For years, authorities say, he and his family have popped in and out of U.S. banks, looking to change about $20 million in decaying $100 bills for clean cash, offering ever-changing stories:
? It was an inheritance.
? Somebody dug up a tree and there it was.
? It was found in a suitcase buried in an alfalfa field
? A relative found a treasure map.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/28/buried.millions.ap/index.htmlProsecutors don't accuse Felhaber of involvement with drugs. Court documents leave open the possibility that somebody stumbled across a cache of abandoned drug money in the Mexican desert.
So I guess you can get away with this crime a ton of times, if you claim you can't speak English.