Spelling Error Fingers Two In Fraud
A sharp-eyed Canadian Mountie spotted a spelling error on U.S. Treasury bonds worth about $2.5 trillion -- bonds that turned out to be forgeries. Two men tried to cash $25 million worth of the bonds at a Canadian bank in February 2001 when the Mountie saw some of the bonds said "dollar" instead of "dollars," Britain's Sky News reports. Former forensic scientist Graham Halksworth, 69, and former Yugoslav spy Michael Slamaj, 52 were convicted of conspiracy to defraud. In their defense, the two said the United States had issued the bonds they said were real to Chiang Kai-Shek's nationalist government in the 1940s in an attempt to undermine the communist revolution in China, Sky News says.
A sharp-eyed Canadian Mountie spotted a spelling error on U.S. Treasury bonds worth about $2.5 trillion -- bonds that turned out to be forgeries. Two men tried to cash $25 million worth of the bonds at a Canadian bank in February 2001 when the Mountie saw some of the bonds said "dollar" instead of "dollars," Britain's Sky News reports. Former forensic scientist Graham Halksworth, 69, and former Yugoslav spy Michael Slamaj, 52 were convicted of conspiracy to defraud. In their defense, the two said the United States had issued the bonds they said were real to Chiang Kai-Shek's nationalist government in the 1940s in an attempt to undermine the communist revolution in China, Sky News says.
Charles Mims
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