Does anyone remember a story about a boat loaded with billions in counterfeit US bonds or currency..

Possibly bound for China or Europe? It happened around 2007 I believe.

It just popped into my head tonight and can't find the original story on Google.

I believe it was in Italy. The case was seized on by a lot of conspiraloons.

U.S. Treasury says bonds seized in Italy are fakes

(Reuters) - A purported $134 billion in U.S. government bearer bond certificates seized by police near the Italian-Swiss border are fake, the U.S. Treasury said on Friday.

"Based on the photograph we've seen online, they are clearly fake. And not even good fakes," said Stephen Meyerhardt, a spokesman for the Treasury's Bureau of the Public Debt.

He added that there is only $105 million in Treasury bearer bond securities outstanding, so the $134 billion amount seized far exceeds the universe of outstanding securites.

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The bonds comprised 249 "Federal Reserve" bonds of $500 million nominal value each and 10 "Bond Kennedy" with a $1 billion nominal value, the tax police said June 4 in a statement.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/06/19/usa-italy-counterfeit-idUSN1946360420090619

of an episode of Sea Hunt.

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