Funny, somebody else just sent me a link to the story in the NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/ar...MiR0cFrmzE2R9w

From that story:

Yet despite the display of federal investigative force, the interest in Lennon’s fingerprint card may turn out to be prosaic, perhaps having to do with ownership of government property. On Wednesday an F.B.I. spokesman, James Margolin, said there was an “investigation into how that item came to be up for auction.”

Yeah, lets tie up a ton of man hours for an old fingerprint card.