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cordelli Oct 8, 2010 12:35 pm
And if they were to sell your passport many years later at auction would you expect the FBI to come down on the seller, warrants all over the place, cars in the street, etc?

Pretty sure a simple call and somebody walking over with a warrant would have resolved this pretty easy without the news getting involved.

No wait, there's an auction and they need buyers.

Never mind.

I wouldn't doubt the auction house let the FBI in on it.

cparekh Oct 8, 2010 2:20 pm
Originally Posted by cordelli (Post 14910614)
I wouldn't doubt the auction house let the FBI in on it.
Now that is a conspiracy theory I can get behind! :)

MikeMpls Oct 9, 2010 4:01 am
Originally Posted by NY Times
At 11 a.m. on Wednesday, an F.B.I. agent appeared outside Gotta Have It!, parked in a blue Ford. Mr. Siegel said the agent lacked a proper subpoena. After a flurry of phone calls between the store owners and their lawyer, and many visits to the agent in the Ford, the store owners received a subpoena by fax that satisfied their lawyer, and turned over the document.
Kind of sad that the FBI apparently can't show up with the proper paperwork in the first place.

bluenotesro Oct 9, 2010 7:06 am
Originally Posted by MikeMpls (Post 14913832)
Kind of sad that the FBI apparently can't show up with the proper paperwork in the first place.
The agent in question probably tried to buy it for his own personal use and got p'od that he/she couldn't pay a low price for it.

Thus calling it in :D

You want to go where? Oct 10, 2010 3:50 am
Originally Posted by cordelli (Post 14910614)
Pretty sure a simple call and somebody walking over with a warrant would have resolved this pretty easy without the news getting involved.
Where John Lennon is involved, there is nothing that could happen without the news getting involved. Someone could be selling a kleenex used by the best friend of the flight attendant who served Lennon coffee and it would be on the news.

n4zhg Oct 10, 2010 8:11 pm
Originally Posted by MikeMpls (Post 14913832)
Kind of sad that the FBI apparently can't show up with the proper paperwork in the first place.
That's because they usually lead with their bullets.

jiejie Oct 10, 2010 8:41 pm
How did the FBI even get wind of this card even being at this auction house in the first place?

I'd be more inclined to check closely on the lawyer from whose office things were "stolen."

marklyon Oct 10, 2010 10:58 pm
The card was part of his application for permanent residency. As part of that process, fingerprints are taken and sent to the FBI. The INS is now USCIS and is part of DHS.

http://www.reuters.com/resources/r/?...N-FINGERPRINTS


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