FBI investigates forgery claims against La. couple

The old man's sales pitch sounded plausible enough to art collector Don Fuson. The warning signs didn't appear until after Fuson paid him $30,000 for what he thought were paintings by renowned folk artist Clementine Hunter.

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Money too funny: Argentine court forgives forgery

An Argentine man who tried to use two counterfeit bills has been found innocent, by reason of incompetence. A federal court in Buenos Aires says the forged bills presented by Marcos Ribles were "so clumsy and crude" that "they could not be accepted by most people."

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No rest for the divorced in Guyana after forgery

Dozens of couples in the South American country of Guyana who thought they were divorced have to repeat the process because judges' signatures were forged, authorities said Friday.

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Woman accused of forging her parents' checks again

A Burlington woman awaiting a court of appeals ruling on an earlier conviction for forging her mother's checks has been arrested for allegedly doing it again. The woman, 43, was sentenced last summer to 15 years in prison but is free on bond while the case is being reviewed by the Iowa Court of Appeals.

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Art Scammer Gets Suspended Sentence

A man whose family forged statues and paintings and then passed them off as priceless pieces of art to museums including the Art Institute of Chicago received a two-year suspended sentence Monday.

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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. -- A former Florida Atlantic University student accused of stealing someone's identity to save money on college costs has been arrested.

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Pokie machines for those who don't frequent casinos are on line slots. Heather Scott, 54, former Alexandra bank manager blew about $400,000 playing these things. She got 3 years in jail, but think of all the fun she had.

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Congressional investigators today said they have turned up a 14th forged letter that was sent to a Congressional office criticizing the House's climate change bill, this one appearing to come from an American Legion post in Rocky Mount, Va.

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The first problem with this shroud of Turin being the true and original burial shroud of Jesus Christ, the son of God, is simple: the problem is the other 40 or so burial shrouds of Jesus Christ, each claiming to be the true and original one. By Dr Karl Kruszelnicki

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A commuter used a forged ticket to travel by train from Sussex to work in London for more than two years.

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,This morning the below story broke: LOBBYISTS FORGED LETTERS TO CONGRESS ON CLIMATE BILL

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Fine cotton business paper: $11 Inkjet printer: $35 1940 Royal Model KMM manual typewriter: $10 2 Shilling coin: $1 Pilot Varsity fountain pen: $3 Punkin' the Birthers: Priceless

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The latest development in the Obama "birther" conspiracy is the emergence of a "Kenyan birth certificate" for the president, put online by movement maven Orly Taitz.

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What does your birth certificate look like?

All this certificate talk on Obama got me to thinking about mine... so I went and looked for it to see if I could be president someday. What I found out was: I probably can't.

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"As US House Representative Tom Perriello was considering how to vote on an important piece of climate change legislation in June, the freshman congressman's office received at least six letters [purporting to be] from two Charlottesville-based minority organizations voicing op …

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The letter -- subsequently obtained by TPMmuckraker -- had actually been sent by someone at the D.C.

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The exhibition called "Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries", to be staged next June, will feature the infamous Holbein forgery, called A Man with a Skull, as well as a painting that was originally acquired by the gallery as a work by Rembrandt, called An Old Man in …

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This is like saying "My dog ate my homework".

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A New York man has been arrested for impersonating his dead mother in order to claim $115,000 (£70,500) in social security benefits and rent subsidies.

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An Horry County woman has been charged with forgery after police said she wrote fake doctor's notices to excuse four students, including her own child, from classes at Socastee High School.

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A leading art expert estimates that at least half of the paintings in Hanoi's Museum of Fine Arts could be copies of originals removed for safekeeping during the Vietnam War.

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A former exotic dancer with a body for sin and maybe a brain for it, too, stole three Upper East Side apartment buildings from her late ex-boyfriend and brazenly started collecting rent, authorities said.

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It has been learnt from very reliable sources that the top brass of Habib Bank limited, Pakistan, are trying to influence the decision of the Banking Court and other concerned offices, in the fraud and forgery case, presently being heard "In the Court of Banking Judge No II, H …

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The president of a Philadelphia day care center has been arrested and charged with cheating the state out of more than $400,000 earmarked to feed needy children and using the money to fund an extravagant lifestyle, authorities said today.

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Fraudsters have used a picture of jailed pop singer Boy George to replace the Queen on forged bank notes.

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Dear Mr. Scammer I owe you a few apologies: And how! BTW didja know the word "gullible" is NOT in the dictionary?

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Twitter comment available for court style evidence on forgery of SSS registration including altering a USPS date stamp (a Federal crime), RIMS History readout, and Certificate of Live Birth to deceive voters and gain control of the US Government. Twitter: Sending evidence on  …

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How would you like to show up to join the military and be arrested? ....Only in Wisconsin, I guess

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A judge is set to throw out charges against experts accused of faking a stone box that claimed to offer the first physical proof of the existence of Christ - raising the possibility once again that it could be genuine.

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In "October Surprise", Molotov Mitchell interviews the plaintiff in a stunning federal case against Barack Obama. The case is nothing short of electrifying, but the mainstream media is doing its best to keep Americans in the dark.

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