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Secret Service notified as Trump aide brags about 'causing innocent people to be arrested'
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Truly no level these people won't stoop to.
this post was submitted on 13 May 2024
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Didn't George Floyd get murdered because he paid with a counterfeit? And assholes like this are proud of it.
No. George Floyd was murdered because an asshole cop thought he could choke him out with impunity
Very disgusting. Glad the Secret Service has been notified.
By notified it means that they were tagged on social media. Persecution would probably require a victim to be found or come forward, or maybe get a warrant to search his vehicle for counterfeits and cocaine, unless they get him for a lesser charge like conspiracy to commit a crime.
Can anyone eli5 why the Secret Service would have anything to do with this? Up until now, I thought their sole role was protecting POTUS. Do they prosecute money fraud, too?
The Secret Service was created to investigate counterfeiting. The president stuff came later.
https://www.secretservice.gov/investigations
Counterfeiting of United States currency, bonds, checks, and other financial obligations and securities. Distributing or passing of counterfeited, forged, or altered U.S. currency and other financial obligations and securities. Criminals sometimes use online forums to sell bulk counterfeited U.S. or foreign currency.
Well their original charter was to investigate counterfeiting. The presidential protection thing was kind of an add-on. But my impression was that the original function was moved to a different agency and the USSS, originally under the treasury department, moved to Homeland Security. So I don’t know why they would have anything to with this. Unless I remembered that wrong.
Right. I always thought the FBI was responsible for hunting down counterfeiting. The whole point of the FBI is to be federal level police, and our currency is a federal concern.
I understand why you would think that, but it's wrong. The secret service is absolutely still in charge of investigating counterfeit money.
I handled a lot of cash for an old job and I had to submit a form to the secret service whenever I reported counterfeits.
They basically handle counterfeit money cases, so people spending counterfeit money provided by this asshole would have been investigated by the secret service.
Their original job was to go after counterfeiting And it’s still their jam. (Along with other similar financial crimes.)
(Edit fuck autocorrect,)
Counter-fitting is the job of a carpenter.
Actually, a carpenter dealers with wooden structures like building frames and decks. A cabinet maker dealers with more intricate woodworking like furniture, countertops, and interior decorations. If you're going to snarky, you better be correct.
How is this different from the assholes that spread these as "tips"?
Those cannot be reasonably mistaken for real currency. Carefully so, even.
This person allegedly (from his own mouth) intentionally passed off paper convincing enough to be used in films, as real currency, to people with a high likelihood of mental illness, in the express desire to trick them into using it as real currency so that they get arrested.
Who knows if any of this is true, but from the asses' own mouth, that's a world of difference in intent.
The people who pass these out are huge assholes...but do honestly need it explained to you why tricking a homeless person into using fake money so they are arrested is not the same as some religious nutter attempting to trick you into reading their proselytization?
You just activated my fight or flight
Shows how stupid this guy is. Obviously it isn't illegal for someone to own "Hollywood money" or else he wouldn't admit to owning it himself. If a homeless person gives it to a store and they accept it, that's on them.
It clearly states on the bills "For Motion Picture use Only", doesn't feel right, and isn't the right size.
If a homeless man accepts a Hollywood bill, believes it genuine, and tries to spend it - they're not at fault for most of the currency related laws. Simply handing a homeless person a fake bill with the intent that they believe it is genuine is the super illegal thing. There's a large mens rhea component to most crimes but especially around fraud... the basis of most fraud cases is inequal information: you purposefully don't disclose a significant quality of the goods being transferred.
I hope this shitheel learns thoroughly that the secret service are really fucking serious about their non-bodyguard duty.
(Also, shout out to Warehouse 13 for being a fucking hilarious premise right in this area)
The person handing them out, passing the fake bills off as real money to the homeless(even as a donation) is the illegal thing. Spending a counterfeit bill without having known it was fake is not illegal in the US afaik, but you can still be arrested for it because the police don't have to believe that you didn't know.
I mean it isn't counterfeit. Counterfeit is making a bill yourself that looks exactly like an actual bill. These specifically state they aren't real.
I didn't know about giving it out as a donation though.
The quality of the item is only a consideration if its unreasonable for a regular person to mistake it for real (a good example is bills printed in red). If someone could mistake it for genuine and you're falsely presenting it as genuine - then you've got fraud.
George Floyd was executed by police for using a suspected counterfeit bill.
Arrest this dumb fucker and throw away the key
Wow who knew that these obvious piece of shit scumbags were obvious piece of shit scumbags. They're a detriment to our society and republicans elect them to positions of power where they can become even larger detriments to our society.
I’m sure he will offer to part in anyone who gets arrested during his campaign. Then conveniently forget about it should he get elected
He only knows the best people.
What does it matter if Trump wins or not.
Us politicians are already bought and sold by capitalist pigs out of control.
Its only a matter of time that inflation keeps getting worse and worse and China is going to keep undermining US economy.
The CEOs have already secured their lifeboats, and the future of capitalism out of control is that it will hollow out the economy.
The USA has entered a death spiral of poverty by capitalist design, the CEOS are too blinded by greed to see what they have done. And the politicians are in there pockets.
It will keep getting worse and worse.
Fascism is not the solution to neoliberalism.
where did I say facism was the solution
In supporting apathy you're supporting who would win if the good go apathetic ie. Fascists.
DEMOCRATS are the Swamp! Law And Order!
I think that this is an attempt at a joke rather than something he actually did. He probably enjoys reading about how angry his political opponents are about it.
Ah the old "That horrific story you heard about me was actually fabricated by me, so this is actually a win haha gotcha" defense.
Is this guy a Drake ghostwriter?