US Mint officer admits taking $2.4M worth of coins

[jeff of pa]

CAMDEN, N.J.—A former police officer for the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia has admitted to stealing $2.4 million worth of "error" coins and selling them to a coin distributor in California.

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_18856090?nclick_check=1

 

[Marchas45]

Jeff your link don't work. I think this one will.

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_18856090

 

[jeff of pa]

Jeff your link don't work

Refresh & Retry worked for me

just 10 second delay at most

 

[Marchas45]

I'm wondering if he worked in the ordering packaging section. That's the only way I can see how he did it. When the dealer orders rolls he switches the good ones with the missing edge ones and sent them to the dealer. If that's the case he was probably doing it for peanuts.

 

[jeff of pa]

Yea I wonder if he was stealing them From a
Reject Bin,

Or if it was a Pyramid Scheme.

the more he got Paid
the more coins he bought
at face Value.

& shipped for profit

 

[ES66]

I'm amazed people think they can get away with things like this... Eventually, they're going to get caught....