Dealer selling counterfeits indicted
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It looks like there are a lot of thread on this person going back a lot of years: https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/comment/9544522#Comment_9544522
Indictment
Agent Joe Boche with the Minnesota Commerce Fraud Bureau has been investigating Burnsville Coin Company and its owner, Barry Skog, for selling counterfeit coins to victims across the country for months. Boche's efforts has resulted in the indictment of Skog for the sale of counterfeit coins and mail fraud.
Agent Boche is a member of ICTA's Anti Counterfeiting Task Force and works closely with NCIC.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/burnsville-coin-dealer-indicted-fraud-scheme
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Just hoping for a conviction.
Put him in a "real" prison. Not one of those white collar crime Motels.
Pete
Maybe they'll go after the makers, too!
Good news. Bad peddler. And I agree RWB. Fabricators dumping their wares on unsuspecting individuals should bear as much or more, of the punishment.
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This is just the tip of the iceberg. With the help of the ACTF government agencies including the FBI, DHS, ICE and others are learning about the counterfeit problem. They are recognizing that this is a multi billion dollar problem and that the profits are funding God knows what. They are working with ACTF to train agents to recognize fakes, understand the supply chain and take them down. The ACTF then helps provide expert testimony to ensure these criminals gp down hard. In the coming weeks and years you will be hearing about more and more cases being prosecuted and hopefully more higher level people in the supply chain getting busted.
All this said, if you want this to continue, support ACTF with donations. They are developing curricula and educational materials to help take down the counterfeiters but that costs money. There have already been a few cases closed and prosecuted in the last year with the help of ACTF with more to come.
Good!!!! Hopefully justice will be served
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Christ, when we got a 5 dollar bill washed out and made into a 20, we got pulled into an unassuming room with casino security, local law enforcement, tribal land enforcement, and later a plain clothes man who didn't identify himself. We produced our ATM receipt and were more than willing to assist. We went to the bank with the report and basically got told too bad. I was treated more like a criminal as some guy randomly getting a counterfeit than I was when.. well. Anyway.
As for this thread, it'd be a lot different if this was a 25 year old with his first B&M buying a counterfeit collection and selling it. I don't think the guy deserves to die in prison, but this kind of negative press on coins (especially now with Chinafeits), is never good for any of us and it'll be decades until they're all found. People will walk away from this hobby angered and with thousands of dollars thrown in the toilet.
I hope records were kept (lol) and LEO is thumbing through them, ideally reimbursing people (lol), or some sort of successful civil suit.
Send a guy to prison for 10 years for growing some personal use mushrooms worth less than 50 bucks, and some "butthead" like this is gonna end up on house arrest with no Internet access. SMFH.
I do.
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Yeah but that's too hard.
But kid fiddlers get 10 years and out in 5 on good behavior with time served and this guy will get hung on a cross.
This is really good news, and with the further information posted by @Greeniejr, it brings hope that the counterfeit coin issue is truly being addressed. Cheers, RickO