United States 1933 Double Eagle $20 Gold Coin
The
1933 double eagle $20 gold coin is one of American Numismatics’ most notorious coins. Only one surviving specimen was ever monetized and made legal to own, yet an uncertain number of examples still exist.
When the
United States made the controversial decision in 1933 to suspend the gold standard that it had based its monetary policy on since the turn of the 20th century, most double eagles dated that year were summarily melted down. It was an ignoble end for the most spectacular of all American coin designs.
That American sculptor
Augustus Saint-Gaudens would have a hand in creating that design and remaking American coinage was no easy accomplishment. The world-renowned sculptor, venerated in his time and even more so sense, had a serious distaste for the Mint’s bureaucracy and an even lesser opinion of its chief engraver. He turned down more commissions than he could possibly accept. Commissions with even better terms. A
LOS ANGELES A San Dimas man pleaded guilty today to a federal criminal charge that he fraudulently obtained more than $500,000 in COVID-19-related unemployment benefits in the names of foreign nationals he falsely claimed were local real estate agents hit hard financially by the pandemic.
Bonifacio Jastilana Marinas pleaded guilty to a single-count criminal information charging him with mail fraud.
According to his plea agreement, from April 2020 to August 2020, Marinas took advantage of provisions in the CARES Act to file approximately 85 unemployment insurance claims with the California Employment Development Department (EDD) that falsely asserted that the named claimants were self-employed real estate agents in Los Angeles County whose jobs had been adversely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Marinas often listed his own real estate business – Vintage Realty & Finance Inc., located in West Covina – as the purported workplace of the named claimants.
Updated: 6:40 PM EST Feb 17, 2021 Hundreds of millions of dollars have been stolen from the pot of money that s supposed to help struggling businesses, and people laid off during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Justice Department alleges a $3.7 million mansion on Symphony Grove Drive, in Disney s exclusive Golden Oak Community, was nearly bought with money stolen by a family running a fake ministry.WESH 2 News identified Mary Edwards, son Joshua, daughter Joy and Mary s husband, Evan Edwards, on a photo on the back of a book he wrote on how to be happy and successful. State records indicate that the family ran Aslan International Ministry, from a now-closed Orlando office.A complaint says the same family is head of Church Of Florida Inc. which is alleged to have fraudulently obtained Paycheck Protection Program money. In September, agents say they stopped the Edwards family on I-75, fleeing the state, and uncovered $7.6 million in the family s Bank Of America accounts, and
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Nicola Sharp of financial crime specialists Rahman Ravelli
believes new US legislation should reduce the chance of similar
offending.
Europol says it has dismantled an organised crime group that
defrauded more than 50 US banks out of an estimated $14.4M.
It has announced that, on one day last October, an international
operation led by Spanish police and the United States Secret
Service carried out 40 house searches, arrested 37 suspects, seized
13 luxury cars and froze 87 bank accounts. In total, the operation
– known as Operation Secreto - led to 88 house searches and
US Department Of Justice: Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers Delivers Remarks On The National Security Cyber Investigation Into North Korean Operatives - Justice Department Announces New Charges In United States V. Jon Chang Hyok, Kim Il, And Park Jin Hyok (CDCA)
US Department Of Justice: Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers Delivers Remarks On The National Security Cyber Investigation Into North Korean Operatives - Justice Department Announces New Charges In United States V. Jon Chang Hyok, Kim Il, And Park Jin Hyok (CDCA) Date
17/02/2021
Today, the Justice Department is announcing charges following a significant national security cyber investigation first disclosed publicly more than two years ago.