The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 24, June 12, 2005, Article 4

OHIO-DUPONT SPECULATION

Alan V. Weinberg writes about a possible connection between
the Ohio Workers Compensation Coin scandal and the 1967
duPont home invasion robbery:

"There was a speculative and tenuous connection made this
week between these two incidents. My 20+ years Los
Angeles Police Dept experience taught me to question all
coincidences. Turns out there are very few.

That two rare coins identified as having been stolen in the
1967 Willis Du Pont home invasion robbery, perpetrated
undoubtedly by organized crime (number of armed thieves
involved, the precision of the "operation", coins disappearing
for decades and re-appearing clear across half a continent),
would have been coins "stolen" from registered mail in 2003
is just too coincidental.

It is more than likely that organized crime saw an opportunity
to "launder" these expensive stolen coins, easily recognized in
the hobby, by selling them into the Ohio Work Comp
investment fund. Then, when either too much suspicion
developed about the fund or the dealers involved with the
fund recognized the nature of the coins, the coins were
suddenly "stolen".

This is the kind of coincidence that makes law enforcement's
eyebrows rise and noses twitch.

I'm certain the FBI is inquiring into the nature of organized
crime's involvement, directly or indirectly, in this Ohio coin
investment scandal."

Tom Fort forwarded a link to another article about the
"Coingate" scandal in the online Salon magazine: Full Story

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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