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No. The crime was forging the checks, and that occurred in a locality, not while crossing state lines. It might be a federal crime to carry stolen property (the checkbook) across state lines. If the police had actually done their jobs a bit faster and charged him, then crossing state lines would have made him an interstate fugitive, and at that point you can contact the FBI, but he was never charged.

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We must stop electing politicians who bend us over to be fisted by Big Business oligarchs and Wall Street money changers.

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If the earth was flat, cats would've knocked everything over the edge by now.

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Thanks for the explanation!

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He has disappeared, and I say good riddance. One day he won't be able to pay his drug bill and someone will shoot him. I just hope he has ID on him at the time so the family is notified that he is dead. That way we can all stop wishing he was dead.

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families can figure these things out for themselves, but passing down any wealth in the form of cash or real-estate is a worthy approach. i'm not sure what's ghoulish in doing what you can to give a leg up to your own kids. i have trouble adopting a mindset where i have 0 care for my kids' financial well-being once they leave my house.

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That's not what your previous comment, the one that I responded to, was about. You've changed the subject.

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New accounts, not necessarily loans, but, yeah that's them.

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You'd need a load of manure to go with it.

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Can his family/estate sue over this?

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I am blind guessing that they might get wrongful death into civil court but buck passing for the fault would end up on some stupid schlub who fat fingered the wrong address in the first place. And then they'd say "not our fault he was sick"I believe that one of the drawbacks of the bailout was a layer of protections for the banks if they coughed up something for a lot of the people they screwed over.

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Yeah, if you've no kids, and stage 4 lung cancer.

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My problem is I'd get confused and light my Wild Turkey!

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You had to mention Gangnam Style. Now I have to post my favorite parody (complete with One Guy labeled "Not An Astronaut"https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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That sure doesn't auger well for Wells Fargo!

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thanks

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