Friday, June 5, 2009

Asheville man charged in alleged Liberty Dollar fraud scheme

Asheville man charged in alleged Liberty Dollar fraud scheme:

"Clarke Morrison
Ashville Citizen-Times
Friday, June 5, 2009

Federal authorities arrested an Asheville man in what they said was a scheme to undermine the U.S. currency system and defraud consumers with so-called Liberty Dollars.

William Kevin Innes marketed the “barter” currency in Western North Carolina and recruited merchants willing to accept it and give it as change for products bought with real money, according to an indictment unsealed this week.

Innes, 53, faces up to 45 years in prison if convicted. He was indicted along with Bernard von NotHaus, president of the National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve and Internal Revenue Codes, and two other defendants from Indiana associated with the corporation."

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