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Man accused of conning Home Depot of $300,000 by taking a bunch of doors without buying them (ca.news.yahoo.com)

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[-] DelnitaCrane@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago

The Secret Service was originally created to investigate counterfeiting currency, they only started Presidential protection after McKinley was assassinated. Combating financial fraud remains part of their mission today.

[-] aksdb@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

TIL.

I actually thought this must have been a "typo" in the article.

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