Re: "Cleaning Up the Burke"

[Dinosaur World <dinoworld@msn.com>]

Is there any hope of bringing the scientific community and the private 
collectors to work together in some way? It seems to me that neither side 
wants to deal with the other, and so the public is the big looser in these 
new "Bone Wars".
Have there been any steps taken to work with each other?


From: Lee Garrison <rgarrisonjr@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: rgarrisonjr@hotmail.com
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: "Cleaning Up the Burke"
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 19:33:45 -0400

Larson tried to import $31,700 from Japan in traveler's checks.  This was a 
violation of 31 U.S.C.A. § 5316(a)(1)(A):

"Any individual who imports or exports $10,000 or more in monetary 
instruments must complete Customs report form - applies to traveler's checks 
in any form, whether restrictively endorsed or not."

Lee


> From: David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
> Reply-To: david.marjanovic@gmx.at
> To: DML <dinosaur@usc.edu>
> Subject: Re: "Cleaning Up the Burke"
> Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 01:23:14 +0200
>
> > Well from the headlines, I.'ve not actually studied in great detail, it
> > always seemed to me that the case against the Larson's was a bit like
> > getting Al Capone on tax evasion.
> >
> > They had upset the establishment by finding the best T-rex [sic!] ever,
> > and the establishment was going to get them one way or another.
>
> Excuse me... lumping the police and the universities (and the judge, I 
> presume) as "the establishment", and then alleging that this bizarre 
> conglomerate is _so_ childish that it hurts, strikes me as among the least 
> plausible of conspiracy "theories" (speculations, that is).
>
> I'm not saying it's wrong -- I don't know any of the involved people 
> personally, for starters.
>
> But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The claim in 
> question is QUITE extraordinary, and no evidence has surfaced so far.
>
> ----------------
>
> Now... how much money did Larson try to import?