Update: News of the Wierd

Back in August on 2008, I blogged the story of a customs broker who was being investigated after having gone to the Federal Reserve to turn in some battered currency for clean new money. According to the original story, the money was found in Mexico.

Yesterday, the Washington Post ran an update on the story. The money involved totaled some $6.4 million and was found buried at a warehouse in Mexico. As it turns out, and contrary to my first post, the broker involved appears to have crossed all the t's and dotted all the i's to properly bring the currency into the U.S.

Still, there is something fishy going on as there was a settlement payment made to the U.S. Assuming this were truly just found money, it's not clear to me that there would be any need to settle anything. So, is there something more to this?

Even with that tail hanging just a bit, it's nice to have an end to the mystery.