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In Brazil, whether it is illegal for a person to burn his or her own money is a controversial topic. [25] It is not mentioned explicitly in Brazilian law. João Sidney Figueiredo Filho, [26] has affirmed that "when money is inside the Central Bank, then it is the property of the National Treasury. When it leaves, it is not."
Producing or using counterfeit money is a form of fraud or forgery, and is illegal in all jurisdictions of the world. The business of counterfeiting money is nearly as old as money itself: plated copies (known as Fourrées ) have been found of Lydian coins , which are thought to be among the first Western coins. [ 1 ]
Bill Cosby admitted to stealing a joke by George Carlin involving an uneducated football player doing a television commercial. Cosby said that what makes the routine his own is the surreal phrase "little tiny hairs".
The bill was quickly amended, with lawmakers quipping that the audience was watching live legislating, to ban exact copies of official sample ballots that contained misleading information.
The United States one-hundred-thousand-dollar bill (US$100,000) is a former denomination of United States currency issued from 1934 to 1935. The bill, which features President Woodrow Wilson, was created as a large denomination note for gold transactions between Federal Reserve Banks; it never circulated publicly and its private possession is illegal.
The Stolen Valor Act of 2013 (Pub. L. 113–12 (text); H.R. 258) is a United States federal law that was passed by the 113th United States Congress.The law amends the federal criminal code to make it a crime for a person to fraudulently claim having received a valor award specified in the Act, with the intention of obtaining money, property, or other tangible benefit by convincing another that ...
In the Netherlands, a first attempt towards a partial prohibition on face covering was made from 2012 to 2015, but the bill was struck down. A new attempt was made in the years after when a new bill was submitted on 27 November 2015. Eventually a limited anti-mask law was passed on 26 June 2018.
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