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Pat Heller: Liberty Dollar's von Not Haus did nothing wrong or unusual
12:07a ET Thursday, March 8, 2012
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Patrick A. Heller, proprietor of Liberty Coin Service in Lansing, Michigan, has written a brilliant letter, full of specific details of U.S. monetary history, to U.S. District Judge Richard L. Voorhees of the Western District of North Carolina in support of leniency in sentencing of Liberty Dollar founder Bernard von Not Haus, whose conviction a year ago on a charge resembling counterfeiting seems to many of us to be a gross injustice.
Heller notes that private currency using the word "dollar" long has circulated and continues to circulate without penalty in the United States, and that von Not Haus never represented his currency as issue of the U.S. government. Heller's letter is posted at Numismaster here:
http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=24826
If you're inclined to join Heller in urging the judge to be lenient with von Not Haus, here's the judge's address:
U.S. District Judge Richard L. Voorhees
U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina
250 Charles R. Jonas Federal Building
401 West Trade St.
Charlotte, North Carolina 28202
USA
That the judge has delayed sentencing so long may imply that he is reconsidering the important issues raised by the von Not Haus case, cited in the appeal brief filed by GATA:
http://www.gata.org/files/GATAAmicusBriefLibertyDollar-06-01-2011.pdf
Other commentary on those issues is here:
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