Dunno if this has been posted already and US media avoid this story like a fire.
Italy’s financial police (Guardia italiana di Finanza) has seized US bonds worth US 134.5 billion from two Japanese nationals at Chiasso (40 km from Milan) on the border between Italy and Switzerland. They include
249 US Federal Reserve bonds worth US$ 500 million each, plus ten
Kennedy bonds and other US government securities
worth a billion dollar each.
http://www.marketskeptics.com/2009/0...ury-bonds.html