Read more forgery stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/26832/forgery.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 9:12:18 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74231/men-try-to-rob-bank-with-fake-search-warrant.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFive Nevada men are set to appear in federal court today after allegedly attempting to rob a bank armed only with handcuffs and a fake search warrant. These criminal masterminds claimed that the search warrant entitled them to take all the money out of the bank’s vault, according to the...http://www.newser.com/story/74231/men-try-to-rob-bank-with-fake-search-warrant.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 17 Nov 2009 13:33:05 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72784/the-strange-story-of-jack-kerouacs-estate.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhen Jack Kerouac died, wallowing in alcohol and obscurity, the bank estimated his estate’s value at $1. He left everything to his mother, and when she died, she left it to Kerouac’s third wife, Stella Sampas—or so everyone believed. Recently a Florida court ruled Gabrielle Kerouac's will a forgery....http://www.newser.com/story/72784/the-strange-story-of-jack-kerouacs-estate.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 29 Oct 2009 13:30:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70276/sarkozy-oversteps-in-rancorous-trial-with-foe.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNicolas Sarkozy may have crossed the line in the continuing trial of his political foe Dominique de Villepin, the former French prime minister accused of waging a smear campaign against him in 2004. During a TV interview in New York, Sarkozy called Villepin and his co-defendants "the guilty parties"—reinforcing...http://www.newser.com/story/70276/sarkozy-oversteps-in-rancorous-trial-with-foe.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 25 Sep 2009 5:34:27 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68707/jesus-burial-box-trial-gets-thorny.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe public is already frowning on a Tel Aviv man accused of forging the burial box of Jesus' brother James, but the judge in the case has hinted that the case is weak, Matthew Kalman writes in Time . Two scientists, witnesses for the prosecution, have testified that geological conditions could...http://www.newser.com/story/68707/jesus-burial-box-trial-gets-thorny.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 05 Sep 2009 16:18:21 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67953/missing-picasso-found-in-iraq-probably-not.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIraqi security forces have secured a purported Pablo Picasso painting believed stolen from a Kuwaiti museum during the 1990 invasion, the Times of London reports. Only it’s probably not a Picasso. “It bears absolutely no relation to any Picasso that I can think of,” says one expert. Iraqi forces obtained...http://www.newser.com/story/67953/missing-picasso-found-in-iraq-probably-not.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 27 Aug 2009 15:45:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67807/the-astor-trial-so-far-high-society-low-class.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMeryl Gordon has a plum seat at the so-called Brooke Astor trial, in which her son, Anthony Marshall, stands accused of thievery. Complete with the crème de la crème of New York society recounting terrible things and scathing Astorisms, Gordon writes in Vanity Fair , it’s a “story about money that...http://www.newser.com/story/67807/the-astor-trial-so-far-high-society-low-class.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 26 Aug 2009 22:56:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64937/uk-art-honcho-we-need-more-fakes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe head of London’s National Gallery wishes “we had more fakes,” he tells Reuters. “It’s worth having some in a collection. Not having them on display for what they pretend to be, but for what they are,” Nicholas Penny explains ahead of a 2010 show exploring imitations. In the Gallery’s...http://www.newser.com/story/64937/uk-art-honcho-we-need-more-fakes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 21 Jul 2009 14:53:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62151/ny-man-posed-as-dead-mom-in-alleged-fraud-scheme.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagShades of Norman Bates in Psycho : A Brooklyn man accused of dressing up as his dead mom to collect Social Security checks and rent subsidies worth $115,000 has been indicted on 47 counts of grand larceny, forgery, and conspiracy, the New York Daily News reports. Thomas Prusik-Parkin, 49, and...http://www.newser.com/story/62151/ny-man-posed-as-dead-mom-in-alleged-fraud-scheme.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 17 Jun 2009 17:14:27 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59617/scammer-i-forged-author-signatures.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA man who made more than $300,000 by selling "autographed" first editions of books that actually contained forged signatures pleaded guilty to fraud in a Philadelphia court today. Forrest Smith's offerings on eBay included books by Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Anne Rice, Tom Wolfe, and Tom Clancy, the Los...http://www.newser.com/story/59617/scammer-i-forged-author-signatures.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 20 May 2009 15:10:01 CDT