FBI seizes John Lennon fingerprints before auction

[JonLP24]

(Reuters Life!) - A set of John Lennon's fingerprints being auctioned for at least $100,000 was seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday 30 years after the singer's death.

The 1976 signed application for Lennon's U.S. citizenship was one of the hallmarks of about 850 celebrity items in an online sale timed around Lennon's 70th birthday on Saturday.

The fingerprint card was being shown to media at a midtown New York store early Wednesday in an auction preview of more than 90 Beatles items when the FBI faxed a subpoena there and took the card.

Lennon was born in Liverpool, England and had been investigated by the FBI in the early 1970s for anti-war activity.

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[slay]

1. WTF

i'm pretty sure MOST of the government is our enemy. :scared:

[MissHoneychurch]

2. Why in the world???

Are they afraid his ghost is coming back and leaves fingerprints???????????

[Chan790]

4. My guess is that the application was submitted...

thus it's government property. The only way it would make its' way into the public arena to be auctioned is if someone had stolen it from storage or archives. Such items are not released to the public ever, they're held or destroyed. Thus, it is in-itself proof of a crime, based on the appraisal value it represents grand theft. They perhaps mean to assert their claim to archival property (it legitimately could go to the SI or FBI Museum here in DC) or they mean it to be evidence against the thief at a later date.

[LiberalAndProud]

3. Somebody really has $100,000 to buy fingerprints.

fingerprints?

Well, alrighty then.
:crazy:

[Maccagirl]

5. Didn't an employee steal Lennon's diary amongst other

items? I think his name was Fred Seaman, but I don't know if or what ever happened regarding the allegations.