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BREAKING: Feds raid Copperfield warehouse!

Ummm yeah right. Is this a joke?

FBI agents stormed the warehouse and took a number of items for their investigation.

A source tells Eyewitness News there also appeared to be $2 million in cash inside the warehouse that was seized by the FBI.
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It's on TMZ.com so it must be true!! Although, reading the article it says "Los Angeles FOX affiliate KVVU is reporting that that magician David Copperfield is being investigated by the FBI." Umm...the Los Angeles FOX affiliate is KTTV. Perhaps the Las Vegas affiliate is KVVU.

I wonder what they're investigating him for?
 
greymatters said:
This news is just breaking. The Feds have just raided a warehouse owned by magician David Copperfield.

Updates as available at: http://tinyurl.com/29mebn

UPDATE: FBI agents also went to look around at the MGM Grand:

http://www.lasvegasnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=7234182
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Why does that first link lead me to a story about joke-telling urinals? Now, I have nothing against joke-telling urinals -- as long as the pee guards are installed, of course -- but what has that to do with the FBI?
 
jsfisher said:
Why does that first link lead me to a story about joke-telling urinals? Now, I have nothing against joke-telling urinals -- as long as the pee guards are installed, of course -- but what has that to do with the FBI?
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"what has that to do with the FBI?" If I told you, I would have to kill myself. :o
 
jsfisher said:
Why does that first link lead me to a story about joke-telling urinals? Now, I have nothing against joke-telling urinals -- as long as the pee guards are installed, of course -- but what has that to do with the FBI?
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Check again. The joke-telling urinals story is still there, but the stories are now mainly about the FBI raid.
 
Perhaps they're investigating him for secretive behavior? Many of us are witness to his flying without going through TSA checkpoints.
 
When you make that much money and the FBI raid your place, it's usually about taxes.
 
I already knew Copperfield made 57 million dollars last year. If somebody two weeks ago asked me to guess how much David Copperfield's act brought in last year I would have said, "57 million dollars." The most disturbing thing about this event is that Leno, Letterman, Kimmel and others are going to use super obvious jokes using words like "disappear" and "vanish," probably with multiple references to his previous feat -- securing a "contract" with and/or banging Claudia Schiffer.
 
Did they seize a hoard of fake tan and a lot of cheese(left over from his act).
 
Sorry, but I have this vision similar to someone breaking into the ACME Toon factory. I imagine pigeons flying everywhere, an agent stepping into a box and disappearing, dozens of rabbits hopping around, an elephant, a jet plane, and the Statue of Liberty hidden behind a bookcase, that sort of thing.
 
Questions:

* What evidence was sufficient enough not only to keep the investigation going, but to convince a judge to issue a warrant for a raid?

* I can understand why the FBI would take a digital camera, and maybe even the computers they took, but why did the FBI take the $2 million?
 
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