Why the US government once sued a Nevada casino over a 14-pound solid gold rooster – Quartz


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Why the US government once sued a Nevada casino over a 14-pound solid gold rooster
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Invited onlookers jeered and hissed as the agents confiscated the statue, whose attorney decried a “colossal miscarriage of justice.” The renegade fowl in question was a nine-and-a-half-inch-tall, 14-pound bird made of solid 18-karat gold. Prior to his

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