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FEDS CONFISCATE CRITIC'S CASH
August 14, 2008 --
http://snipurl.com/3g5k0 [www_nypost_com]
FORMER New York Times movie critic Elvis Mitchell better come up with a
good explanation for what he was doing with $12,000 in cash in a cigar
box - or he won't get the money back.
On Friday, the US government filed an application to keep the cash that
border guards found on Mitchell last April 27, when his taxi crossed
into his hometown of Detroit as he returned from a documentary film
festival in Toronto. "A search of Mitchell's belongings uncovered the
box full of money along with [15] Cuban cigars," Canada's Windsor Star
reports.
"He gave us a declaration for $80 and they found $12,000 US and the
cigars," said border patrol chief Ron Smith.
Mitchell - who's now busy promoting "The Black List," the HBO
documentary about race he co-produced with Timothy Greenfield-Sanders -
told authorities the money was an accumulation of ATM withdrawals over
the past year.
But he told Page Six yesterday he "grabbed the wrong box" from his
apartment. "I have a fear of banks, so I keep cash in my house and I
grabbed the wrong box," Mitchell said. "I took it into the country and
out. The cigars, well I should have smoked them before I left," he
laughed.
US law requires any traveler carrying more than $10,000 in cash to
report it to authorities. Mitchell said his lawyer is trying to get the
dough back. "He's filed papers and within the next few weeks I'll
probably get it back," he said, adding he was "embarrassed" by the
situation.
"Apparently a black man with dreads can't carry that much cash, but I
think there are a few worse things to be embarrassed about. I haven't
cheated on my wife like some in the news," Mitchell said. |
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