[78-L] fwd: HiFi Gal Strikes Again

[David Lennick]

 From Toast of New York:

On 12/27/2011 5:54 PM, Sam Brylawski wrote:
> Hi-fi Gal is Les Waffen, who has pleaded guilty of taking surplus
> recordings from the National Archives. (It was stupid as well as illegal,
> but apparently everything he took and sold was surplus or out-of-scope of
> their collecting policy.)
>
> I suspect that what Les sold were AFRTS discs or V-discs or some other
> gov't-produced pressings. However it seems to me (not a lawyer, etc., etc.)
> that the burden of proof of exactly what Les sold to you, and who owned it
> originally, should be on the Archives.
>
> Have fun!
>
> Sam Brylawski
>
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Bob Conrad<bob07024 at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>
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>> In today's mail was a large manilla envelope containing an unfolded
>> one-page letter from an assistant inspector general for investigations at
>> the National Archives. He's informing me that I may have purchased material
>> from an eBay seller in Rockville, MD using the name "hi-fi_gal" that is
>> believed to have been stolen from NARA. They are giving me 10 business days
>> to return all of the items to them. The problem is, they don't tell me what
>> the items are! I purchase many things from eBay each and every week and I
>> have no idea what I may have bought from this one particular seller.
>>
>> It's more than likely that other ToNY members soon will be receiving a
>> similar letter from the National Archives in College Park, MD.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas of what to do? I can't very well send them something
>> if I don't know what it is.
>>
>> NJBob
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