{"id":6975,"date":"2016-12-05T20:37:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T02:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=6975"},"modified":"2016-12-05T20:37:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T02:37:58","slug":"its-appalling-and-yet-i-giggle-a-little-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/05\/its-appalling-and-yet-i-giggle-a-little-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Appalling, and Yet I Giggle \u2026 a little"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight I heard on NPR<\/strong><\/em> that some group in Ghana put together a fake US Embassy<\/a>, and ran it for – a decade<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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For about a decade, Turkish and Ghanaian organized crime rings operated a fake U.S. embassy in Ghana’s capital, where they issued fraudulently obtained legitimate and counterfeit visas and ID documents costing $6,000 to people from across West Africa.<\/p>\n

That’s according to the U.S. State Department, which detailed how the operation worked.<\/p>\n

“In Accra, Ghana, there was a building that flew an American flag every Monday, Tuesday and Friday, 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Inside hung a photo of President Barack Obama, and signs indicated that you were in the U.S. Embassy in Ghana,” reads an article<\/a> from the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Bureau. “However, you were not. This embassy was a sham.”<\/p>\n

The “embassy” was shut down by Ghanaian authorities this summer, in cooperation with the real U.S. Embassy, following a tip from an informant. Authorities have arrested “several suspects” and confiscated “150 passports from 10 countries,” according to the article. They also discovered a fake Dutch embassy and continue to pursue “several” other suspects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What gall. I’m sure its purpose was entirely dishonorable, and possibly even people were hurt.<\/p>\n

But I can’t help but admire the balls and ingenuity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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