FBI seizes John Lennon fingerprints

[cynatnite]

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – A set of John Lennon's fingerprints being auctioned for at least $100,000 was seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday 30 years after the singer's death.

The 1976 signed application for Lennon's U.S. citizenship was one of the hallmarks of about 850 celebrity items in an online sale timed around Lennon's 70th birthday on Saturday.

The fingerprint card was being shown to media at a midtown New York store early Wednesday in an auction preview of more than 90 Beatles items when the FBI faxed a subpoena there and took the card.

snip:
"We're investigating how the item came to be in a private collection," FBI spokesman James Margolin said. "It is apparently a government document and would not normally be in the commercial stream."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101007/od_nm/us_lennon_fingerprints

[katty]

1. wow, the FBI has way too much time on their hands as

America is drowning in much bigger problems, they get their knickers in a bunch over this?!

[RKP5637]

2. Amazing, simply amazing. n/t

[leveymg]

3. Probably an extra set taken at the time his lawyer was compiling the Natz application

Why would the FBI assume its the one from his official INS files?

I agree, too much time on their hands. Maybe, the Bureau could use some management restructuring.