20th Century History

  1. Home
  2. Education
  3. 20th Century History
photo of Jennifer Rosenberg

Jennifer's 20th Century History Blog

By Jennifer Rosenberg, About.com Guide to 20th Century History since 1997

Theft at the U.S. National Archives

Wednesday April 4, 2007
A 40-year-old intern at the U.S. National Archives has apparently been stealing Civil War documents and then selling them on Ebay. The theft was discovered when some of the records on Ebay were recognized by a Civil War book publisher. The intern stole 164 documents and had already shipped out nearly half of them to the high bidders when the theft was discovered. Luckily, all but three of the documents have already been recovered. The intern, who has pled guilty, could face up to ten years in jail and a hefty $250,000 fine.

Comments

April 7, 2007 at 12:53 am
(1) william cormeny says:

Mike Musick used to control the Archives’ Civil War records. Is he still there? Who hired this intern?

Leave a Comment

Line and paragraph breaks are automatic. Some HTML allowed: <a href="" title="">, <b>, <i>, <strike>

Discuss

Community Forum

Explore 20th Century History

About.com Special Features

20th Century History

  1. Home
  2. Education
  3. 20th Century History

©2009 About.com, a part of The New York Times Company.

All rights reserved.