Bank Fraud
The Freemen were known to produce their own very realistic counterfeit checks and money orders, sometimes ordering items and deliberately overpaying so they could demand refunds. The president of one bank reported that over an 18 month period his bank received two to five complaints a week about Freemen checks. In 1995 members wrote a fraudulent check to try to purchase 1.4 million dollars' worth of firearms, ammunition, and bulletproof vests.
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