It's Saturday morning cartoon time. Angel Cruz, a Kissimmee man---Kissimmee is just south of Orlando---is launching 'The United States Private Dollar,' which he claims will rival the U.S. dollar. Now two Kissimmee organizations are under investigation for issuing "worthless checks" to employees who believed in their scheme.

Victor Manuel Ramos of the Orlando Sentinel has the story in today's edition:

Thursday evening, the nonprofit JC Consultores Laborales released a statement distancing itself from financial partner The United Cities Corp., which printed checks deemed fraudulent by a federal agency. The nonprofit used those checks to pay its workers.

In the statement, the nonprofit's president, Josefina Calderon, said she was "very concerned" about the lack of payment to several dozen employees for "not only the hours worked but the monthly expenses too."

This is a real story, in a real newspaper. These guys claim they have $300 million in paper on the streets now...