A footnote worth remembering.

There was an article today about an arrest in a big Brazilian bank heist.  TV movie stuff for sure.  But, what caught my attention was the footnote at the end of the story.

In 2003, $900 million in U.S. currency an [sic] 83 million euros ($100 million) were stolen from the Iraqi Central Bank.

Let's put that in numbers that are a bit more graphic.  Somebody stole $1,000,000,000.00, give or take, in the middle of the Iraq War.  No arrests.  No known leads.  No publicity.

A billion there, a billion here, pretty soon you're talking about real money.