‘It looks like a bag of dirt....
‘It looks like a bag of dirt. That’s precisely what it is.”
--Marcy Tiffany, a Federal Trade Commission official, displaying for reporters in Westwood a sample of worthless “ore” that a Costa Mesa firm allegedly used to entice hundreds of buyers to invest millions of dollars in Arizona desert.
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