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| Mackerel catches on as currency |
| By The Wall Street Journal |
| Published: 10/06/2008 |
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UNITED STATES -When Larry Levine helped prepare divorce papers for a client a few years ago, he got paid in mackerel. Once the case ended, he says, "I had a stack of macks." Levine and his client were prisoners in California's Lompoc Federal Correctional Complex. Like other federal inmates around the country, they found a can of mackerel -- the "mack" in prison lingo -- was the standard currency. "It's the coin of the realm," says Mark Bailey, who paid Levine in fish. Bailey was serving a two-year tax-fraud sentence in connection with a chain of strip clubs he owned. Levine was serving a nine-year term for drug dealing. Levine says he used his macks to get his beard trimmed, his clothes pressed and his shoes shined by other prisoners. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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