Liberty Dollar founder avoids imprisonment in sentencing

``We have it only through a reliable intermediary that Liberty Dollar founder Bernard von Not Haus, oonvicted rather strangely almost four years ago of counterfeiting for issuing silver coins worth more than the originals they were supposed to be imitating, received a lenient sentence today from Judge Richard Voorhees in U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina -- six months of home confinement and three years of probation.'' -- This is an obvious face-save move by the government; it is clear by now (with the thousands of letters received, pro-Nothaus) that there was no cognizable "crime", as Liberty dollars did not at all imitate US legal tender...