now, here s some news you may find even more surprising. we re comcast. the only isp legally bound by full net neutrality rules. the rancher who found sue has received at least six offers to purchase the t-rex since the courts determined that the fossil is part of williams trust property, any purchase
once you start to understand the indictments, basically this is what they said. pretend we re in wyoming and we re standing in the middle of the prairie and let s assume for a moment that the fence is in the right place. you re standing on this side of the fence, the government says, right over there, on the other side of the fence, is this fabulous fossil. and they re basically saying that pete and neil and bob and whoever was out there would go step over the fence, wrongly, knowingly pick up the fossil, that they re not supposed to pick up, carry it back over the fence, put it in their car. when they drive from wyoming to south dakota, they then have conducted an illegal act, which is called interstate transportation of stolen property. they get back to the institute, they would make a phone call, send a fax, maybe, to japan and say, we found the thing that we were looking for. do you want to buy it? well, that s wire fraud. and then if the japanese museum were to purchase that fos
owned it. mr. williams. pete and neal had made a deal with maurice williams for $5,000. on that saturday, the day before we finished getting sue out of the ground, that we gave maurice williams a check for $5,000, that said for theropod sue on the bottom of the check. even though $5,000 may not seem like a lot, it was a lot of money for our company to spend, and no one had ever paid that much for an undiscovered fossil before. we had lots of conversations with maurice williams about what was happening to the dinosaur. he knew that we were going to bring it back to hill city. he was completely in favor of that. he knew about the museum we were building. he knew we were going to be preparing the fossil. that s about the only ones that we have. well, it s not the only one. almost. almost. and it s not. not completely.