The FBI is still messing with John Lennon! The late musician's fingerprints (part of his application for citizenship circa 1976) were about to hit the auction block this Saturday, but the feds seized the card yesterday after an hourlong stand-off, according to the NY Times. The owner of the shop holding the auction, Peter Siegel, said for the past week the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the United States attorney in Manhattan had been asking about the card. A spokesman for the FBI would only say that there was an “investigation into how that item came to be up for auction.”
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