The sell-off begins now: Forbes notes this morning that Maple Avenue-based Heritage Auctions is now

In January travel packages flighthotelcar discount of last year, Tony Rand, then 69, and his sons Greg and Bill pleaded guilty travel packages flighthotelcar discount to running a massive travel packages flighthotelcar discount Ponzi scheme under the moniker Aspen Explorations. The three men told 330 investors that their hard-earned money every last penny of the $68 million collected was going toward the drilling of oil and gas wells. But, no, not hardly: travel packages flighthotelcar discount According to federal documents, the Rands were instead buying lots of expensive travel packages flighthotelcar discount toys, including a 1967 VW bus, a 2006 Sunseeker Predator boat (worth more than $2 million), an honest-to-God travel packages flighthotelcar discount Picasso, jewelry and rare Gibson travel packages flighthotelcar discount guitars.
In the summer of 2011, the Rands were rewarded with lengthy stints in federal prison . The three men were also ordered to pay $99,707,758, in restitution; while the feds seized their ill-gotten goodies in the hopes of selling then off to recoup the swindled money.
The sell-off begins now: Forbes notes this morning that Maple Avenue-based Heritage Auctions is now in possession of the Rands 1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard Sunburst Left-Handed travel packages flighthotelcar discount Solid Body Electric Guitar , this 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard Sunburst Left-Handed Solid Body Electric Guitar , a 1959 Fender Stratocaster Blonde Hardtail Left-Handed Solid Body Electric Guitar and this Fender Stratocaster Sunburst Left-Handed Solid Body Electric Guitar . Each offering contains the note: Consigned by The United States Marshals Service. Profits benefit victims of the Aspen Energy Oil and Gas Investment Scheme.
Heritage says that of 1,600 Les Pauls that Gibson made between 1958 and 1960 only four were left handed. Of those four, one has been lost. Another, from 1960, belongs to Paul McCartney of the Beatles. The other two the only known 1959 model, and one from 1960 had been collected by the Rands.