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Posted on Jul 10, 2014

A Ridiculous 1994 Ad Campaign For Sequoia National Forest Has Finally Been Released

In 1994, a man calling himself Lucas Speilberg swindled $40,000 from the Sequoia National Forest marketing department in exchange for a "high-end Hollywood-level" TV campaign. Twenty years later, and after 63 FOIA requests, the campaign (funded by taxpayer money) is now public.