Editing D. B. Cooper (section)

===Search for ransom money===
A month after the hijacking, the FBI distributed lists of the ransom serial numbers to financial institutions, [[casino]]s, racetracks, businesses with routine transactions involving large amounts of cash, and to law-enforcement agencies around the world. Northwest Orient offered a reward of 15% of the recovered money, to a maximum of $25,000. In early 1972, U.S. Attorney General [[John N. Mitchell]] released the serial numbers to the general public.<ref name=nymagtimeline/> Two men used counterfeit $20 bills printed with Cooper serial numbers to swindle $30,000 from a ''[[Newsweek]]'' reporter named Karl Fleming in exchange for an interview with a man they falsely claimed was the hijacker.<ref>[https://vault.fbi.gov/D-B-Cooper%20/D-B-Cooper-Part-1-of-7/view FBI files on Fleming case, released via Freedom of Information Act] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161214214008/https://vault.fbi.gov/D-B-Cooper%20/D-B-Cooper-Part-1-of-7/view |date=December 14, 2016 }} Retrieved February 15, 2011.</ref><ref name=Everett1972>{{cite news |last=Holles |first=Everett R. |date=November 26, 1972 |title=$200,000 hijacking by 'D. B. Cooper' is still a mystery |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/26/archives/200000-hijacking-by-d-b-cooper-is-still-a-mystery.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=February 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201110131455/https://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/26/archives/200000-hijacking-by-d-b-cooper-is-still-a-mystery.html |archive-date=November 10, 2020}}</ref>

In early 1973, with the ransom money still missing, ''[[The Oregon Journal]]'' republished the serial numbers and offered $1,000 ({{Inflation|US|1000|1973|fmt=eq}}) to the first person to turn in a ransom bill to the newspaper or any FBI field office. In Seattle, the ''[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer|Post-Intelligencer]]'' made a similar offer with a $5,000 reward. The offers remained in effect until Thanksgiving 1974, and though several near matches were reported, no genuine bills were found.{{sfn|Himmelsbach|Worcester|1986|p=95}} In 1975, Northwest Orient's insurer, Global Indemnity Co., complied with an order from the [[Supreme Court of Minnesota|Minnesota Supreme Court]] and paid the airline's $180,000 ({{Inflation|US|180000|1975|fmt=eq|r=-5}}) claim on the ransom money.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Northwest Airlines, Inc. v. Globe Indem. Co.|url=https://law.justia.com/cases/minnesota/supreme-court/1975/44904-1.html|access-date=January 14, 2022|website=Justia Law|language=en|archive-date=January 14, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220114004953/https://law.justia.com/cases/minnesota/supreme-court/1975/44904-1.html|url-status=live}}</ref>