Starbucks Apologizes to Knoller for $50 Debacle

The case of Starbucks versus the White House reporter who only had a 50-dollar bill for breakfast is over. Earlier in the week, FBDC’s Peter Ogburn reported that Mark Knoller went to breakfast at Starbucks near the White House. But when he went to pay up, they wouldn’t accept his bill. So Knoller did what any self-respecting CBS Radio White House correspondent would do — he wrote to Treasury Sec. Tim Geithner over Twitter about the legitimacy of his money.

And then he basically refused to say anymore.

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