Who wants to be a trillionaire?

A Florida man who tried to steal more money than the U.S. owes China was indicted this week. A no-brainer nominee for world’s most ambitious/dumbest criminal, Marlon T. Moore — also known as “X-Large Moore” — filed an income tax return that sought a refund of nearly $15 trillion, The Miami Herald reported today. This failed swindle came just after Moore was released from prison in 2007 after serving a six-year sentence on money laundering charges related to a cocaine smuggling ring. Apparently he just loved the federal penitentiary life and couldn’t wait to get back in. The Herald reports:

Moore allegedly prepared bogus documents claiming that the feds owed him various amounts, including $5,950,000,000,000, $2,975,000,000,000 and $6,000,000,000,000.

Of course, Moore wasn’t entitled to a refund quite that large.

To put this in perspective, Moore’s requested $15 trillion refund is equivalent to:

• $48,666 from every man, woman and child in the United States
• $2,199 from every human being on earth
• 373 times the net worth of Bill Gates, the world’s richest person
• 37.3 million times President Barack Obama’s annual $400,00 salary — or enough to pay him through the year 37314509
• 54,273 times the value of Yankees Third Baseman Alex Rodriguez’s 10-year, $275 million contract
• 746,250 times the reported $20 million Will Smith typically pockets for doing a movie. That’s enough to pay the Fresh Prince to do one movie a day for the next 2,045 years.
• 7,619 times Zimbabwe’s $1.96 billion gross domestic product
• 48 times Switzerland’s $310 billion gross domestic product
• $105 billion more than the entire European Union’s $14.8 trillion gross domestic product
• Enough money to buy 18.8 trillion orders of Taco Bell triple layer nachos with enough left over for 73 billion cheesy double beef burritos and several million caramel apple empanadas for dessert.

It’s also more than 1,200 times the IRS budget for 2010.

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