When Neal is reading through the syllabus for the criminology class, the section under "Neal Caffery" is about "Adam Goodnoff: Confidence Man". 'Adam Goodnoff' is the second on-set dresser for the 6 episodes of White Collar from Season 2 so far.
At the beginning of the end credits, there is a dedication that reads: In Memory of John Bolz 1970 - 2010. Bolz worked on the show as a best boy rigging grip for four installments. He died in a car accident on May 10, 2010, in Stanfordville, New York, USA.
Neal refers to one of Oswald's schemes as a "copying Tokeley-Parry". In the 1990's, Jonathan Tokeley-Parry smuggled thousands of authentic antiquities out of Egypt by disguising them as cheap replicas with temporary alterations. Once clear, he removed those alterations and sold the pieces on to museums and private collectors at true value. Although he was sentenced to multiple consecutive terms for his crimes, he ultimately only served three years in prison.
The syllabus reads (misspellings of "apprehended" and Neal's surname left intact):
"A new breed of forger, technological virtuoso with a classical artistic foundation. Suspected of art forgery, theft of the Antioch manuscripts, and convicted of bond forgery. Caffery (sic) was suspected of hundreds of thefts before agent Burke of the FBI appended (sic) him. His highly sophisticated schemes made it difficult for the FBI to follow his trail, along with his mastery of the arts made many of his crimes go unnoticed for many years, long after the trail was cold.
He had a few accomplices, none on record, most of the time choosing to work alone, keeping the number of people that could turn him in to near zero. It is estimated that he forged over 10.3 billion dollars of priceless antiquities. Never the wiser, the FBI pursued him for six years and finally caught him."
"A new breed of forger, technological virtuoso with a classical artistic foundation. Suspected of art forgery, theft of the Antioch manuscripts, and convicted of bond forgery. Caffery (sic) was suspected of hundreds of thefts before agent Burke of the FBI appended (sic) him. His highly sophisticated schemes made it difficult for the FBI to follow his trail, along with his mastery of the arts made many of his crimes go unnoticed for many years, long after the trail was cold.
He had a few accomplices, none on record, most of the time choosing to work alone, keeping the number of people that could turn him in to near zero. It is estimated that he forged over 10.3 billion dollars of priceless antiquities. Never the wiser, the FBI pursued him for six years and finally caught him."
This episode came out in 2010. In 1991 the trade embargo with South Africa ended and it became legal to own Krugerrand in the United States. So technically the FBI would have no right to go after anybody dealing with that coin.