Not sure what to do

I think that booch was working for someone who was a contractor for someone else - 'The big guy'.

Now, 'The big guy went into bankruptcy and stopped paying the contractor booch worked for.
But, the contractor did get paid various amounts and part of that money paid for supplys, part of those supplys was "The Copper".
The contractor, having no or little money, paid out his workers when/wherever he could, but was left with this 'Copper.

Now the contractor still owes booch, but booch has not got as much overheads as the other workers and wanted the contractor to pay those with overheads first, Nice guy.
And, booch also knows the scrapmetal side of things, boochs boss knows this, and so he offered booch this scrap- but new- Copper in lieu of wages owed. Nice guy for doing that.

Now booch wants to make 100% sure that no ones going to get 'burnt' with this scrap Copper....
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So, my thoughts. Its legal Copper. His boss did not go bankrupt, the top company did. before that though, that company did pay for things that boochs boss needed as a contractor, the Copper was part of this.
Boochs boss owns it. The top company shorted boochs boss and he has not got the money to pay his workers now.
So he has offered booch the Copper as wages.

1. Now, yep you don't want to get in trouble, or anyone else in trouble. So I would put the Copper aside for a while, quite a while, when Copper prices improve.

2. What form is the Copper wire in?
I know certain forms of wire are distinct to certain companys. These companys are the only companys that use this sort of wire, no one else does ever. These companys also scrap all of their own scrap.

So this certain wire will Never end up in a public scrapyard. If it does, its been illegally obtained and the scrapyard knows this and has to report it to the authoritys.
This is where booch can get in trouble.........



The rest I leave up to booch.