The Old Counterfeiter of 96th Street (New York, York: neighborhood, bills, dog)

[Aeran]

Interesting tale. I've seen some fake bills in my life but not as bad as that.

https://ilovetheupperwestside.com/th...f-96th-street/

It was pure chance – and a fire – that a junkman in his 70s residing on the Upper West Side with his dog got nabbed by the U.S. Secret Service for a decade-long counterfeiting scheme passing $1 bills in and around the neighborhood.

The incredulous part of this counterfeiting scheme is that Juettner’s ability to replicate a dollar bill was terrifically awful by any counterfeiter’s standards: George Washington’s name was misspelled, “Wahsington.”; regular stationery paper was used; and on the engraving plate, Washington’s left eye was a mere spot and his shirt looked soiled, among other gaffes, according to a Secret Service report in an article by The New Yorker, Old Eight Eighty, by St. Clair McKelway.

[markjames68]

Interesting. Would have been fun to see the actual flaws.

[NJ Brazen_3133]

How he going to profit by passing them around? When you are a counterfeiting, you do good work, and then use it yourself.