Woman Pleads Guilty to Printing Thousands in Counterfeit Bills

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Tarshema Brice isn't a magician, but with the help of a Hewlett-Packard 3-in-1 printer, she was able to turn a $5 bill into $50 or $100.

Brice, a 34-year-old hairstylist and janitor, was arrested last September and pleaded guilty to counterfeiting in April. In total, Brice admitted to producing between $10,000 to $20,000 in fake bills over two years

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Brice's counterfeiting operation was hardly complex. As Bloomberg explains, Brice would take $5 bills with a specific watermark and soak them in a degreaser called "Purple Power." Following that, she would take a toothbrush and scrub off the ink. After drying the bills with a hairdryer, she then would take the blank bills and print scanned images of a $50 or $100 bill Read more...

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