#counterfeiter

[mudwerks]

(via How Counterfeit Money Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider - YouTube)

this guy is REALLY good at it

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"3 YEARS For Making COINS," Vancouver Sun. July 31, 1934. Page 3. --- COUNTERFEITING AN ATTACK ON GOV'T, SAYS MAGISTRATE ---- Forbes McGregor, admitted counterfeiter, was sentenced to three years in New Westminster penitentiary by Magistrate McKay in Vancouver City Police Court this morning.

"This is a most serious offense," said the magistrate, in passing sentence. "It is so serious, in fact, that parliament in framing the law fixed the maximum penalty at life imprisonment. Your action in tampering with the currency is really in the nature of an attack on the Government and the country."

"I didn't think of that," responded McGregor.

"Well," continued the magistrate, "I'll give you a little time to think it over. You will serve three years in the penitentiary, with hard labor."

Before sentence was passed, Detective Corporal R. S. S. Wilson of the R.C.M.P. who made the arrest. stated that while the accused had not been charged with uttering bogus coins, but possession of counterfeit moulds, the police had evidence that some coins of McGregor's "mint" had been circulated in Vancouver.

In accordance with law, Magistrate McKay ordered that the moulds and bogus quarters found in McGregor's room be sent to the Minister of Finance for destruction.

[gwydionmisha]

How the Alchemist of New England Became a Legendary Counterfeiter

Glazier Wheeler turned his skill for manipulating silver into profitable schemes.

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“Four Years for Having Counterfeiting Plates,” Sault Star. December 12, 1932. Page 1. ---- Kitchener, Ont.. Dec. 12.- (C. P.) - Louis Politsky, Kitchener and Joe Weyman. Waterloo, were today sentenced to four years in Portsmouth penitentiary for illegal possession of copper plates intended to resemble a $10 banknote. Frank Weyman brother of Joe, was sentenced to two years less a day in the Ontario Reformatory on similar charges.

[AL: Politsky or Bolitsky was 30, married, from Kitchener of Polish extraction, and was a printer by trade. He was convict #2896 and worked in the print shop,  but was transferred to Collin’s Bay Penitentiary April 1934 as #695 and released on parole February 1935. Weyman was 27, single, from Poland direct, and a tire-maker. He was convict #2895 at Kingston Penitentiary, transferred to Collins Bay Penitentiary May 1933, becoming convict #556, and was paroled May 1935.] 

[nakeddeparture]

Bridgetown, Barbados. Anderson Leon Browne. Who is (or was) the politician? We know they were working with many people in key positions, but please tell us…,

https://youtu.be/KiwtO7CQS6s

who is the politician that helped with this bank fraud? Who is the bank official who got screwed? Why has the police and your AG not made an arrest (that last part was really a joke 🫢, excuse me). Naked!!

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“Un simple appareil pour contrefaire la monnaie,” La Presse. March 10, 1933. Page 9. ---- Athanase Viau, 2094 rue Amherst, a été trouvé coupable, hier, par le juge Amédée Monet d'avoir eu en sa possession des instruments pour la fabrication de pièces de monnaie. Il recevra sa sentence le 30 du courant. En attendant il a été laissé en liberté provisoire sous trois cautionnements de $950.

Le principal témoin dans cette cause fut le sergent T.-G. Srogg, de la Sûreté fédérale, qui produisit et expliqua un appareil composé de trols planchettes et d'une lime qui servait à l'accusé à faire les rayures du cordon sur les pièces de vingt-cinq sous en plomb qu'll fabriquait.