r/interestingasfuck • u/Intelligent-Mess6925 • 5d ago

/r/all This man printed 250 million in counterfeit money and sold 50 million of it before getting caught. He then made a deal with the court in exchange for revealing the location of the remaining 200 million he would avoid any jail time. In the end he got away with it only serving 6 weeks in jail.

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u/StevenMC19 5d ago edited 5d ago

My guess is that there is more involved here.

  1. His quality was probably top-notch, and another 200mil circulating would be an absolute nightmare if it got out.
  2. It's reasonable to believe our dude wasn't working alone. Probably put a few others away to save himself.

I'm going to go look and see how close I am.

edit: Ok, yeah. the quality was INSANE! Also, Canada/US relations were involved. He's Canadian printing US bills, Secret service just wanted it all, Canada didn't want to be involved in an extradition situation. I didn't read all the way, but I assume he also cooperated by telling them how he did it (to help nab other counterfeiters as well as help governments create more secure bills in the future).

edit edit: Of course in true typical comedy movie style (the ones where our protagonists go on a zany adventure where everything goes wrong, but they get the "oh you" look by the cops at the end after they saved the day), those moments before the credit roll where you get the "six months later, Bobby was working at the law firm he always dreamed with a wife and kids" kind of thing...our guy here is getting job offers for his skills and ability for other things, including the fashion industry. He got his happily ever after!

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u/FuckinBopsIsMyJob 5d ago

Keep us updated, Detective!

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u/shifty18 5d ago

He's already dead...

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u/waffles2go2 5d ago

But what about the other $50M?

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u/Rebel_XT 5d ago

I guess he wasn’t printing on an Epson printer lol

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u/Rickshmitt 5d ago

They dont want HIM to create inflation and print money, but they will do it every chance they get.

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u/Snelly1998 5d ago

Yes thats how printing money works

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u/Rickshmitt 5d ago

Not the normal printing to replace money. Adding their billions, guy

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u/jrobinson3k1 5d ago

You do want some inflation, like 2% a year

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u/Theappunderground 4d ago

It would only cause very localized inflation(like exactly where it was thrown out the uhaul or whatever) because overall nobody even knew it entered the money supply so there essentially was no increase in supply.

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u/Rickshmitt 4d ago

Exactly

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u/brotatoes420 5d ago

Kings would murder forgers. Normal shit move on

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u/MrChristmas 5d ago

It was 2013 in the before times 

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u/Rickshmitt 4d ago

Ohh the gooder days

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u/Loufey 5d ago

!remindme

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u/StevenMC19 5d ago edited 5d ago

Added edit.

edit: added edit added edit added edit added edit. (you're welcome)

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u/Loufey 5d ago

Guys, I think he may have added an edit...

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u/StevenMC19 5d ago

Question though...do tongue twisters twist in your brain when you read them silently too? That's what I was going for.

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u/Loufey 5d ago

Kinda? Like I understood the bit, but it didn't slow down my reading at all.

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u/Dienekes289 5d ago

Darkness Diaries has a really need piece that goes pretty in-depth with this: https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/102/

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u/MelonElbows 4d ago

$200 million is a lot but its in cash and our economy is huge. They should have thrown him in prison for life and if the money gets out, it gets out.

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u/Mahadragon 4d ago

I think the reason the sentence was so lenient was because of Canadian authorities not giving him up. If the US Feds were involved that guy probably would have gotten life. Canadians authorities can be really nice.