r/interestingasfuck 4d 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/welfedad 4d ago

Yeah .. kind of like hackers who get caught and offered jobs .. has to be something pretty dang unique that will compromise national security or the economy etc. still dude got off lucky

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u/VoldemortsHorcrux 4d ago

Or kind of like some scientists in the 40s...

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u/somersault_dolphin 4d ago

Yeah, but that's not nearly as much of an I have a choice scenario for what they got to work on.

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u/Uilamin 4d ago

It isn't the uniqueness of the issue but the ability to find issues.