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
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...