In Focus: Rockland

Funny money

December

Remember the guy who paid his $200 bail with two fresh and crisp $100 counterfeit bills? That happened earlier this month in Clarkstown.

Well, he was just a sign of things to come. USA Today reports that counterfeiting has gone mainstream.

I was in Chinatown this week and a clerk was saying that all the stores weren’t accepting $100 bills because there had been many turning up counterfeit. Last week’s police blotter in The Journal News reported that security personnel at the Kmart department store at the Crossroads Shopping Center in Greeburgh reported receiving 38 counterfeit $10 bills, all on one Sunday.

Creative solution for tough times? Nah, just plain old illegal.

This entry was posted on Monday, December 29th, 2008 at 4:50 pm by Nancy Cutler.
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