Woman admits making fake $100 bills by bleaching $1 bills, using them in Montana

[TexasTowelie]

A California woman admitted federal charges accusing her of making fake $100 bills and passing about $45,000 of the counterfeit money throughout Montana.

Misty Nicole Marcum, 38, of Bakersfield, California, pleaded guilty to one count of counterfeiting as part of a plea deal during a hearing on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Billings. A second charge is to be dismissed at sentencing.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Colin Rubich said Marcum moved to Montana in 2015 and the scheme ran from about May 2015 to June 2016.

Marcum counterfeited $100 bills by washing and reprinting $1 bills, using solvents, bleach and printers, Rubich said. A witness told law enforcement that Marcum would ask the witness to buy her supplies for bleaching legitimate bills and that she was “constantly asking for $1 bills,” he said.

Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/crime/woman-admits-making-fake-bills-by-bleaching-bills-using-them/article_1a41640b-c7fd-5fe8-a269-8fc8faafaa1e.html

[TheDebbieDee]

1. I saw a plot similar to this on Castle several years ago...

[zipplewrath]

2. Pretty common

It's one of the myriad of reasons they buried special strips in the larger denominations that indicate their value. You can't bleach them, much less counterfeit them.