United States v. James J. Schreckengost

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

James Schreckengost removed the ink from genuine $5 bills with a chemical solution and used-an inkjet printer to produce facsimiles of $100 bills on the blank sheets. These fakes had the feel of currency and could pass some tests employed to identify genuine bills. For example, currency paper has colored threads, a security strip, and a watermark. See the Secret Service’s description of these and other features at http://www.secretservice.gov/ money-design-featuresl990. shtml. Some features of real currency paper depend on the denomination: each security strip…