01980cam a2200337 a 4500 102302 20230410115732.0 090303s2009 nyu 000 0beng 2009009407 (OCoLC)ocn268795218 DLC DLC BTCTA YDXCP C#P BWX BUR VP@ CDX CQU MOF UKM GBB028932 bnb 015490495 Uk 9781592404469 1592404464 NZ1 12910185 (OCoLC)268795218 364.1/334092 B 22 HG335 K41a 2009 Kersten, Jason. The art of making money : the story of a master counterfeiter / Jason Kersten. New York : Gotham Books, c2009. 292 p. ; 24 cm. Art Williams' comfortable middle-class boyhood was shattered when, in short order, his father abandoned the family, his bipolar mother lost her wits, and Williams found himself living in one of Chicago's worst housing projects. He took to crime, starting with petty theft before graduating to robbing drug dealers. Eventually a man nicknamed "DaVinci" taught him the centuries-old art of counterfeiting. After a stint in jail, Williams emerged to discover that the Treasury Department had issued the most secure hundred-dollar bill ever created: the 1996 New Note. Williams spent months arriving at a bill so perfect that even law enforcement had difficulty distinguishing it from the real thing. He went on to print millions in counterfeit bills, selling them to criminal organizations and using them to fund cross-country spending sprees. Still unsatisfied, he went off in search of his long-lost father, setting in motion a chain of betrayals that would be his undoing.--From publisher description. Williams, Art, 1972- Counterfeiters Biography. Counterfeits and counterfeiting. lcc bk FHM C0 DRFGD 46974 46974 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2023-04-10 3 0 HG335 K41a 2009 00000095962 2018-10-24 00:00:00 1 2018-10-24 bk