Word: counterfeited
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...indicted on phony charges so they could nab judges and others who took bribes to "fix" their cases. In California, Treasury agents obligingly offered to supply suspects with such essentials as paper and ink, then proudly announced arrests growing out of one of the largest hauls of counterfeit money in history...
...than in 1972. Dozens of reporters on the liquid late-night beat and even some bona fide guests could not gain entry to a supper sponsored by Rolling Stone magazine because of unexpected crowds of gate crashers. The problem was that veteran Prankster Dick Tuck had printed thousands of counterfeit invitations in Reliable Source, an irreverent daily tabloid that he published during the convention...
...phony radicalism of the American intellectual. It's too bad, because when he was on the same case a few years back, with a tremendously telling satire of Leonard Bernstein's party for the Black Panthers, Wolfe convinced everyone that Lennie and his East Side pals were counterfeit radicals and really, assholes. Now that Wolfe writes from his own vantage point, purely, without the benefit of foils like those partygoers, he comes off as a strangely fashionable reactionary and, why mince words?, an asshole in his own right...
Hickey and another soldier, Micah Lynch, were seized June 14 on a charge of trying to pass counterfeit money. In jail, they were heard boasting that they had secretly enlisted with the British and that hundreds of other Continental soldiers had done the same...
...should come as no surprise that inflation has also hit those who manufacture phony money. In 1966 the average take after passing a counterfeit bill was $14.30. Now the counterfeiters are making more bills of larger denominations. The average amount ripped off last year reached $23.18, a jump of 62%. The Consumer Price Index rise since 1966 was almost exactly the same. Because big bills do not mean so much these days, a Secret Service counterfeiting specialist concedes, "you can change a $100 bill more easily now." Trouble is, they buy less-just like real dollars...