Word: counterfeiter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...budget by $150 million, partly to provide more agents to patrol the Mexican-American border. Reagan also proposes to fine businesses that employ four or more people up to $1,000 for each illegal alien they hire. Although Reagan has rejected Attorney General Smith's proposal for a counterfeit-proof Social Security card, the Administration will recommend that an alien job seeker must produce two forms of identification for employers and must sign a form swearing that he is in the U.S. legally...
...right to work in the U.S. Though the panel correctly pointed out that a Social Security card - the proof of citizenship most often asked for by prospective employers - is laughably easy to forge, the commission could not agree on whether the new system should consist of a "counterfeit-resistant" Social Security card or a new kind of identification card altogether. Some opponents fear that any sort of ID would be not only a nightmare to administer but, more important, too totalitarian for most Americans to tolerate. Simpson, for one, remains undaunted. Says he: "If there is nothing else...
Founded in 1865 to combat the rising tide of counterfeit "greenbacks" then flooding the country, the agency now numbers some 1,500 special agents, up from 389 at the time of Kennedy's assassination. Once selected, a recruit is dispatched to offices around the country to help track down counterfeiters and pursue stolen or forged Government checks and bonds. Only superior agents are eventually picked to serve in the protection service, which is responsible for guarding not only the President, the Vice President and their families, but also presidential candidates and former Presidents...
...Allentown, Pa., five teen-agers have been charged with forgery in a scheme involving hundreds of counterfeit $1 and $5 bills that were printed in their high school shops. The extralegal, extra-credit work began when a junior at William Allen High School fashioned his aunt a novel Christmas gift: a "money tree," fluttering with $5 bills the boy had run off on the school's press. The boy's uncle promptly destroyed the present. But some of the artful student's classmates swiped hundreds of the spurious notes...
...When the counterfeit currencies began appearing in local retail stores and restaurants-at least 36 fake bills were spent in all-somebody called the cops. (Finally even the U.S. Secret Service joined the investigation.) Allentown police arrested the bill passers-but not the two high school boys who had created the bogus scrip-and turned their cases over to juvenile authorities. The police at least gave the budding young printers good marks for their technically criminal craft. Said Lieut. Ronald Neimeyer: "The bills looked good. The quality and the color were not great, but they were absolutely perfect in every...