Word: counterfeiting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...article added that "greedy fakers were helped by the publication of Van Gogh's diaries, in which they could read the artist's descriptions of work-in-progress which they could then counterfeit...
...high-wheeling art dealer whose star clientele included Jack Nicholson; on 38 counts of mail and wire fraud; in Waterville Valley, N.H. A connoisseur of turn-of-the-century artwork, Volpe allegedly swindled his clients out of more than $2.5 million by using such tactics as passing off counterfeit works and secretly selling art that was on consignment...
...colleagues managed to create a frisky lamb named Dolly (with apologies to Ms. Parton), scoring an advance in reproductive technology as unsettling as it was startling. Unlike offspring produced in the usual fashion, Dolly does not merely take after her biological mother. She is a carbon copy, a laboratory counterfeit so exact that she is in essence her mother's identical twin...
Secret-Service agents in New York City usually seize about $50,000 worth of counterfeit bills a week, but not even these seen-it-all G-persons had ever eyed any money as funny as the $20 bills that turned up last summer in local bars and restaurants. Agents traced the bills to a print shop in the basement of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and last month arrested four suspects, including three Columbia dropouts (ahem, they were not journalism students). According to the agents, the suspects taped real 20s to sheets of paper and fed them into...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "International counterfeiting funds terrorism. Counterfeit currency is the currency of choice for terrorists. It makes their activities less traceable. It lowers their cost of doing mischief...