Word: counterfeits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rash of counterfeit bills has surfaced in the Greater Boston area, according to Thomas C. Smith of the Boston Secret Service office, which handles all matters relating to counterfeit currency...
...security official at the Harvard Trust Company said tellers there have received counterfeit bills of various denominations in the past few weeks. He also said two local restaurateurs gave the company similar descriptions of a man passing counterfeit fifties, leading to the apprehension of a suspect. A Cambridge Trust Company security official said his company has not seen any counterfeit bills since several depositors unwittingly brought in counterfeit tens about a month...
...other area businesses checked, only the Harvard House of Pizza reported receiving counterfeit bills lately. Robert Burns of the Coop security office said the Coop has had no recent problems with counterfeit money...
Morgan, 36, thus became the fourth law-enforcement official in the Nixon Administration to be charged with a crime. As an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, he had supervised the policing of counterfeit, customs, firearms and alcohol laws. The former Arizona lawyer faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine...
...dammit, I guess Watson didn't exist or at least didn't write this adventure. No, this book must have been written by Nicholas Meyer after all and although it is a dastardly counterfeit--with lots of spurious biographical information on Dr. John Hamish Watson--Meyer has the good sense to give himself away...