Hollis Forteau, 38, was the ringleader of a group that traveled to Virginia in December 2019 and January 2020 to get real money in exchange for counterfeit currency.
Jeff Goldman | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Hollis Forteau, 38, was the ringleader of a group that traveled to Virginia in December 2019 and January 2020 to get real money using counterfeit currency, thesaid Monday in announcing his sentencing. Forteau, of Willingboro, made the $100 counterfeit notes by printing the images of genuine $100 bills onto $1 bills that he had bleached, or “washed,” according to charging documents. According to prosecutors, Forteau used $1 bills “because the $100 counterfeit notes would feel genuine to the touch and could still appear genuine if store employees marked them with a counterfeit detection pen.”Court papers note Forteau traveled with a printer and laptop to make the fake cash.
Forteau was caught after the U.S. Secret Service found a video of him on a public social media account that showed him in a hotel room throwing $1 bills in the air with a printer visible in the background.
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