After quitting his job, Frank Bourassa decided to literally print money. His notes were so good that police said they were barely detectable to the naked eye. Caught in 2012, he faced up to 60 years until he revealed he still had $200M hidden. He handed it over and only served 6 weeks in prison.


**Judge** : 60 Years.
**Frank :** Wait, I have 200M stashed somewhere. I can tell you where.
**Judge** : Excellent, 6 weeks then it is.

So he bought his freedom with fake money

Imagine if he were an immigrant, or person of colour, or both. What a fucking joke of a penalty.

If I had nickel for each conman named Frank, I’d have two which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice

“That’s right me old black-hearted, jackanape, bounty hunter from the devil’s lavatory! I’ve been forging money. No more living on the edge of society for us, no more tick, no more nicking! No more… running into off-licences and seeing how much we can drink before the police arrive.”

If the punishment for a crime is a fine, or can be bribed out of, then those crimes are not illegal, they are simply legal for the right price

Has anyone got a good inkjet printer? 😘

He actually had $220M hidden

Noted: once you get good at it and already printed a lot of money, you automatically get an out of jail card because the fear of this money going into circulation is bigger than you serving your real sentence

60 years down to just 6 weeks all because he gave police $200mil in counterfeit money.

That is oddly suspicious…

My guess, without looking it up, is that the deal probably included giving up his methods and any machinery he used which is much more valuable to the government is reducing the risk of future counterfeiting by himself or any others.

This is actually pretty common with really skilled counterfeiters I have heard, it’s basically like how governments give deals to black hat hackers for their knowledge and skill.

Sometimes it is less valuable to make an example of a man like Frank than it is to acquire everything that made them successful and stop untold numbers of people from doing the same thing but on an even larger scale.

Actually has $300 million stashed somewhere….

Early 2000’s we got our first top tier laser printer.

I copied a one dollar bill just to test the quality and by God, it was incredible! On the right quality paper it would’ve easily passed for real.

Not going to lie. I sat there looking at it for a good minute, my mind racing with possibility.

Then I cut that copy in to a dozen pieces and threw it away like it was a contract with the devil himself.

There’s been a few times in my life where I’ve literally felt the struggle between right and wrong inside myself and that was one of them.

Something in me knew though that I would’ve eventually ended up in prison. No doubt. Once it worked the first time I never would’ve stopped.

Catch me if you can 

I appreciate that the article is very detailed.

Check out this podcast where he gets interviewed: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/102/

Catch me if you can

My guess they wanted to know who was the company making him the paper her printed on

Whats crazy is the guy is Canadian and did this in Quebec.