“After quitting his job, Frank Bourassa (lef) started printing the 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.”
by Worth-Boysenberry-93
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“Bourassa’s story is one of the boldest and most technically sophisticated counterfeiting schemes in modern history. A former businessman from Quebec, Bourassa became frustrated with his work life and made an astonishing pivot.
He decided to counterfeit U.S. currency not with crude reproductions but with bills so meticulously engineered that federal investigators later said they were among the most convincing fakes ever discovered. Bourassa sourced the exact cotton-linen blend used in genuine U.S. dollars, studied ink compositions, and replicated security features with near-perfect accuracy.
Between 2007 and 2012, he produced an estimated $250 million in high-quality counterfeit $20 bills, distributing them globally. When authorities finally traced the operation back to him, Bourassa was arrested and faced an enormous prison sentence. But he leveraged the one thing law enforcement wanted most the remaining counterfeit stock. He revealed the location of about $200 million worth of fake notes he still had hidden, a find that prevented the bills from entering circulation.
In an extraordinary legal outcome, Bourassa struck a deal with authorities. Because he surrendered the remaining notes and cooperated fully, he served only six weeks in prison a remarkably light sentence for one of the largest counterfeiting operations ever uncovered.
Added fact: Bourassa’s counterfeit bills were so realistic that U.S.
Secret Service agents initially suspected they were dealing with an inside job from someone who had access to official printing materials.”
From historyfeels on IG
And more can be read [here](https://news.sky.com/story/money-for-nothing-the-story-of-the-biggest-counterfeiter-in-us-history-11942377) (sky news)
Only 6 weeks in prison, and a $200M dollar fine
Catch me if you can 2.0
**Judge** : 60 Years.
**Frank :** Wait, I have $200M stashed somewhere. I can tell you where.
**Judge** : Excellent. $100M stashed somewhere? 6 weeks then it is.
Hasn’t this been posted twice already this week?
6 weeks? absolutely worth it
Is this the dude from Alaska that used phone book paper after realizing it didn’t reaxt to the counterfeit pens most businesses use to check bills?? And I tried it he’s right phone book paper passes the pen test
Dude looks like a counterfeit Jim Jefferies.
Let’s not repeat the “money total constantly lowering as it exchanges hands” joke everyone.
he didnt play his cards right
Lef
Was it luck, boss move or a miracle from God
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX8dcmXj0Uo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX8dcmXj0Uo)
he kept 50m, and was fined 1,500 ..
Even fake rich get off easy.
If you owe the bank a million dollars, the *bank* owns *you*. If you owe the bank a hundred million dollars, *you* own the *bank*.
Apparently this literally holds true for the federal criminal code!
Doesn’t North Korea produce counterfeit bills as well?
It’s an Art 🖼️ form I met the best washer the secret service ever caught his bills 💵 some of the best I seen ever .
What was this secret technique?
Any relation to Ken Griffin?
There is zero chance he’d get 60 years in prison in Canada
Should have hired him to work in anti-counterfeit dept
Counterfeiters never know when to quit.
Money doesn’t happiness but it sure as hell will buy you freedom lol
Getting greedy. If he had left it at $10M, he probably wouldn’t have been caught
ist a very very interesting story. Awesome dude, al
lot of knowledge and balls of steal 🫶🏻
Literally the same post with almost identical comments lmao
I like how you put (left) as if the other two people in the photo aren’t wearing police uniforms 😂
the Darknet Diaries podcast has a pretty good episode on this guy with him being interviewed during it – Episode “Money Maker”
Dark Web Diaries did a podcast with this guy. It was super interesting.
They probably use recovered counterfeit for undercover operations and foreign operations
He alluded to the fact he still has a couple million stashed somewhere.