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What is the normal standard regular typical ordinary punishment for passing a coutnerfeit $20 bill? What SHOULD IT BE?

I know it doesn't rise to the level of being murdered.

That is the Minneapolis version I guess else why would the murderer and and three aiders and abettors have sunk to that? Was it done before or was that the first time? I dunno. I expect it happened before. Not necessarily exactly that way but there are other ways to "murder" and have the vic end up dead. Those who kill/murder are extremely RESOURCEFUL you see.

Posted - June 4, 2020
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  • 6023
    When I worked retail, we had a few counterfeit bills show up.
    We were in a tourist town, and it usually happened during tourist season.

    We just called the regular police number - not 911.

    We also informed the customer we suspected the bill was counterfeit, and were going to keep it for the police.
    The customer could stay or leave.  They were given the choice of leaving their contact information, in case the bill was legit and they could get it back.  If they left without contact information, we wrote down their license plate and vehicle description.

    Usually it was someone we didn't know ... though rarely it was a known customer, who had gotten the bill at their store.
      June 4, 2020 7:00 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    Thank you for sharing your first-person experience with it Walt. I worked for a couple who owned 7 McDonald's Restaurants and the employees there who dealt directly with the customers in taking the cash all had special pens to mark the bills with. All $20 bills were marked. I don't know what a bogus marked one looked like because I never saw one. I worked in the office. Are $20 bills the most common denomination counterfeited? I wonder what the punishment for passing one KNOWINGLY would be and how many of us unknowingly get them and use them to pay for things? How could you prove you did not know? Are they OBVIOUSLY fake? :) Could you spot one right away if it were given to you? This post was edited by RosieG at June 4, 2020 7:19 AM MDT
      June 4, 2020 7:09 AM MDT
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  • 13277
    I doubt anyone would disagree with you. I received a fake $20 bill at a supermarket once many years ago, and when I brought it back, they exchanged it with no questions asked. Even though I couldn't prove that I got it there, there seemingly was no suspicion of wrongdoing on my part, perhaps because I am caucasian.
      June 4, 2020 7:24 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    I walked past one laying on the pavement and a police man clearly saw me and  yet did nothing Rosie....  :( 
      June 4, 2020 7:54 AM MDT
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  • 19937

    The secret service and U.S. Treasury offer these suggestions:

    • Hold a bill up to a light and look for a holograph of the face image on the bill. Both images should match. If the $100 bill has been bleached, the hologram will display an image of Abraham Lincoln, who appears on the $5 bills, instead of Benjamin Franklin.
    • Looking at the bill through a light will also reveal a thin vertical strip containing text that spells out the bill’s denomination.
    • Color-shifting ink: If you hold the new series bill (except the $5 note) and tilt it back and forth, please observe the numeral in the lower right hand corner as its color shifts from green to black and back.
    • Watermark: Hold the bill up to a light to view the watermark in an unprinted space to the right of the portrait. The watermark can be seen from both sides of the bill since it is not printed on the bill but is imbedded in the paper.
    • Security Thread: Hold he bill a light to view the security thread. You will see a thin imbedded strip running from top to bottom on the face of a banknote. In the $10 and $50 the security strip is located to the right of the portrait, and in the $5, $20 and $100, it is located just to the left of the portrait.
    • Ultraviolet Glow: If the bill is held up to an ultraviolet light, the $5 bill glows blue; the $10 bill glows orange, the $20 bill glows green, the $50 bill glows yellow, and the $100 bill glows red – if they are authentic!
    • Microprinting: There are minute microprinting on the security threads: the $5 bill has “USA FIVE” written on the thread; the $10 bill has “USA TEN” written on the thread; the $20 bill has “USA TWENTY” written on the thread; the $50 bill has “USA 50” written on the thread; and the $100 bill has the words “USA 100” written on the security thread. Microprinting can be found around the portrait as well as on the security threads.
    • Fine Line Printing Patterns: Very fine lines have been added behind the portrait and on the reverse side scene to make it harder to reproduce.
    • Comparison: Compare the feel and texture of the paper with other bills you know are authentic.
      June 4, 2020 12:57 PM MDT
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