Emerich Juettner: The One Dollar Counterfeiter

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Emerich Juettner, a poor immigrant, printed crude counterfeit one-dollar bills for nearly a decade using simple techniques.
His fake notes were low-quality but he exploited the fact that people rarely inspect small-denomination bills closely.
Juettner operated on a small scale, releasing only a few bills at a time, which circulated quietly in New York.
The Secret Service investigated for 10 years under case number 880, making it their largest counterfeit investigation.
He was caught in 1948 after schoolboys found his engraving plates, and he admitted to counterfeiting but claimed no one lost more than $1.
Juettner became a folk hero, received a light sentence, and later earned money from the Hollywood film 'Mister 880' about his story.

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