It's So Easy It's A Crime
October, 1977
On a late Sunday afternoon in October 1974, special agent Robert Powis, in charge of the Los Angeles office of the United States Secret Service, announced on the local Eyewitness News that, "just a few hours ago," his agents, "acting on a tip," had arrested four men with $8,300,000 worth of counterfeit $100 bills that had just been printed. It was then, as Powis accurately stated, "the largest seizure of counterfeit money in American history." And, he went on, "...
