Arrest, extradition and prison time

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At age 15, Arthur Williams Jr. (Art) was taught the secrets of money counterfeiting by his mother’s boyfriend. What started as a skill quickly turned into a global operation and continued to print over $10 million in fake money, earning the reputation as the world’s most notorious counterfeiter. This is the insane true story of a teenager who built a million dollar empire of designing fake money.

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OUTLINE

00:00 - Counterfeiting the 1996 $100 bill

02:20 - The Satan Disciples of Chicago

04:37 - Gang politics in county jail

07:20 - Worst prison punishment

09:47 - What happened to Art's dad

14:25 - How Art started counterfeiting

16:45 - How the banks take old bills out of circulation

21:28 - Working for "da Vinci"

31:28 - How counterfeit money is made

37:43 - The paper used for counterfeit money

43:38 - The $100 bill that can't be counterfeit

46:20 - Best paper for fake money

50:04 - Why Art BURNED his money

51:21 - Using superglue to remove fingerprints

57:06 - Helping others with counterfeit money

01:02:42 - How to spend fake money

01:08:16 - Printing $250k per week

01:10:26 - getting shot by a rival gang

01:16:52 - Scalise & the Marlborough diamond robbery

01:23:52 - Donating to kids with fake money

01:30:15 - When Art reunited with his dad

01:37:08 - Art's dad's secret underground grow room

01:43:16 - Meeting the president of the Hell's Angels

01:45:38 - How Art got caught

01:53:12 - The day Art got released from prison

01:59:05 - Counterfeiting is harder to quit than heroin

02:01:43 - Cashless society & robot police

02:08:54 - Thomas Jefferson's warning about revolution

02:16:14 - America's divide was predicted 30 years ago

02:21:27 - How to fix the worst parts of the country

02:30:42 - How Art escaped poverty

02:32:37 - Why universal basic income won't work

02:36:22 - Norway's $250k birthright

02:40:26 - International prisons vs. American prisons

02:44:48 - Trying to counterfeit the Euro

02:50:30 - Speaking to a room of homeland security agents

02:56:26 - The day Art got arrested for his son's crime

03:05:29 - The start of Art's art career

03:08:09 - Working with Arnold Schwarzenegger's charity

03:12:28 - Art's $100 bill cowboy hat

03:18:59 - Art's new projects

03:22:46 - Art's newest gallery

03:26:07 - Top secret art supplies

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