Subject:

Counterfeiting

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    The Likely Conspiracies Behind The Katy ISD Counterfeit Ring

    Various news outlets reported Wednesday that the Katy Independent School District received 10 reports of counterfeit bills passed in school cafeterias in the past couple of months. These include several high schools and an elementary school.Steve Stanford, district spokesperson for KISD, tells Hair ... More >>

  • News

    March 11, 1999

    River Oaks Rip-offs

    With counterfeit goods, there's a wealth of opportunity

  • Film

    March 6, 2008

    Blood Money: The Counterfeiters

    A morally ambiguous Holocaust tale of survival and collusion

  • Calendar

    September 20, 2007

    “Lupin the III: The Castle of Cagliostro”

    Hayao Miyazaki’s first anime feature film follows a thief who boosts a bogus bounty

  • News

    March 21, 1996

    The Cheap Secrets of Harwin

    Beyond the Galleria, beyond Target - and sometimes beyond the law - lies Houston's last untamed wilderness of shopping

  • Calendar

    February 12, 2004

    Chocolove

    The Houston Museum of Natural Science delves into the candy of love on Valentine's Day

  • News

    September 17, 2009

    Spy Story

    Con man or super spook — either way, Roland Carnaby wasn't supposed to meet his death on a Houston highway in a high-speed chase with the cops.

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    An Overnight Delivery -- Of Justice

    ​Windjammer Street is a fairly innocuous road out in the vast westside suburbs. Who knew one of those homes was hiding a huge counterfeiting operation?The feds.The intercepted a package from Nigeria at a DHL hub in Kentucky addressed to a Eddie Wrobiv on Windjammer here in Houston. Since the packa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    Dumb Counterfeiters Allegedly Strike Again: Garbage Men Crack Montgomery County Case

    Connie Gulley (styling by Joe Dirt)​Counterfeiting money is a real art. It's not easy reproducing all those watermarks, holograms, and color-changing inks, but some -- the real artists of the form, manage to do so.Others fail humorously.From the looks of it, you'd have to say that Montgomery Co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    Synaca Thomas and Brittany Jordan: Couple Take $5 Bills and Turn Them into a Half-Million Worth of $100 Bills

    Could that be a $5 bill?​A husband-wife team has been indicted for counterfeiting after allegedly spending up to $500,000 in fake $100 bills that started out as $5 bills. Synaca Thomas, 34, and his wife Brittany Jordan, 25, of Cypress, passed the bills at Houston-area businesses for two years ... More >>

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