Bogus Bills Bring Strict Security

Berry isn't at liberty to discuss specific details of how these men were exposed, but he did note that security technology embedded in the copier ultimately tripped up the counterfeiters. They were able to circumvent the first layers of security, but not all.

Berry says the Secret Service referred to the phony $20 bills as fair imitations, but Berry notes that the Service sees the finest, press-manufactured counterfeits so its standards are pretty high. A color copier simply can't do the same quality, detailed job as a press, but Berry maintains the average person would have thought the bills produced on Columbia's copier were perfectly acceptable.