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Counterfeiter Sentenced To 27 Months Prison
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) -- A southwestern Illinois man accused of using a printer to turn bleached $5 bills into $100 bills has been ordered to spend two years and three months in federal prison.

A U.S. District Court judge in East St. Louis also fined 25-year-old Raphael Solomon of Chester $1,000 and ordered him to pay $1,500 in restitution.

Solomon pleaded guilty in November to one count of manufacturing counterfeit currency.

Authorities say Solomon bought a printer in December 2009 and used it to make the bogus $100 bills he then passed in various Randolph County-area stores.

The felony charge had carried a possible 20 years in prison and $250,000 in fines.

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