CHICAGO (CBS) -- Counterfeit cash, printing for the mob and redemption might sound like a movie, but it's real life for a Chicago man who is now making his mark in the world as an artist. It's the ...

BRIDGEPORT, Ill. (CNN) — A former master counterfeiter now wants to be know as a master artist after turning his life around. Arthur Williams opened a gallery to display his paintings in his hometown ...

The 18-year-old son of master counterfeiter Art Williams Jr., whose life is chronicled in a new book "The Art of Making Money," has been arrested on charges of passing fake $100 bills. Arthur Williams ...

Publisher Gotham Books describes Jason Kersten's new biography of master counterfeiter Art Williams as a true story about a talented crook "who blew through millions of dollars, outwitted government ...

Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...

A young smalltime crook with a meticulous eye for artistic detail and an addiction to the thrill of crime crafts millions in high-quality phony bills in Kersten’s account of counterfeiter Art Williams ...

When the Federal Reserve Bank debuted a redesigned $100 bill in 1996, it was trumpeted as the most high-tech, counterfeit-proof currency to date. It took Art Williams four months to produce a ...