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Danny Jones Podcast

#369 - Printing $10M In Fake Cash, Satan’s Disciples & Chicago Gang Wars | Art Williams Jr

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones

Documentary, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 215 minutes

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Watch every episode ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones 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. SPONSORS https://stopboxusa.com/danny - Use code DANNY & get 10% off firearm security redesigned! https://shopify.com/dannyjones - Sign up for your $1 dollar trial today. https://capl.onelink.me/vFut/zralgyl0 - Download Cash App Today. https://rhonutrition.com - Use code DANNY for 20% off sitewide. https://whiterabbitenergy.com/?ref=DJP - Use code DJP for 20% off EPISODE LINKS https://artistreplete.com/collections/arthur-j-williams-jr https://www.instagram.com/arthurjwilliamsjr FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/dannyjones https://twitter.com/jonesdanny 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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you are the world's number one most notorious money counterfeiter. I was, yeah, yeah, I was. Arthur J. W. You were, not anymore. I still make money, but just on

1:26.0

canvas, you know. And, but no, I, I was known to be the first to break the $196.00 note.

1:34.3

So, yeah, so it's when they came out with all the new security features, like the watermark

1:38.3

and the strip and marking with the pen.

1:41.3

And so, but my story started before that, you know i i grew up on south side of chicago

1:47.4

uh in the projects with single mom um she she dealt with mental illness uh bipolar schizophrenia all that

1:55.9

she and it was real spiritual her her mental illness in the sense that you know and, and I learned because I've been around a lot, it was just, she would see demons and angels.

2:05.7

She would talk to stuff.

2:06.8

And she would see things that other people didn't see, you know.

2:09.7

And it would drive her into, you know, into the hospital pretty much almost once a year, you know.

2:19.3

I've seen my mom run out the house butt naked screaming God's coming back you know like old were you when this happened

2:23.8

I was like 11 yeah no I mean the mental illness was intense with my mom you know one time she

2:32.2

packed the car up and drove to New York saying that she was meeting

2:36.5

Jesus.

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I think I was about 10 then.

2:40.0

Yeah.

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