Book Forgery Investigator Reveals More

By KEVIN NELSON February 24, 2010 Al Herzog, the United States Postal Inspector mainly responsible for busting book forger Forrest Smith, said that one of the things that made Smith stand out to him was the “boisterous” fake ID he used on eBay. “When I was told about the two eBay user ID’s Smith was [...]

Literary Forger Forrest Smith Sentenced

The painful cost of forgery—to its victims as well as its perpetrators—became evident again last week when a Pennsylvania judge sentenced forger Forrest Smith to 33 months in prison and ordered him to pay $120,000 to the people he ripped off in his scam. Smith, 48, of Reading, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia, had been free on [...]

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