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The person handing them out, passing the fake bills off as real money to the homeless(even as a donation) is the illegal thing. Spending a counterfeit bill without having known it was fake is not illegal in the US afaik, but you can still be arrested for it because the police don't have to believe that you didn't know.
George Floyd was executed by police for using a suspected counterfeit bill.
That's ridiculous. He was executed for being black. The counterfeit bill was just the excuse.
I mean it isn't counterfeit. Counterfeit is making a bill yourself that looks exactly like an actual bill. These specifically state they aren't real.
I didn't know about giving it out as a donation though.
The quality of the item is only a consideration if its unreasonable for a regular person to mistake it for real (a good example is bills printed in red). If someone could mistake it for genuine and you're falsely presenting it as genuine - then you've got fraud.
Counterfeit is something that looks close enough that someone could believe it's something it isn't.
Hollywood money has to look real at a distance, the fact it says "not legal tender" in small print doesn't make it not possible to be used as a counterfeit. If it's crumpled or folded up, the obvious tells that it's fake might be hidden. A person with poor eyesight or numb fingers can't sense it well. When mixed in a pile of change and 1 dollar bills it can be missed.
Someone intentionally donating movie money to the homeless is using those bills as counterfeit bills. And that person then attempting to buy something with it is passing counterfeit currency, knowingly or not.