A St. Lucie, Florida, man said the fake $20 bills officials found in his house were for a music video he was making to protest Andrew Jackson’s image on the real bills. But the judge didn’t buy it and sentenced Ronald Jensen to 18 months in prison, followed by five years of probation. Jensen will get credit for the 406 days he’s already spent behind bars. Detectives who raided Jensen’s apartment in June 2009 found a total of $1,680 in counterfeit bills, including burnt $20 bills in the toilet. Jensen, who said he is of Cherokee descent, was making a video to show the bill bearing Jackson’s portrait being burned and flushed to protest his signing of the Indian Removal Act in 1830. The law allowed the government to remove Cherokees and other Indian tribes from the southeastern U.S. to Oklahoma on what became known as the “Trail of Tears.”
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