| Woman opens bank account with forged $1 million note |
A Pennsylvanian woman was allowed to open a bank account with a single forged $1 million note.
The bank clerk in Harrisburg did not raise any questions when Dorothy Livingston opened the account.
The largest denomination of note still being printed in the US is $100.
Ms Livingston allegedly later withdrew some of the money and transferred it to her husband's account. She has been charged with 16 counts of theft by deception.
The 24-year-old opened the account at the First National Bank of Newport on July 15, police say.
She is being held on $25,000 (about £17,000) bail.
The largest note ever printed in the US was a $100,000 note.
It existed for about three weeks in the 1930s, when it was used to transfer funds between Federal Reserve banks. It was never publicly circulated.
Story filed: 14:40 Thursday 20th September 2001
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