Gender
The alleged offenders of counterfeiting stories reported by the Times were overwhelmingly male. Although gender was not brought up in every issue, men were the suspected criminals in 85% of these cases.
Looking deeper at the four cases that involved female offenders brings up some intriguing data, as three of them were arrested together with their husbands. This includes the aforementioned “counterfeiting queen” case, an arrest in Pittsburgh in which police claimed that one Giancianto de Carrio was passing around fake coins that his wife was minting in their home, and the bust of gigantic New York counterfeiting ring that happened after a husband and wife were found with several false $20 bills. The last of the four was a group of three women (two of them being a mother and daughter) that were running a mint in Houston, Texas. However, their capture was also in connection with another counterfeiting case, in which one of their husbands was involved.
Victims were not a focal point in these articles, as the primary victim of minting counterfeits is the federal government. Because of this, the gender of any victims was not listed
