counterfeiting money, and matthews at the time was trying to recruit additional members. one of those members was an individual he knew from the national alliance which the name of thomas martinez. martinez lived in the philadelphia area and provided with counterfeit u.s. currency. he was instructed by matthews and others in the order to take those bills a and to pass them. when he did, he got caught. he was paid a visit by the secret service and arrested. after they had their initial interview with martinez, they recognized this was something bigger than this few bills of counterfit that had been fis pa. so they called the fbi. they said, i ve got a guy here in philadelphia arrested for counterfeiting, do you want to talk to him? damn right we want to talk to