Bribing a politician today with ONE DOLLAR is unheard of, it usually takes much, much more!

Actually, it is against the law to deface currency. Having said that, I don't know of a single case ever taken to court. The law states:

"Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both."

THE.....with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued....PART may be why so few are prosecuted, intent is hard to prove and usually the amount involved is very small.

Hope this answers your question~