No way an ordinary JOEcitizen, working 40hous a week, has access to that kind of paper product information on printing machines or anywhere near close to that kind of opertion.
Let alone the funds to do it on such short notice.
He was either set up to run the operation (by bigger fish in the sea), it's a fake story to cover for the bogus bils printed by the real folk, or the whole thing is just a flat out lie and never happened.