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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
So legendary were his skills that in the late 1970s he was recruited by the FBI to combat art thieves and counterfeiters. But the trail quickly led to even bigger targets. His legendary sting operation, Abscam, caught eight corrupt congressmen and senators. The scandal shook America to the core. In The Sting Man, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert W. Greene presents not only a thrilling account of the rise of the FBI's international con mastermind,...
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Series
Thomlinson Library volume 2227
Publisher
printed at the University-Press, for Edmund Jeffery, and Robert Chapman, Booksellers in Cambridge
Pub. Date
1711
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
'The Sting Man' is the amazing inside story of Mel Weinberg, one of the most fascinating fast-buck operators to ever live, and the incredible scandals he masterminded. Hustling his way from the streets of the Bronx to hawking bogus businesses around the world, Weinberg netted millions and famously dreamed up Abscam - the infamous FBI-run sting operation of the late 1970's that would bag seven congressmen and one U.S. senator.
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