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A Mega-Con Man for the Ages: Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil

Ridiculous Crime

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Yellow Man, the Reggae Artist, Father of Yellow Kid Whale

door Albright: NWA's "yellow kid" worked with a bunch of different con men. He and his pals, including the Deacon Buckminster, they set up a fake private gambling club there. They paid actors to hang out and pretend to gamble. That's the sting inspiration. So one time yellow kid he's like reading through the paper and he sees an ad to sublet this like really nice luxury apartment for nine months in Chicago. And so he's like, let's rent it and just we'll have access to that space. We can find a use for this. It's a nice apartment. I can work with this. Yellow kid would go to great lengths to

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