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08. The Impostor (Jimmy Sabatino)

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The Rise and Fall of Jimmy Sabatino

Jimmy Sabatino was arrested in 1994 for running the same hotel scam he had been using in New York. He would almost always use his real name when checking in, and it became somewhat of his calling card. In one scheme, Jimmy called an electronic store pretending to be the nephew of Tommy Matola, the president of Sony Music. And if there's one thing that Jimmy consistently does every time he gets out of jail, it's that he goes right back in.

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