
Part One: The King of Con Artists, Victor Lustig
Behind the Bastards
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By the time World War I ended, Victor Lustig was in New York City. He'd learned to English and his time conning rich Europeans meant he was already pretty good at pretending to be one of those. His first US schemes were distinctly middling an ambition. "Before I was podcasting professionally, I would just shout at people from street corners"
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