
A Mega-Con Man for the Ages: Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil
Ridiculous Crime
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Is This a Con Man's Business?
He tried to go straight, but he just couldn't do it. He opened a legitimate hotel called the Martinique in Chicago. They served really nice booze during prohibition. It was like this criminal hotspot after only a couple of months. So we have to burn it down. We kind of tried to flip it into an illegal operation. And they were like, all right, look, we're going to get into this. This is amazing. William Carlos Williams. These poets and tennis rex Rod. Big Bill Baywood. How about I never heard of this group? Anarchist prostitutes,. Like religious zealots. Oh, and then con men, of course.
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