January 20, 2025
EP. 278 — Big Crime Energy w/ Jordan Carlos (Re-Release)
This week, Jordan Carlos joins us to discuss how, during the 1970s, the FBI hired Mel Weinberg, a career con man, to tackle some of Washington’s biggest politicians. This story inspired the movie American Hustle! Laci and Jordan dive into growing up in Dallas near the same churches, driving a Ford, and the con of writing ad commercials. Plus, Late Night Talk Show Host John Oliver is scamming the scammers…Congress, that is. Stay schemin’!
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Research done by Kaelyn Brandt
SOURCES
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/obituaries/mel-weinberg-dead-abscam-informant.html
https://www.nj.com/inside-jersey/2013/11/jersey_hustle_the_real-life_story_of_abscam.html
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/abscam
https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/expulsion/140HarrisonWilliams_expulsion.htm
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