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The Grifter

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The Grifter

FromDecoder Ring


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The Grifter

FromDecoder Ring

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Length:
54 minutes
Released:
Jan 31, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

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Brett Johnson was a career criminal: a fraudster, a con man, a cyber criminal, but now he’s a legal person operating on the right side of the law, helping companies stop people like he used to be. His story is the stuff of a movie like Catch Me iI You Can, it involves wild scams, narrow escapes, redemption, and even a trip to Disney World. Throughout his criminal career he defrauded people on the street, on eBay, on criminal web forums, within the justice system, and even inside the United States Secret Service. There’s great entertainment value in Brett’s story, but there’s also a great deal of complication to it, too. Real life isn’t as neat and tidy as a movie, and the ending is yet to be written. 
Today we explore Brett’s story, first by letting you enjoy it, and then we deconstruct it, to decide if we should. 
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Released:
Jan 31, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Decoder Ring is the show about cracking cultural mysteries. In each episode, host Willa Paskin takes a cultural question, object, or habit; examines its history; and tries to figure out what it means and why it matters.