I actually knew one of the biggest con men out there of them all...The Silver King of Nevada. He did his con in about 1974 but I met him many years later. I didn't know about his past but he was in the middle of another con of selling real estate in cyberspace. Anyway, he was free with his money to establish his front which included paying well for literary endeavors and comix in a magazine he supported. That's where I came in. However, I didn't know about his past until years after that when he was busted and sentenced to prison.
p.s. Oh, and I also got a FREE vacation including airfare in Costa Rica.
That brings back memories of a whole list of con men. I will have to write them down. I wrote the biography of Harry Reid, he’s one of the biggest. Bankrolled in part by his good buddy Kirk Kerkorian, another crook.