S6 Ep25: The True Story Behind ‘American Hustle’

Crimes of the Centuries

Sep 7, 202656:46Society & Culture

A con man with a gift for talking fast and a knack for never getting caught made himself invaluable to the FBI in the late 1970s — and the FBI made him the centerpiece of the biggest political corruption sting in a gener...

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