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BCE: Big Crime Energy w/ Jordan Carlos
Podcast |
Scam Goddess
Publisher |
Earwolf
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Comedy
Publication Date |
May 17, 2022
Episode Duration |
01:36:18

What’s poppin’ con-gregation? This week, Jordan Carlos joins us to discuss how during the 1970’s the FBI hired Mel Weinberg, a career conman to tackle some of Washington’s biggest politicians. This story inspired the movie American Hustle. Plus, Late Night Talk Show Host John Oliver is scamming the scammers…Congress that is. Stay schemin’!

 

Research by Kaelyn Brandt. https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/last-week-tonight-john-oliver-recap-season-9-episode-7-congress-data-1335598/

weinberg-dead-abscam-informant.html">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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