The Tale of Conman Count Victor Lustig

 

Description

He sold the Eiffel Tower. He turned a lawman into a crook. He was a rabbi, priest, birthday party clown, blind beggar on the street, and a bellhop. He mingled with society and the underworld. And he spent his last years on the Rock.


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Credits

Hosted and edited by Lars Hacking

Written and researched by Charlie Worroll

Music by Marc Walloch

Additional music by Dee Yan-Key

Cover art by Lars Hacking

Sources

INTERNET

NEWSPAPER

  • Head of Counterfeit Ring Gets 20 Years, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 10 Dec 1935

  • Man of 63 Aliases, The Record, 12 Jun 1937

  • Swindler No 1 Trapped With Phony $52K, Daily News, 14 May 1935

  • Secret Service Was My Job, The Pittsburg Press, 21 Jun 1951

  • US Agents Nab ‘Count’ Lustig, Times Union, 13 May 1935

  • The Trail of the Golden Fleece, Daily News, 20 Oct 1955

 
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