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Victor Lustig wasn’t just a con man — he was the blueprint. In this Wrap Sheet breakdown, I take you behind the curtain of the wildest fraudster to ever breathe air thin enough to lie in. From selling the Eiffel Tower (twice), to outsmarting the Secret Service, to conning Al Capone without ending up in a Chicago river… Lustig’s life is a masterclass in deception, confidence, and the kind of psychological sorcery that would make most modern scammers look like they’re running a lemonade stand.

In this solo Wrap Sheet breakdown, we’re diving into:

• How Lustig staged a fake government operation inside the Hotel de Crillon

• Why André Poisson became the perfect mark

• The insane second attempt to sell the Eiffel Tower

• The Rumanian Money Box: a scam so dumb it was brilliant

• Lustig’s daring play against Al Capone

• His counterfeit empire and capture

• And the almost-believable theory he tried to escape Alcatraz as the prison chaplain

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