In this week's Fraud Friday, Laci is joined by Nimesh Patel (Thank You China_)_ to discuss James Hogue, named one of Time’s Top 10 Imposters, this runner turned bike-thief fooled an Ivy League school into thinking he was a student but was really a 31-year-old con man. Plus, the Red Power Ranger has been arrested by the FBI because of COVID fraud. Stay Schemin’! (Originally Released 06/27/2022)
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Research by Kaelyn Brandt
SOURCES:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/09/03/the-runner
https://www.aspentimes.com/news/famed-con-man-who-lived-in-ajax-shack-arrested-again-in-aspen/
https://paw.princeton.edu/article/strange-case-james-arthur-hogue
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