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EP. 138 — BCE: Big Crime Energy w/ Jordan Carlos
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.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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