June 13, 2022
EP. 142 — The Queen of Cons w/ Miranda Cosgrove & Nathan Kress
What’s poppin con-gregration? It’s the iCarly, Scam Goddess crossover we’ve all been waiting for! We got Miranda Cosgrove and Nathan Kress discussing Cassie Chadwick, who at the turn of the 20th century became one of the US’ foremost accomplished fraudsters. Plus, a Florida man is charged with 114 counts of various fraud, after he was caught in an alleged decades-long scheme to defraud Florida State’s Division of Unclaimed Property. Stay Schemin’!
Research by Kaelyn Brandt.
Sources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-high-priestess-of-fraudulent-finance-45/
https://www.wrhs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Cassie-Chadwick.pdf
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