Mel Weinberg: The Conman Who Flipped

“The only time that international swindler Melvin Weinberg couldn’t con his way out of a tough spot and turn it to his advantage came on May 30 of this year, when he died at the age of 93 in Florida, after a lucrative, unrepentant life of crime for which he managed to elude punishment. But, as he himself noted long ago, eventually “every con man gets swindled.”

Leslie writes in Politico about the undercover agent who helped the FBI run Abscam — Read the article