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Five Crow men at Fort Parker

Contractors in Bozeman Montana Robbed Both the Government and Its Indian Wards

by David McCormick10/20/20238/30/2023

Federal spending by the Crow agency in Montana Territory certainly benefited contractors, but at what cost to reservation Indians?

Battle of the Alamo painting

These Forgettable Frauds Fibbed About Being at the Alamo

by Ron J. Jackson Jr.6/9/20236/9/2023

Bernstein, seated, in a New York court in 1938 with lawyer Greg Bautzer to answer charges of kiting checks.

He Was a Lifelong Con Man. His Biggest Mark: Adolf Hitler

by Peter Carlson12/6/202212/13/2022

Jean Napoleon Zerman portrait

The Rogue General Lincoln Loved Was a ‘Convicted Swindler and Forger’

by Frank Jastrzembski10/25/202212/6/2022

‘Bubble in the Sun’ Review: How Con Men Got Rich Selling Florida Swamp Land

by Clayton Trutor 6/17/20217/14/2021