A con man in business turned out to be an even greater con man in office.
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"I have met a con man or two in my life, actually a major con man," Mirren said, explaining that she found out only when he ended up behind bars.
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Reporter: Well he called you a con man last time.
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"In reality, he was just a con man," Srinivasan said.
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He was a public servant, Trump a venal con man.
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The idea is that our hero will prime the heiress to fall in love with the con man — and then the con man will confine the heiress to a madhouse after the two elope.
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In the end, I would hold my nose and support the con man who says we should make America great again, rather than the con man who says we should make America Christian again.
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What were the attributes that made Wright a good con man?
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His subject, an infamous con man called Ziggy, is infuriatingly evasive.
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Apparently, a con man is constitutionally unable to tell the truth.
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In the old days the con man was a confidence man.
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Is he an ice man, a con man, or a creep?
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One has you stealing some horses, another capturing a notorious con man.
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According to the episode, John was raised by a con man himself.
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The way police describe him, con man might be a better title.
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This suggests that he is little more than a narcissistic con man.
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What undecided voter can in good conscience vote for this con man?
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"I was treated like a con man for three years," Ma said.
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Trump is a con man, and we are his biggest mark yet.
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Fate in the form of the con man (Ha Jung-woo) intervenes.
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Why should it be different when the con man runs for president?
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He's not just a con man, he was a con baby first.
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They called him a felon, a con man and a pathological liar.
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" What he's saying: Sharpton tweeted, "Trump says I'm a troublemaker & con man.
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He's a lifelong charlatan, a con man, a habitué of bankruptcy courts.
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I'm no real celebrity, just a moonfaced con man from Redditch, England.
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Ms. Diski's father was a con man; her mother was subject to breakdowns.
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" Cohen testified last week that Trump is a "racist" and a "con man.
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The con man presents three shells, one of which has a penny underneath.
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When that happens, Republicans will relearn how to call Trump a con man.
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There's plenty of evidence that Mr. Trump is a con man, a fake.
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Jimmy's trying to reinvent himself from a con man to a respected lawyer.
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And do read this accounting of an outdoor-lifestyle con man, in Outside.
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Why is a former con man the best person to write this book?
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But Cercas couldn't shake a nagging sense of connection with the con man.
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But we're more in awe of young Jack: thief, con man and hero.
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Eddie Jemison played a computer expert and careful con-man named Livingston Dell.
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Cohen characterized the president as a con man, a cheat and a racist.
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Irving, Trump admits openly, was a con man — and kind of an asshole.
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We spoke to Ellin about Dirty John and the con-man she once loved.
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Until now, John — expert con-man and ex-con — had the clear upper hand.
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Rubio has tepidly endorsed Trump, despite calling him a "con man" during the primary.
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In her papers she claims he is an "abusive con-man" who manipulated Mrs.
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Greater peril lurks in telling them that they are marks for a con-man.
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Con man, cult leader, populist politician: Trump is all of these, rolled into one.
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One conservative anti-Trump group is running with the 'con-man' line of attack.
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I had crowd-funded a show called "Con Man" and we were in preproduction.
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This is not only typical of him, this is what this con man does.
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John Harwood: And I wonder in the case of your party, if the larger idea is that Democrats think that Donald Trump is a con man, and they are justified in finding ways to, grounds to get a con man out of office.
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Svenson/Conway says the so-called Reaper was a con man preacher passing through town (as one did back in the '60s) and that he told a group of men what happened and they took the con man away and killed him.
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That's where Bachman comes in, and more specifically where his particular con man philosophy shines.
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"Con Man is a celebration of the world of Cons and that fandom," Tudyk said.
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And, when Debra's family learns the truth, the con man becomes all the more dangerous.
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Rubio has cast Trump as a con man and questioned his wealth and business acumen.
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"There's plenty of evidence that Mr. Trump is a con man, a fake," said Romney.
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Mr. Holiday, a professed media con man, started selling a repackaged 2,300-year-old philosophy.
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They're taken under the wing of a con man, who sees dollar signs in their gift.
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He turns out to be a con man whose scheming wipes out humanity all the same.
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You called Trump "a con man," he insults your very being and you still endorse him?
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On another occasion last month, he compared Trump to convicted Wall Street con man Bernie Madoff.
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I was the one at the national convention who said [President] Trump was a con man.
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In his testimony, Mr. Cohen called the president a racist, a con man and a cheat.
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If he really thought I was a con man he would want me in his cabinet.
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Montoya added: "Barr&aposs comments do nothing but reinforce an inexplicable devotion to a con man."
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Le Carré, whose childhood was awful and whose father was a notorious con man, signed up.
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In Dirty John, she was a girl who knew a con-man when she saw one.
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At this point, perhaps inevitably, we come to the con man: James Howard, a convicted felon.
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"He is a con man and he knows what people don't ask questions about," Mr. Clark said.
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" In his tweets on Monday, Trump called Sharpton a "con man, a troublemaker" who "Hates Whites & Cops!
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Yet it is Trump, the ultimate con man, who has taken advantage of the unfair playing field.
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Can she relate to the bad online dates that Debra endures before meeting her charming con man?
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It's not so much about out-and-out lying; that's the traditional purview of the con man.
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Trollope's "The Way We Live Now," the story of a financial con man who goes into politics.
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Rubio argued that he only just recently turned his attention to "unmasking" Trump as a con man.
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But having not yet read the script, McKellan had no idea he'd be playing a con man.
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Because I recall the early internet and having that kind of con man-ish kind of thing.
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"I have described him as an impostor and a con man and a would-be dictator," Soros said.
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She sees Jimmy for who he is — a gifted con man — and outside of the hotel, kisses him.
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Convicted con man Gilbert Chikli said he laundered 2800 percent of his money through China and Hong Kong.
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"The man has spent over 15 years as an unscrupulous salesman, a kind of con man," Lakoff said.
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When she tries to rent an apartment, she gives five thousand dollars in cash to a con man.
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Many consider Donald Trump to be nothing more than a simple con man with an inheritance safety net.
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It has been apparent for some time that the president is a con man, racist, cheat and liar.
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Is he the second coming of Christ or just a con man with an impressive social media following?
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If they had, they would have discovered that Howard-Higgins was a con man and a convicted felon.
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His name is Reynard, he is engaged to Nina and he is a con man of some kind.
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His name is Reynard, he is engaged to Nina and he is a con man of some kind.
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Looper fiddled with the time-traveling sci-fi movie, while Brothers Bloom took on the con-man comedy.
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Con-Man Con-Man kicked off the Hall H festivities on Friday, and the online show about the stars that make up various cons – now streaming on Comic-Con HQ – had plenty to tease from its fan-favorite cast, which includes Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk and Lou Ferrigno, among others.
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" Rather, it appears to be an attack in the spirit of conning a con man, as in "The Sting.
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Romney called Trump a "phony" and "con man" during the 103 presidential race, but their relationship has since thawed.
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I essentially signed up because of Con Man, which is entertaining, but not enough to get me to stay.
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Later, Toby is stunned when Debbie's con-man husband John Meehan (Eric Bana) even brings up his dad, Billy.
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He finds an unexpected mentor in Reigen, who Mob doesn't realize is a con man who isn't actually psychic.
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The flip side of the con man is the hustler, always on the make with an eye for opportunity.
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For all they know, he's a maniac or a con man trying to cheat them out of their money.
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How did someone who looks so much like a cheap con man bulldoze right through the G.O.P. nomination process?
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This con man theory seemed speculative until the Haggler found photographs of Mr. Swenson on a part of romancescam.
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Rubio just told the Miami Herald that he stands by calling Trump a "con man" during the primary race.
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Yes, he's a con man, but he is also effectively acting as a whistle-blower on other people's cons.
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There are a number of people who claim that Mr. Trump is a con man, a fake — thank you.
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When on Friday, a Republican presidential nominee flung words like "fraud" and "con man" at the Republican front-runner?
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The whole point about being a con man (or woman) was the ability to inspire confidence in your victims.
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Mr. Cohen called the president a "con man" and a "cheat" who had intentionally misrepresented his assets and liabilities.
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"I apologize because I helped put an unfit con man in the White House," Walsh, 57, told VICE News.
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From the beginning, I saw Donald Trump as a con man of the highest order: manipulative, dishonest, unprincipled, amoral.
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Insurance companies pay off bogus con-man claims while searching for ways to deny health care to the infirm.
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But in closing arguments, prosecutors flipped that script and said Cosby was the true con man in this story.
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"Larry Ray is a psychotic con man who has victimized every friend he's ever had," Kerik told the magazine.
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When Birchall received the referral for Howard, the con man PI, Musk had clearly expressed that he expected litigation.
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Is this the crusade of a secular messiah or the last, best act of a huckster and con man?
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Then the president spoke, and an hour later we knew that the master con man had done it again.
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DUPED Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married By Abby Ellin 261 pp. PublicAffairs. $27.
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He is, after all, a former con man, and some part of that old life will always hold sway.
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" He repeated one of Mr. Rubio's main charges against him, saying, "The last thing I am is a con man.
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Yet, Debra Newell (Connie Britton) did jump head-first into a relationship with career con-man John Meehan (Eric Banna).
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Mitchard's husband had hired a financial advisor, who, as it turned out, was something more: A full-time con man.
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John Meehan (played by Eric Bana in Dirty John), didn't become the terrifying skilled con-man he was without help.
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Ian McKellen charms as Roy, a London con man who woos elderly women into signing their savings over to him.
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"Catch Me If You Can" (2002) tells the story of a young con man who becomes a successful bank robber.
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"Your support of Trump defines you as a supporter of a con man, egomaniac, racist," wrote Jeff Milewski of Michigan.
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"Formally, things have to become other things, or else I feel unsatisfied and/or like a con man," he said.
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"I am a New Yorker; I know how to take on an arrogant con man like Donald Trump," he said.
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"I think he's too good a con man for me to mix with," one juror told The Las Vegas Sun.
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But Kosinski played other roles too: Holocaust survivor, con man, sex fiend, Hollywood actor, seer, a guy on the make.
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The women who learned of Alldred's betrayal became diligent detectives, and worked together to take down the con man for good.
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" Jackson describes her nephew as "an abusive con-man" who has manipulated her in order to "assume control of her finances.
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Excerpted from The Players Ball: A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet's Rise by David Kushner.
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"There are a number of people who claim that Mr. Trump is a con man, a fake — thank you," Romney said.
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" The bottom line: Far from the business genius he purports to be, Mr. Trump is no better than a "con man.
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He plays Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd, a con man who features in several episodes of the original 1966-68 Star Trek.
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During the 2016 primary, Rubio called Trump a "con man" and suggested that he had wet his pants during a debate.
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A con man can only succeed when the mark is blinded by his or her own ego, greed, insecurity, or prejudice.
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There's an old saying that you can't con a con man, but Trump's presidency is putting that aphorism to the test.
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The 2002 Steven Spielberg film was based off Abagnale's memoir of his time as a teenage con man in the 1960s.
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The word can be traced to "thag," a Hindi word meaning "thief" or "con man," whose roots go back to Sanskrit.
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Steven Spielberg's satirical caper — the true story of Frank Abagnale's prolific check-fraud and con-man crimes — earned two Oscar nods.
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Al Sharpton as "a con man" who "Hates Whites & Cops!" and again criticized Representative Elijah Cummings and his Baltimore-based district.
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" He added that he thinks Trump "is a con man and a narcissist, who wants the world to revolve around him.
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Romney called Trump a "con man," and claimed his "domestic policies would lead to recession" while questioning his temperament and judgment.
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Cohen said, in his opening statement, that, in addition to being a con man and a cheat, Trump is a racist.
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Through the first five years of dating Vicki, I was coined as a con man, low life, gold digger, dead beat, etc.
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She didn't see a con man working his grift; she saw revenge on the people she thought took her dignity, her safety.
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"But you saw him for what he was -- a con man, a predator, a crime boss," prosecutor Moira Penza told jurors Monday.
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The trial "has exposed Martin Shkreli for who he really is — a con man who stole millions," added another prosecutor, Jacquelyn Kasulis.
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Getting on board without getting caught was a challenge and served as the perfect entry-level con for a lifelong con man.
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One of the Wall Street bankers I know likes to say that the president has three personalities: chairman, showman and con man.
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"I might be a con man if I wasn't [an actor]," Cranston told Mashable and other reporters at a recent interview roundtable.
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As president, Trump—a con man who traffics in dark fantasy—would quickly find himself constrained by the realities of actual government.
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This two-faced formula was successful enough to win Trump the presidency, so simply denouncing him as a con man won't suffice.
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Perhaps, if nominated, Trump will turn out to be the con man he stands accused of being—in the very best way.
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But an unusual opportunity arises, and he grudgingly agrees to become the bodyguard for a con man named Mr. Wednesday (Ian McShane).
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Given his status as a homeless con man on the roughest streets of Baltimore, it's an interesting gesture for Bubbles to make.
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But we've gotten only laughs out of the con man who couldn't remember the name he told his potential victim to remember.
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Ryan is no less hollow than the Republican Party, which explains why they were so easily commandeered by a celebrity con man.
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This only strengthens the narrative of Trump as a con man who does not pay his bills and stiffs contractors and employees.
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Cohen testified last week that Trump is a "con man" and a "cheat," and alleged the president engaged in potentially criminal activity.
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He is describable, almost fully, in a few short words: a misogynist, a bigot, a narcissist, a con man and a demagogue.
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Jenifer says in fact, he was a con man who served time and LA Fitness should have known and not hired him.
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Michael D. Cohen, who once served as the president's lawyer, testified in February that his former boss was a "con man."CreditCreditT.
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Is it the endless Machiavellian play of the ultimate con man, or does Heidl believe what he says when he says it?
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In the attorney's life, you can see the strange ease with which a sybaritic con man fit in with crusading social reactionaries.
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It depends entirely too much on honesty, thus serving as a perfect home for a certain kind of mulligan-taking con man.
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Gail: Yeah, I suspect we are in accord about Roger Stone, career political con man and threatener of small, fluffy service dogs.
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" A few minutes later, Don Lemon said this on CNN: "The president of the United States is a fraud and a con man.
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Instead, he was a con man who devoted more than two decades to manipulating more than a dozen unsuspecting women looking for love.
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"Dirty John", a podcast about John Meehan, a con man and sociopath, was downloaded more than 10m times within weeks of its release.
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If you make them anxious enough, they might even turn to a bombastic con man who offers bumper-sticker slogans and cheap bravado.
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The series is a prequel to "Breaking Bad" and follows Jimmy McGill, a con-man and lawyer, early in his life and career.
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One of the core ideas that Trump is selling (that the system is corrupt) also helps insulate him from the con-man critique.
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S. summit, Fed testimony and a congressional hearing featuring President Donald Trump's former attorney, who called him a cheat and a con man.
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The other big story on the GOP side was Rubio's increasingly pugnacious attacks on Trump as a "con man" with stubby little fingers.
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And Donald Trump, a political con man who sympathizes with hit man Vladimir Putin and "Republicans" such as Charlie Crist, manifestly is not.
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I ask all you Trump supporters; for the sake of your kids and your country, expose this con man for what he is.
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To be still more blunt, to anyone with their critical faculties undimmed by partisan rage or calculation, he is obviously a con-man.
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" She described her nephew (through marriage) as "an abusive con-man" who has manipulated her in order to "assume control of her finances.
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As I have pointed out on a number of occasions, Mr. Ryan is fundamentally a con man on his signature issue, fiscal policy.
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So there were plenty who rejoiced when the hip-hop–hoarding mogul was accused by the feds of essentially being a con man.
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He's made an extreme about-face after calling Trump "a con man, a fake," in a high-profile speech during the 2016 election.
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We've seen her take on roles from Katniss Everdeen to Mystique, from a Russian intelligence officer to the wife of a con man.
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This gripping six-part series and accompanying podcasts explores the lives of a family caught in the machinations of a vicious con man.
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Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney had blasted Trump the previous week, claiming the alleged billionaire was more con man than business genius.
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In other words, the only thing Republicans, like Mitch McConnell, have accomplished is setting the stage for a hateful con man, Donald Trump.
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Wood displayed a non-disclosure agreement that Birchall entered into with James Howard, a con man who purported to be a private investigator.
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In another twist, it turned out that Howard-Higgins was a con man with a criminal record, and may have fabricated information altogether.
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Already a household name at the time of the first film's release, Brad Pitt delivered a stellar performance as con-man Rusty Ryan.
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Mr. Romney, who in 2016 excoriated Mr. Trump as an amoral con man, graciously accepted the president's Twitter-born endorsement on Monday night.
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The second, Dr. Death, told the tale of a different con man: neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch, whose botched surgeries left patients paralyzed and even dead.
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He delivered a blistering opening statement that described his former boss as a "racist" and a "con man" who regularly directed him to lie.
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"It feels, when you have finished it, as if you've been nose to nose for four hours with an entertaining con man," she writes.
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Amidst his string of business failures, Trump's singular talent has been that of any con man: the incredible ability to cultivate a public image.
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In a speech in March, Romney called Trump a "con man" with a history of failed businesses and lambasted his policy proposals as dangerous.
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The United States, attacked and wounded, tried managed decline, and at last, in wild frustration, elected a loudmouthed con man to its highest office.
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This story is adapted from The Players Ball: A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet's Rise, by David Kushner.
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The debate ended with everyone on stage — people who'd called Trump a con man and a fake, a liar unfit to serve, ignorant, etc.
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Young also writes as an appalled citizen-witness to the November 2016 election, in which 63 million pulled the lever for a con man.
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In the show, Ms. Pollack, plays Louise, the troubled daughter of Julie Jordan and Billy Bigelow; Mr. Ramasar is Jigger Craigin, a con man.
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Steve Cavanagh's hero, Eddie Flynn, has taken to the profession with the same relish he showed for his previous work as a con man.
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See more exploits of this "Con man Casanova," and how Daylon Pierce's victims finally come together to help bring his party to an end.
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And if the price of admission, he added, was talking about "how Trump is a con man, with a bad spray tan," so be it.
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Bernard Madoff's investors vividly recall the shock — 2000 years ago Tuesday — when they learned they were victims of the biggest con man of all time.
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This isn't far off from Bad Santa (2003), which revolved around a con man who accidentally had to take up the mantle of Santa Claus.
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To most people, there's something about John Meehan (Eric Bana), the grinning con-man at the heart of Dirty John, that just doesn't sit right.
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NBC News described the defendant as a "once wealthy financier" formerly named John Gary Rinaldo, and who appears to have quite the con-man résumé.
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Senator Marco Rubio, for example, said Trump was a "con man" and too dangerous to control the nuclear codes, but he ended up endorsing him.
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Will Mitt Romney—last seen in season one, episode seven calling Trump a "con man" and a "fraud"—get a rose from his former rival?
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Rubio has begun calling Trump a "con man" on the trail, and repeatedly did so at a rally in nearby Huntsville just the previous day.
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In a memo seeking to detain Mr. Cabasso in custody until trial, prosecutors portrayed him as a serial con man with a long criminal history.
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At the end of the day, when Trump takes the lipstick off his expressive, puckery lips, he's still an amoral liar, bigot and con man.
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I believe he actually loves Alice and is torn between two lives: his con man alter-ego Christopher Hall and whoever the guy underneath is.
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It's not enough anymore to be mere Nigerian royalty, so Pius (Chinaza Uche), the central con man in "Nigerian Prince," doesn't confine himself to phishing.
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Opinion Columnist Scammers and cheats are the paradigmatic figures of our age, and not just because a con man is president of the United States.
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Trump has denied knowing Parnas, calling him a "groupie" and a "con man" when asked about his claims during a press conference earlier this week.
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THE PROFESSOR AND THE PARSON A Story of Desire, Deceit, and Defrocking By Adam Sisman A con man is only as good as his charm.
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To the Trump supporters who voted for this con man thinking he had your back, my heart goes out to you, because he does not.
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In his opening statement, he denounced Trump as passionately as he had once defended him, calling him a racist, a con man, and a cheat.
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But the biggest charge that Mr. Rubio hopes will stick is the one in which he has called Mr. Trump a "con man" over and over.
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Finally, if you haven't already, check out the story my colleagues Jim McKinley and Rick Rojas recently put together about a con man named Jeremy Wilson.
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And as entertaining as Con Man is, I don't see the service writing huge checks to get the next big show I really want to watch.
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Alice Vaughn (Mireille Enos) The private investigator spent most of season 1 in a baffling cat and mouse game with her con man fiancé Benjamin Jones.
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The minute you die, your reputation becomes fair game for every liar, con man, tabloid, or vengeful enemy, as well as for the unbalanced media portrayals.
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In this charming memoir, le Carré writes about how his father, a con man, prepared the future author to become first a spy, then a novelist.
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"Donald Trump is a divisive, dangerous, con man who should never be president of the United States," said Justin Barasky, a spokesman for the super PAC.
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"One of the things that Paul, the con man, learns about the couple is that they have a double-sided Kandinsky in their apartment," Janney said.
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During the primaries, Marco Rubio characterized Donald Trump as a "con man," and he won't apologize for it even though he's now on the Trump Train.
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Finally, nothing to do with food, but you should read Christopher Goffard's series of articles about an Orange County con man, in The Los Angeles Times.
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Because infertility is often blamed on them, a con man found his opening — going around the country for years claiming he could "cure" them with sex.
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As much as he is a bigot, Mr. Trump is also a con man sowing racial division to grab power for himself and other economic titans.
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The contrast with le Carré's con man father, Ronnie, whose wayward life inspired his mesmerizing novel "A Perfect Spy" (1986), could not have been more pronounced.
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If he is both reformer and con man, our relations should be guided by realpolitik, utilizing him while limiting the damage he can do to us.
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"He is a racist, he is a con man, and he is a cheat," said Cohen, who is facing prison time for lying to Congress earlier.
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Spiro then began asking Musk questions about the private investigator he retained to look into Unsworth — an investigator who turned out to be a con man.
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" But Musk admitted that an investigator he hired to try and bolster his claims of Unsworth's pedophilia or other criminal activity was a "professional con man.
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What would Genet make of an ingenious con man from Queens, the hapless scion of a racist developer, sworn in as President of the United States?
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By the time it was over, Clinton unmasked Trump as a con man over his failure to release tax returns and penchant for not paying his workers.
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I knew Pitt from his con-man character in Ocean's Eleven and was enamored with his confidence and ability to eat any food and still look hot.
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Wright's claims were greeted with intense skepticism from many in the bitcoin community, who saw Wright as a con man using the Satoshi identity for personal gain.
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Likewise, his recent pro-life stance cannot be taken as a serious moral and political position, but rather is the blatantly empty promise of a con man.
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From the beginning, there have also been worries in the press and public that the President is a con man, selling something that isn't what it seems.
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Wright's claims were greeted with intense skepticism from many in the Bitcoin community, who saw Wright as a con man using the Satoshi identity for personal gain.
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She sued the gym because she claims he was a known con man with a record who had served time, but wasn't vetted before he was hired.
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This is only possible because Selina rekindled her awful romance with professional con-man Andrew (David Pasquesi), despite Gary's unsubtle hints this is The Worst Idea Ever.
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The customers said their accounts with Madoff were not "covered securities," barring them from pursuing their case, because the con man had total discretion over their money.
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Young people were welcoming to people and things who were new and different, which also made them easy prey for a con man such as Charles Manson.
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Johnson draws a fascinating portrait of Rist as a self-rationalizing con man and exposes the culture of secrecy and opportunism that marks his fellow fly-tiers.
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So is "Sneaky Pete" — the story of a con man who passes himself off as the long-lost grandson of a family that runs a Bridgeport, Conn.
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In fact, diGenova's record of loose talk and as a conspiracy theory con man appear to be his main qualifications for an appointment to the Trump team.
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Matt Damon does a fantastic job bringing the con man Tom Ripley to life, who is the main protagonist in a series of novels from Patricia Highsmith.
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Romney savaged Trump during the 2016 campaign, calling him a "con man" who was unfit for the presidency, but the two men later set aside their differences.
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A con man (Ha Jung-woo) masquerading as a count has plans of his own — a scheme that seems doomed when things between the women turn steamy.
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Watching television one evening, Maud is entranced by the bragging of a ruggedly handsome con man, recently released from prison and promoting a book about his swindles.
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He accused the president of being a "racist", and a "cheat", as well as a "con man" for suppressing the publication of his high-school and college grades.
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Debra Newell (Connie Britton) finds her con-man love interest John Meehan (Eric Bana) via internet dating, making all swipe-rights seem like a life or death decision.
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As we all know in the real world, John Meehan, the titular subject of both Dirty John the podcast and the Bravo TV adaptation, was a con man.
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As long as Trump can project an image of almost superhuman indifference to what other people want out of him, he can likely buck the con-man rap.
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To win reelection, Trump, a corrupt con man (who jumped ship on his own bankrupt casinos, money in hand, leaving others holding the bag) will cheat and lie.
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You voted for a reality TV con man who sold us a bill of goods and presents the greatest existential threat to America, because it comes from within.
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Billy Bob Thornton stars as Willie, a foul-mouthed, alcoholic con man who is a department store Santa, alongside his elf-playing partner in crime, Marcus (Tony Cox).
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John Rando directs this revival of the Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn musical comedy about a lovable con man who makes New Jersey just a little more corrupt.
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But a con man (Ha Jung-woo) masquerading as a count has plans of his own — a scheme that seems doomed when things between the women turn steamy.
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Was this the same man who denounced Donald Trump as a "con man" in March of 2016 and then auditioned to be his secretary of state that November?
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Allison Janney, John Benjamin Hickey and Corey Hawkins star in a drama, directed by Trip Cullman, about a con man who stumbles his way into an affluent home.
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His con man brother Wilson prophetically said, "Easy street is a blind alley," and not much later the two of them found themselves stumbling along its darkened length.
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Some have rejected Trump as a dangerous con man, but many others are more or less shamefacedly supporting him, citing Supreme Court appointments or their mistrust of Clinton.
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A major agreement struck in Hanoi might also have pushed aside embarrassing headlines about Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen testifying that the President is a racist con man.
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But, while Mr. Starmer was the director of public prosecutions — effectively the country's chief prosecutor — his persona was once borrowed by a con man to impress female victims.
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This article is adapted from the author's book, "Duped: Double Lives, False Identities and the Con Man I Almost Married," which was published by Public Affairs last month.
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The ease with which a racist, misogynist, serial con man had slipped past every gatekeeper in American life suggested something deeply sick at the core of our society.
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"He's a con man who's taking advantage of people's fears and anxieties about the future, portraying himself as some sort of strong guy," Rubio told reporters in Oklahoma.
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Park preserves the surprise romance, the creepy mystery, and the startling twists, as a young Korean criminal agrees to help a con man seduce a rich, sheltered shut-in.
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Jordan's accusation came after Cohen, once a proud loyalist of Trump's during the campaign, excoriated him as a "racist," a "cheat" and a "con man" in his opening remarks.
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A closer look at Brinkley reveals a man whose deeds might be described as the work of a sociopath, a con man who didn't care which stories he spun.
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Instead she made her film debut, at 19, in "Purple Noon" ("Plein Soleil"), a 1960 movie based on a Patricia Highsmith novel about a handsome, homicidal young con man.
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His adaptations, beginning in 2009, of four hard-boiled novels by Richard Stark, a pseudonym used by Donald E. Westlake, featuring the coldblooded con man Parker, also won praise.
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Tatsumi showed me part of a 2008 movie in which an older woman deliberately lets a young con man scam her, because he reminds her of her dead son.
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That's because those were the bullshit pounds that low-carb diets use to hook their marks, like a con man giving away the first jackpot in a street hustle.
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It's not hard to see how an experienced older con man could manipulate these kids by using these cultural threads that were just in the era of the time.
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Prosecutors have said that while Mr. Raniere purported to be a mentor to troubled people, he was really a "con man" who exploited their desire to improve their lives.
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Starring Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, Amy Adams, and Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the moral intersection between con man and investigator.
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Mr. Obama's criticism of Mr. Trump reflects a deep antipathy he feels for his successor, whom he called a "con man" and a "know nothing" during the 2016 campaign.
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I'm not really a good con man, so I felt very uncomfortable, but when I came up here [the way] he talked about everything so nonchalantly dispelled my intimidation.
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Before "Exit," the screen showed a clip from a 1950s television show, "Trackdown," about a con-man character named Walter Trump who promised to build a wall for safety.
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But a con man (Ha Jung-woo) masquerading as a count has a plan of his own — a scheme that seems doomed when things between the women turn steamy.
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Walsh, who voted for Trump in the 2016 election, also apologized for what he said was his role in helping elect an "unfit con man" to the White House.
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Through trial and error, the con man has learned that a yellow safety vest, a baseball cap and a clipboard constitute an all-purpose disguise for real estate scams.
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Newcomer Christy Altomare plays Anya — an 18-year-old amnesiac orphan who, with the help of a con-man Dmitry (Derek Klena), poses as the long-lost Grand Duchess Anastasia.
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But in Dirty John, Britton plays Debra Newell, a beautiful, well-to-do interior designer who seemingly has it all, until she meets John (Eric Bana), a charismatic con man.
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The Brothers Bloom is a classic con man story about a pair of brothers (Ruffalo and Brody) who, after being orphaned at a young age, are now skilled scam artists.
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But It turns out that SeeFood, even with Erlich's con man approach to app development, might be the easier path to a "Shazam for food," considering everyone has a smartphone.
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The Iraqi defense ministry spent at least $85 million to purchase them from a British con man named James McCormick, who is currently serving ten years in prison for fraud.
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After leaving office, in 1877, he moved to New York, eager to make his fortune, and got swindled by a plausible con man, losing all the money he had made.
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If this man were some no-name huckster, our response would be very simple: he is a con man with an unbreakable habit of fraudulent behavior, never to be trusted.
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Calling Trump a con man, or an authoritarian snake-oil salesman with a racist streak and a marked disinterest in the business of governing isn't an insult—it's his brand.
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"Saul" tells the story of Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer and part-time con man who devolves into the criminal attorney we first met on "Breaking Bad," Saul Goodman.
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This raunchy, dark comedy stars Billy Bob Thornton as Willie, a con man who scams shopping centers as a mall Santa Claus with his partner in crime, Marcus (Tony Cox).
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"It's a great time to be a con man in America," remarks an interviewee at the end of "Fyre Fraud," Hulu's new documentary on a 2017 music festival-turned-scam.
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Steven Wessel is a convicted con man with a Big Apple flair, feigning connections to Ronald Reagan and pretending to be an Oxford man while bilking rich Manhattanites of $750,000.
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She also outlines a knowing path through Mr. Cattelan's career, leaving just enough room to have you wondering if the artist is more of a con man than a genius.
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What can they say now The coolest story is that John Beale, the man who headed up CLIMATE CHANGE for the government, is a proven con man and total phoney.
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"I've said all along that this president is a con man … he gives you something that might sound sweet, but you know it's gonna be bitter in the end," he continued.
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Charles Darwin was the first to discover this, calling it a survival tool developed by early tribes; facial expressions revealed if a stranger was friend or foe, con-man or comrade.
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"You can tell either he believes it in his core, or he's the absolute most talented con man on earth, which could very well be the case," one former employee said.
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After all, much of the president's behavior looks more like a flying-by-the-seat-of-his-pants con-man trying to keep hustle going than a Metternich-like grand strategist.
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He better not have just set up season 3 and bounced, though, because as far as TV dramas go, a con man in a three-piece suit is soooo my type.
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In "What A Con-Man," Priorities USA slams Trump for some of his failed business ventures, throwing "failed" stamps over advertisements for Trump University, Trump Steaks, Trump Magazine and Trump Vodka.
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Matt Dillon directed, starred in and was a writer of this thriller, in which he plays an American con man who ventures to Cambodia to collect earnings from an insurance scam.
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It's been a long time since we gathered here to unpack the rising and falling fortunes of our favorite con man turned corporate lawyer turned mobile phone dealer turned plaintiffs' attorney.
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Leonardo DiCaprio gives a dazzling performance as forger Frank Abagnale Jr., who since 19 has been everything from a pilot to a doctor thanks to his talents as a con man.
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Still, Republicans opposed to Trump see no other way to tear him down, and believe that humiliating him, or "unmasking the con-man," as Rubio put it, is the best strategy.
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The head of a high-tech private-investigation firm (Mireille Enos) discovers that the con man she's been chasing is actually her fiancé (Peter Krause), who disappears with all her money.
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Lawyers for all four defendants attacked Mr. Howe relentlessly, calling him a "pathological liar" and a "classic con man" who had even lied to his children's school and his dog walkers.
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Debra began the process of cutting Meehan out of her life, but, con man that he was, Meehan had an answer for every question and eventually convinced Debra to get back together.
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A con man who dubs himself "Count Fujiwara" and Sook Hee, a poor pickpocket accomplice, join forces to scam a rich man and his niece, Lady Hideko, out of their vast wealth.
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Before Debra Newell, whose terror-filled marriage to notorious con man John Meehan became the centerpiece of Bravo's scripted hit series, Dirty John, there was Tonia Bales, the sociopathic seducer's first wife.
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As the Dirty John podcast confirms, John's actions only escalate from there, which makes sense — Debra Newell's fifth husband was actually a lifetime con-man with a lengthy history of aggressive behavior.
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The endlessly watchable Giovanni Ribisi taps in as "Pete," which we put in quotes because he is actually playing a con man pretending to be Pete after a long stint in jail.
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Gaetz wrote it the day before Cohen gave damning testimony at the House Oversight and Government Reform committee that painted Trump as a racist con man who had repeatedly broke the law.
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Clinton's team has hoped to portray Mr. Trump as a dangerous "con man," as Democrats have said for days, whose self-interest clashes with the reservoir of populism he has tapped into.
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Ms. Huppert plays a filmmaker, based on Ms. Breillat, who, while recovering from a stroke, is swindled by a charismatic con man to whom she offered a role in her next movie.
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Rozelle's dim view of Trump — whom he saw as a clown and a con man — trickled down to his protégé, though Goodell is careful never to share his views on Trump publicly.
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Bravo's "Dirty John," with Eric Bana in the role of the con man John Meehan, is based on a true crime series from The Los Angeles Times and the podcast network Wondery.
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Mr. Criss is impressive and haunting as the mediocre con man and murderer, but "Assassination" is never quite sure what to make of its central figure, his narcissism or, perhaps, his sociopathy.
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The famous Siegfried "Ziggy" Heidl, a con man set to be sentenced for defrauding the banks of 700 million dollars while running the Australian Safety Organization, needs a ghostwriter for his autobiography.
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" Long shots against the President Walsh had previously called for a Republican to challenge the President, and earlier this month called Trump an "unfit con man" who is "bad for the country.
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On the other hand, I do have some insight into how Ryan — who has always been an obvious con man, to anyone willing to see — came to become speaker of the House.
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Background coverage: Through hours of damning testimony, Mr. Cohen called Mr. Trump a "racist," a "con man" and a "cheat" and accused the president of an expansive pattern of lies and criminality.
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Mr. Cohen began his testimony calling Mr. Trump a "con man and a cheat"; In just five minutes, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez actually helped him lay out the facts to substantiate those charges.
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Mr. Cohen described Mr. Trump as a "con man" and a "cheat," and estimated there might have been 20163 occasions on which he directly threatened someone at the behest of his boss.
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In sworn testimony on Wednesday to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, he painted President Trump, the man he used to revere, as a con man, a cheat and a racist.
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It was like a "con man, carny, medicine show of old," says Allen Ginsberg; "a circus atmosphere, dog and pony show," says Sam Shepard; "an experiment in communal existence," says Joni Mitchell.
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M. McFarland A con man (Giovanni Ribisi) leaves jail, steals his cellmate's identity, and begins the hunt for the buried money that just might save his brother from a vengeful gangster (Bryan Cranston).
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Debra Newell might be the show's stunning leading lady, complete with the inherent likability of portrayer Connie Britton, yet she also returns to her con-man husband, the titular Dirty John (Eric Bana).
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Trump knows what every con man knows: You can go far in life by simply telling people what they want to hear -- even if it's two completely different things at the same time.
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And in a widely publicized speech this week, 2012 GOP nominee and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney excoriated Trump as a "con man" who would cost the party the White House in November.
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When not following the couple's courtship, the movie stays with Roy, who is revealed to be not a charming and frail widower but a coldblooded con man with multiple schemes going at once.
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In the case of Fyre, the image in question turned out to be a massive scam, one orchestrated by a con man, Billy McFarland, who had enlisted rapper Ja Rule as his partner.
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He also tied Senate Republicans, who he said had given rise to "a hateful con man," to Mr. Trump's candidacy, a strategy that Democrats think could help them retake control of the Senate.
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The second was the arrival of another lost boy, a budding little con man named Juanell Dodson, who had nowhere to live and took Marcus's place as Isaiah's apartment-mate, sans adult supervision.
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Season 1 followed the mind games between the con man and the gambler; Season 2, which streams Friday, focuses more on Pete's family, including a memorable turn from the character actress Margo Martindale.
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Her father was a con man, black marketeer and philanderer who deserted the family temporarily when Jenny was 6 — leading her mother to suffer a mental breakdown — and permanently when she was 11.
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Now, it's a very long way from crab cakes and Prosecco, but you should definitely read Carl Elliott on the con-man celebrity surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, in The New York Review of Books.
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Based on Nicholas Searle's 2015 novel, The Good Liar is the story of a con man (Ian McKellen) who scams a woman (Helen Mirren) online, but starts to find himself caring for her.
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" Hollywood producer Tom Colbert organized the investigation and describes Rackstraw, who was arrested in 1978 but later acquitted in the execution-style death of his stepfather as a lifelong "sociopath" and a "con man.
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Is he the kind of tough guy who serves as a champion for red America in its war on nefarious liberal elites, or is he a con man who preys on his own fans?
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He has worked to keep the focus on state issues rather than his history of well-documented feuds with Mr. Trump, whom he called a "con man" and a phony during the 2016 race.
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Today the 69-year-old former con man works as a fraud expert for the FBI and serves as an ambassador for the AARP Fraud Watch Network to raise awareness and prevention of cybercrime.
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Then a couple of weeks ago, as it became clear that Trump was pulling ahead of the pack, Rubio began deriding Trump as a con man with a bad spray tan and small hands.
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" Read: Paul Ryan calls out Trump on KKK Trump continued slinging insults toward Rubio and Cruz, calling Rubio a "con man" and a "little guy," while charging that Cruz has "done nothing for Texas.
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He saves the chapter on his father — an irredeemable grifter and con man — until near the end, leading up to it with a hodgepodge of other tales, some related and others a bit random.
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BAD SANTA 2 The one thing we didn't learn in the first "Bad Santa" movie was just how Willie (Billy Bob Thornton), a hardhearted con man with a truly foul mouth, got that way.
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Mr. McMullin is happy to unload on Mr. Trump, calling him a con man and autocrat who promotes racial tensions, degrades women and disregards the Constitution and basic American ideas about fairness and compassion.
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Giovanni Ribisi plays a con man who gets out of jail and assumes the identity of Pete, his former cellmate, in order to hide from a violent New York gambler played by Bryan Cranston.
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The news: In recent presentations to regulators and law enforcement authorities, Goldman Sachs has depicted Tim Leissner, a former top investment banker, as a master con man, according to people familiar with their contents.
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Then there is Mr. Trump, whom Mr. Rubio once called a dangerous "con man" with "the worst spray tan in America," going so far as to sell "#NeverTrump" bumper stickers on his campaign website.
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That fact didn't count, in the end, but it is good to know that the majority of Americans were not suckered by a con man: the electorate actually opted to live in Clinton's world.
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"Because it's so bold and opposite of what you normally would expect a con man to do, it's probably why it worked," said Trinity Jordan, a former assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted the case.
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Mr. Henry plays the role of naïf but is a con man of the highest order, which is to say, he does an impressive job walking the high wire over his marks' possible disbelief.
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Based on an opening statement leaked Tuesday night, Cohen will confirm evidence that has been accumulating for decades that his former boss -- our current President -- is a con man, a racist and a cheat.
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Enter John Meehan (Eric Bana), a handsome and seemingly successful man who sweeps her off her feet and almost succeeds in hiding the truth from Newell and those around her: he's a con man.
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A teaser for upcoming Bravo series Dirty John reveals exactly how the titular con man John Meehan — played by Eric Bana — will woo Britton's Debra Newell, and it's so disturbing you may never date again.
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In a separate gesture of reconciliation with establishment Republicans, Trump planned to meet with 2012 Republican presidential nomineeMitt Romney, who lambasted Trump as a "con man" and a "fraud" in a stinging speech last March.
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Until a decade ago no politician, merchant or con man had anything like the ability of today's big companies and their customers to put together many little pieces of data to lead and mislead people.
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But on Wednesday, he appeared before the House Oversight Committee in a public hearing to testify that his former boss was a "racist" and a "con man" who committed potentially criminal activity since becoming president.
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There were so many frantic declarations that Trump was a liar/know-nothing/potentially catastrophic con man, and whatever else Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio were throwing at La Grande Orange in Detroit last night.
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The idea evolved after Mr. Good, who was running the bureau's first Long Island office, in Hauppauge, saw a routine F.B.I. memo about Mel Weinberg, a reputed small-time con man operating in the vicinity.
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"One of the reasons I wrote this op-ed was to apologize -- to apologize for the role that I played in putting an unfit con man in the White House," Walsh said on CNN Thursday.
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Hopps follows clue after clue, drawing little connections here and there, and when she's truly stymied, she can turn to her best source — and eventual ad hoc partner — a con man fox named Nick Wilde.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "Trump Embraces Shadowy Plots, Eroding Trust" (news analysis, front page, May 29): Donald Trump is an inept president, but he continues to demonstrate that he is a skillful con man.
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I think one way to think of Trump, even though he is a con man and he is an actor and he's a master manipulator and all that, in a sense he's also a victim.
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"Trump University, more than anything else, proves that Donald Trump is a con man who profited off of other people's misery," said Justin Barasky, the communications director at the pro-Clinton super-PAC Priorities USA.
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Paul Skalnik is a con man and convicted sex offender with an extensive record in two states as a jailhouse snitch who helped prosecutors convict dozens of suspects and send four people to death row.
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Here are the five takeaways from Cohen's appearance: New details, new drama Cohen offered some explosive new allegations — in addition to calling Trump a "racist," a "con man" and a "cheat" in his opening statement.
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He plays this guru con man as an outsider with a man bun, who has a habit of clasping his hands and saying "namaste" even as he embarks upon a stealthy takeover of Orgon's home.
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The new Bravo limited-run TV series "Dirty John" is based on the popular true crime podcast of the same name about a real-life California woman who falls in love with an alleged con man.
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Among them: Jeff Bridges as a con-man pretending to be a priest, the MCU's Chris Hemsworth as a cult leader, Mad Men's Jon Hamm as a vacuum salesman, and Dakota Johnson as a swaggering gangster.
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"Donald Trump is nothing but a con man who will say anything to defraud the American people like he did at Trump University, taking four businesses into bankruptcy or hiring foreign workers over Americans," Pounder said.
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"He is a racist, he is a con man and he is a cheat," said Cohen, who is headed to prison in May for three years after being convicted of tax evasion and lying to Congress.
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But the Clinton campaign's new effort to define Mr. Trump as a con man who rips off the little guy for his own gain will be met with the trickle of new developments related to Mrs.
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He's a con man, who talks endlessly about honesty, who sees his abuse as groovy social nonconformity—and who elides consent by telling the young Jenny that she is a special girl, making bold choices. Mrs.
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By the end, in ways both poignant and troubling, the aging con man began to seem like some twisted version of Nathan, if the host's charm were burned away by the camera, leaving only his shadow.
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First, the decision by the other candidates (especially Rubio) to ease up on Trump in the last debate starkly undercut their prior (if tardy) efforts to brand him as beyond the pale, a con man, etc.
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And as we watch Herold gain confidence in his deception, sliding from fearful fugitive to pitiless con man, we see how the allure of a uniform might sicken its wearer as well as subjugate its followers.
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Mr. Ribisi plays Marius Josipovic, a con man with a sleight of hand so keen that he can beach a whale at the poker table, then, a split-second later, hijack his mark's Rolex and wallet.
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Manson was an aspiring musician and former convict; in this telling, he is also a two-bit lunatic con man, the kind who recurrently pops up in American history selling a dream that becomes a nightmare.
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The two views of Raniere — the world's most ethical man running an extraordinary self-help organization; a con man who empowered women but retained ultimate power for himself — came up often in my conversation with Bouchey.
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" Cohen last week gave testimony to the House Oversight and Reform Committee, during which the former lawyer made a number of explosive claims about Trump's behavior in office, calling the president a "racist" and "con man.
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What emerges from a series of shady, fraudulent activities is the profile of a blackhearted con man, a Dirty John of the bird world — "the Pablo Escobar of the falcon egg trade," as some call him.
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Giovanni Ribisi plays Marius, a con man who assumes the identity of his former cellmate — that would be Pete — and then reunites with Pete's family members, who haven't seen him recently enough to tell the difference.
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Last week, he again testified before Congress that his boss was a "cheat" and a "con man," and provided both testimony and evidence to suggest Trump may have been involved in at least 11 different felonies.
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In steps in a more established con-man named Lawrence who takes Freddy under his wing and the two pick a mark (Janet, a well-off woman visiting the French Riviera), to try and swindle money from.
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SO THIS is how it was to end: a septuagenarian con-man flanked by four victims of sexual assault, real or alleged, trying to intimidate his opponent by dredging up old accusations against her husband, Bill Clinton.
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What Fleiss didn't know is that Corbally was both a private investigator and a con man, an operator who bluffed and intrigued his way through decades, creating his own personal swirl of cocktail parties, nightclubs, and prostitutes.
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But Charles felt used when Gomez wasn't romantically interested in him, and took to social media, punitively using his platform to call Gomez a con man for leading him on just to get a free Coachella trip.
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Although the Newell and Hart women are currently thriving, the fatal tragedy of this tale arrives due to Terra's final confrontation with Meehan, a lifetime con man with a violent streak and a battle with drug addiction.
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You may recognize his name from the 2002 movie " Catch Me If You Can," starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the con man who convinces the world he's everything from an airline pilot to a lawyer to a doctor.
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In August, 1927, Columbus Marion Joiner, a prospector and a rascally con man widely known as Dad, began drilling in East Texas, on the Daisy Bradford lease, which was named for a widow who owned the land.
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And yet suddenly, at the most critical juncture of the race, none of the rivals, who one week ago were happy to call Trump a con man, were willing to implore GOP primary voters to reject him.
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He has called Green the closest thing to a "confessor" in his life, which must be something very important to a man without real parents (le Carré's mother abandoned him and his father was a con-man).
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Turns out, Narayan was little more than a con man, according to an SEC lawsuit filed last month (the lawsuit refers to the three athletes as Clients One, Two, and Three, but an AP report names them).
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Frances is a middle-aged romance novelist who's feeling terrible about herself after her publisher rejected her new manuscript, a reviewer hated her latest book and an online con man broke her heart in a catfishing scam.
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THE PLAYERS BALL A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet's Rise By David Kushner In "The Players Ball," David Kushner's lively re-enactment of the battle to control the web address sex.
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Depicting the spell Manson cast over his followers, Harron and Turner have much to say about the #MeToo movement, white nationalism, the power of denial, and the ability of a gifted con man to exploit the vulnerable.
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" Springsteen hits Trump for his reported distaste for reading in one verse, singing, "And don't you brag to me/That you never read a book/I never put my faith/In a con man and his crooks.
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Musk said that before he sent the "strange that he hasn't sued me" tweet, the con man P.I. had passed false information to an employee (Jared Birchall, who we hear from later) who told Musk about it.
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But to critics like the New York Times's Paul Krugman, Ryan was an obvious con man weaponizing the deficit to hamstring Obama's presidency, weaken the recovery, and snooker Beltway centrists eager to champion a reasonable-seeming Republican.
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Having tried and failed in so many ways to catch fire this campaign season, Mr. Rubio portrayed Mr. Trump as a con man who has tricked Republicans into believing he is an honest businessman and a genuine conservative.
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ANTI-TRUMP DEMOCRAT OUSTED IN SHOCK VOTE IN NEW YORK Video Romney, who lambasted Trump as a "fraud" and a "con man" in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, has softened his tone substantially since then.
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First there was Amazon's Sneaky Pete, which launched in January and depicts a con man who weasels his way into a family of bail bondsmen by impersonating a long-lost, long-imprisoned nephew who nobody's seen in ages.
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The book's conceit is that the Telemachus family, formed when a con man fell for a woman imbued with immense reserves of psychic power, fell into disgrace after a disastrous appearance on a talk show in the '70s.
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The service offers incredibly nichey programming that speaks to my specific tastes, like Alan Tudyk's web series Con Man, Mark Hamill's Pop Culture Quest, and non-original programming like Gene Roddenberry's TV show Andromeda and Earth: Final Conflict.
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Describing Trent as an "abusive con-man," Katherine stated in her initial filing that she tried to fire her nephew — who was also her driver — and order him to move out of her guest house, but he refused.
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Considering the extremely harsh words Romney had for Trump during the campaign, including a nationally televised speech where he repeatedly blasted Trump as a phony a fraud and a con man, this potential partnership seems hard to fathom.
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I also liked that the flashback didn't set out to change Strand as a character — he's still a con man, he's still on a mission, he still couldn't give two flying noodles about the people on the boat.
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And it looks at how simple framing can create strong emotional impressions, like the window blinds across the screen box in Catch Me If You Can's captured con-man Frank Abagnale as strongly as window bars in prison.
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A moment of lightness, if you please: Temporarily relieved from con-man duty, Frank the accomplice-in-chief spends the episode spellchecking Word docs and cooking up a Mexican-Italian storm for everyone able to consume solid foods.
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It throws out ideas about life, death, and denial, but they never really coalesce into a cohesive thought, while its second half turns into an odd con-man movie that milks an obvious twist for far too long.
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Then he began applying hair gel and wearing blazers and business suits, a costume inspired by "Remington Steele," the TV show that starred Pierce Brosnan as a con man who assumes the identity of a glamorous private detective.
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Romney led the "Never Trump" movement during the 2900 GOP primary and denounced the president as "a con man" and "a fake," calling on him to release his tax returns in a speech in March of that year.
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" A shadowy Mr. Trump, his head tilted back and his gaze downward, appears over a Boston Herald headline of "Con Man Trump" as Colonel Hanton begs the viewer to "learn about Donald Trump," whom he calls a "phony.
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Whatever. It works for him, and maybe I'm a sucker but these flickers — which might just be eye ticks thanks to his con man character's vast palette of colored contracts — could be enough to keep me tuning in.
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The prosecutor, Tanya Hajjar, went on to tell the jury that although Mr. Raniere had presented Nxivm as an organization that was meant to empower people, he was a "con man" interested only in controlling others, particularly women.
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And which of the men in her life — Eric (Frederick Weller), her con-man boyfriend; Joel (Garrett Hedlund), the striving artist living in her barn; or one of the scheming high-rollers on her mountaintop — did the deed?
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There was just one problem: The man calling himself Prince Khalid Bin Al-Saud — to his wealthy neighbors and business partners who had handed him millions of dollars in investments — was actually a con-man named Anthony Gignac.
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And that put The New York Times on a collision course with Netley Lucas, a British writer and con man who had made a successful career out of describing in the first person crimes he had never committed.
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Filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (Jesus Camp, One of Us) explore the stories of a shockingly high number of women who were all aggressively courted — and in many cases, married — by a con man with multiple aliases.
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"Fake psychic; real visions": that's how Les Bohem pitched his pulpy new series starring Jeffrey Donovan ("Burn Notice") as Charlie, a con-man fortune teller who, after a blow to the head, starts having episodes of actual clairvoyance.
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"Your former lawyer Michael Cohen, who worked for you for 10 years, his office right next to yours, right by yours at Trump Tower — he called you a liar, a con man, a racist," ABC's Jonathan Karl said.
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And the man pictured was likely not a con man with an elaborate way of doing laundry for free, but a guy a Facebook user wanted to embarrass by distributing his photo and name across the scam-weary web.
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The show, which debuted Friday, follows a recently released con man Marius (played by Giovanni Ribisi), who assumes the identity of his cellmate Pete in order to escape urban kingpin Vince (played by Cranston) to whom he owes $100,000.
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Over the last three days, Trump University was revealed as a scam, Trump's fundraiser for veterans was revealed as a sham, and Hillary Clinton delivered a speech portraying him as a con man who would usher in the Apocalypse.
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"First Person" takes as its inspiration John Friedrich, the famous con man who embezzled a few hundred thousand Deutchmarks in his native West Germany, faked his own death, then reappeared in Melbourne in the 1970s under a new name.
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Unmoved by events downtown, this narrator rails against a bus driver, the clerks at the Morningside Heights post office and the idiots (himself included) who have unknowingly handed over their life savings to a far more successful con man.
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The movie is based on the real-life Billionaire Boys Club, a group of wealthy young men in 1980s Los Angeles who ran a Ponzi scheme and wound up getting involved with shady investor/con man Ron Levin (Spacey).
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It was conceived in both bad faith and bad taste, as part of a collaboration between Billy McFarland, a 20-something con man from New Jersey, the beached middle-aged rapper Ja Rule, and a fleet of Instagram influencers.
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In his willingness to lay blame directly at Mr. Trump's feet, and to categorically denounce the president as a "racist" and a "con man," Cohen delivered a wealth of head-turning sound bites, and the hosts pounced on them.
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Better Call Saul's first season ended with Jimmy seemingly deciding he wasn't going to join a big law firm in Santa Fe, humming "Smoke on the Water" (the anthem of his con man days) and driving off into Albuquerque.
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While Dirty John's titular con man John Meehan (Eric Bana) targeted one woman at a time, Seduced By Evil's villain, Derek Alldred, managed to have relationships with multiple women in order to drain their savings and support his life of lies.
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At the reunion, host Andy Cohen likened Gunvalson's relationship with Ayers to Dirty John — the popular L.A. Times true crime podcast turned Bravo scripted series about con man John Meehan and his manipulative and destructive relationship with California businesswoman Debra Newell.
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A 260 Texas Monthly story captures this mentality well: For 219 days federal agents camped outside the compound, paralyzed by their own ineptitude, while this notorious liar and con man was permitted to broadcast his incoherent message to the world.
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I could go on about what a mess Valley of the Boom is, and if I did, I would write that Steve Zahn's con man character Michael Fenne, who founded Pixelon, should have been axed at the script conception stage.
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Such figures are something of a staple in popular culture: think of the champagne-chicanery of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby; Frank Abagnale, Leonardo DiCaprio's charismatic con-man in "Catch Me if You Can"; or the glitzy characters in "American Hustle".
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In our story about the convicted health care con man David Williams, we detailed how the Texas personal trainer made off with millions by billing some of the nation's largest health insurers as if he were a doctor providing medical services.
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Real footage from the game show To Tell the Truth shows real con man Frank Abagnale pretending to be a pilot on a game show in which contestants pretend to be someone else and only one person is telling the truth.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York lawyer was sentenced on Thursday to six months in prison for participating in a fraudulent scheme in which a con man impersonated his successful father in order to raise money to buy Maxim magazine.
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In 2016, he was the figure funneling internal Trump polling to an alleged Russian intelligence agent, and one of the figures liaising with fascistic con-man Roger Stone in coordinating events surrounding Wikileaks' dump of Democratic emails, initially swiped by Moscow.
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But the hell of our political process is the brevity of so many Americans' memories and the shallowness of their engagement, which could be a final stroke of outrageously good fortune for a con man who has been too lucky already.
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Directed by Walter Hill The Buddies The grizzled San Francisco cop Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) bails Eddie Murphy's flashy con man Reggie Hammond out of prison for two days to help him catch the cop-killing members of his old gang.
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But the cult of balance requires that someone on the Republican side be portrayed as a serious, honest fiscal expert, so Mr. Ryan gets slotted into that role no matter how much a con man he may be in reality.
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In an uncharacteristically pointed speech in March, Mr. Romney, who has been one of Mr. Trump's most strident Republican critics, called the New York businessman a "phony" and a "con man" and criticized his disparaging comments about Mexican immigrants and Muslims.
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Nor had I heard him this harsh on Trump, whom he reiterated was a "con man" — someone who is "selling this character of Donald Trump who is in no way the reality of Donald Trump," and had been his entire life.
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Did Mr. Trump participate in corrupt transactions, likely making him dishonest as well as a con man, or did he have nothing to do with his family's complex financial transactions that were the foundation of his wealth, which suggests incompetence?
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Joe Walsh is calling for a primary challenger to take on President Donald Trump in 2020, as he is reckoning with his past controversial comments and apologizing for his role in helping elect an "unfit con man" to the presidency.
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Mr. Walsh, who supported Mr. Trump in 2016 and ran as a former disciple who had seen the light, became a regular presence on cable news channels, calling Mr. Trump an "unfit con man" and a danger to the country.
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" As for the future of the Republican Party, Rubio warned on Friday that "the Republican Party would be split apart if he became the nominee, because we cannot allow the party of Reagan to be taken over by a con man.
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Bryan Cranston and Graham Yost ("Justified") are behind this series about a con man (Giovanni Ribisi) who is released from prison and stumbles into an opportunity: pretending to be his former cellmate, whose family is in the bail-bond business.
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The producers also interview a number of former cult members and survivors of the standoff, as well as third parties who identify Koresh as a "con man," taking control over the Branch Davidians after striking up a relationship with their leader.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 0%Summary: "Deadfall" is a crime drama about a New Yorker (Michael Biehn) who loses his con-man father and travels across the country to find his father's identical twin in an effort to complete a sting operation.
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While "Teambuilding Exercise" paints Erlich's request as the whims of a ludicrous con man, categorizing images of food on the internet not so different than annotating an email exchange or observing a stranger conversing with a Facebook chatbot about ordering a burrito.
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"After everything Donald Trump said about him, after Donald Trump beat him by 20 points (in Florida), after Marco Rubio called Donald Trump a con man and said he couldn't be trusted with the nuclear codes, Marco Rubio still endorsed him," he said.
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It's the second series from Wondery that UCP has in the works: Dirty John, the predecessor to Dr. Death about a con man whose scam ends in bloodshed, received a two-season order at Bravo with Connie Britton in a lead role.
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" In a statement, the group's president, Brad Woodhouse, said of Trump: "He is a shameful, greedy, in-it-for-himself con man who made money off of manipulating and bullying his 'students' into shelling out more and more cash for nothing in return.
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The Florida U.S. senator, who is on a scorched-earth campaign to discredit Trump as a "con man," will face his biggest test on March 15 when his home state votes in a winner-take-all primary with 99 delegates at stake.
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Smiley is nowhere in sight: The book, whose complex structure alternates scenes from the past and present, is about an English traitor named Magnus Pym and his vexed relationship with his con-man father, Rick (modeled on Mr. le Carré's own dad, Ronnie).
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Cohen said Trump is a "racist" and a "con man" who knew in advance about WikiLeaks' plans to publish stolen Democrats' emails during the election and secretly reimbursed him for hush-money payments made to a porn star after entering the White House.
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Park's adaptation of Sarah Waters' terrific 22014 novel Fingersmith preserves some of the story — a poor young pickpocket is enlisted as a maid to help a con man seduce a rich young heiress — but Park transplants it from Victorian England to 20163s Korea.
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The speaker of the House used to be a media darling, lionized as the epitome of the Serious, Honest Conservative — never mind those of us who actually looked at the numbers in his budgets and concluded that he was a con man.
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Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who needed—and for the most got—a strong night Thursday, turned his attacks away from Trump's hands and "con man" personality, and toward his platform policy proposals, essentially arguing that the frontrunner's plans don't actually add up.
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When a con man entangled with the family dredges up information about Deborah's childhood, she learns to her horror that her sister, who she knew had been sent to an asylum as a child, had died there alone at the age of 15.
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I never read books like "Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married": high-concept books with one-word titles, subtitles that tell you everything you need to know about them and a single, Gladwellian image on the cover.
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It's reminiscent of the cheesy 1992 movie "The Distinguished Gentleman," in which Eddie Murphy, a con man, wins a special congressional election in South Florida running an underground campaign because his name — Jeff Johnson — is identical to that of the deceased congressman.
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When Veronica, reconceived as the daughter of a Bernie Madoff-like con man, snarks at her mean-girl rival, Cheryl Blossom, "You may be a stock character from a nineties teen movie, but I'm not," it feels not so much knowing as damning.
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Mr. Walsh, who made his name as part of the Tea Party movement and supported Mr. Trump in 2016 before concluding that he was a "con man," had hoped his defection would encourage other Republicans to follow, our colleague Annie Karni wrote.
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Trump had already seized on new doubts about the credibility of his former lawyer Michael Cohen, who branded the President a con man and a liar in a sensational Capitol Hill hearing last week, but who is facing new accusations of perjury.
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Michael Cohen, his former personal lawyer and fixer, will testify today before lawmakers that Mr. Trump is a "con man" and a "cheat" who knew an adviser was communicating with WikiLeaks about the release of Democratic emails that were hacked by Russia.
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Tatum O'Neal in Paper Moon: Winner, Best Supporting Actress, 22019 Though her dad, Ryan O'Neal, was a pretty famous actor at the time, Tatum hadn't ever acted before Peter Bogdanovich cast her at age 8 to play the daughter of a Depression-era con man.
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This year's latest gender-swapped remake is The Hustle, which turns Dirty Rotten Scoundrels — a comedy about a classy con man and small-time hustler competing to scam a mark — into a film about two women working together to con bad (and rich) men.
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And secondly, of course, while this was going on and the drama back in Washington, your former lawyer Michael Cohen who worked for you for ten years, his office right by yours at trump tower, he called you a liar, a con man, a racist.
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But in sworn testimony before the House Oversight Committee on February 20163th, and armed with documents to bolster several striking accusations, Mr Cohen called his former boss "a racist…a con man [and] a cheat" who is "fundamentally disloyal" and a threat to American democracy.
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"Je Compte sur Vous" – released in English as "Thank You for Calling" – is based on the exploits of the French-Israeli con man Gilbert Chikli, who engineered rogue payments by phoning companies and pretending to be the firm's CEO or a French intelligence agent.
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Weeks after calling Trump a con man, and saying the thought of supporting Trump in the general election was "getting harder every day," Rubio said Trump's "performance has improved significantly," and suggested he will help unite the party if Trump wins the GOP nomination.
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Choosing the former will result in the Democratic establishment still calling the shots—when they no longer have a right to even have a seat at the table—and another corporate, milk-toast Democratic presidential candidate to face the con-man-in-chief in 2020.
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Cohen, 52, who served by Trump's side as a Trump Organization executive and personal attorney for more than a decade, will call the president a "racist," a "cheat" and a "con man," according to a copy of his prepared remarks obtained by NBC News.
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Ben Jones (Peter Krause) The expert con man went through a huge evolution through season 1 by attempting to steal everything from him mark-slash-fiancée, feeling bad about it, breaking good, and eventually helping Alice bring down his shady crime operation, the Kensington Firm.
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He was 2106 at the time, according to the authorities, a con man with a history of schemes spanning decades and regions of the country, as well as an array of aliases, props and promises — and a knack for getting people to open their wallets.
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Even though it was his mother who sneaked out when he was 5 and didn't contact him for 16 years, le Carré's fixation is on the "con man, fantasist, occasional jailbird" whom he refers to, with an admixture of distance and familiarity, as Ronnie.
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In it, a young Korean woman and a con man conspire to bilk a young Japanese heiress out of her considerable fortune by having the young woman pose as the heiress's new handmaiden — so she can assist in the con man's seduction of the heiress.
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And he wasn't a hippie, but a con man who deliberately appropriated the trappings of hippie culture — mainly to manipulate vulnerable women caught up in the countercultural lifestyle, and then use those women to further manipulate his way into positions of power and influence.
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The premise — about a con man who's pretending to be somebody else to ingratiate himself to a family of bail bondsmen he thinks he can scam — is exactly what you'd expect from a broadcast network trying to make its own version of Breaking Bad.
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The central role of Marius, the con man who adopts the identity of "Pete" for his long con, is played by Giovanni Ribisi, probably best known for his film work, and he essentially gives Marius a character arc that's barely suggested on the page.
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It's the whole story of Paul Ryan's career: journalists trying to be centrists desperately wanted to show their neutrality by praising a Serious, Honest, Conservative, and promoted Ryan into that role even though it was obvious from the beginning that he was a con man.
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In fact the book almost takes on the shadow of a novel in which Marco the hardened con man seems to play the long game in an attempt to convince Cercas that, despite his "mistakes" and "errors," he is somehow more than a memory thief.
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LONDON — A 000-year-old con man with 28 convictions pleaded guilty to fraud on Thursday for having tried to collect 12,500 pounds, or about $16,000, in financial assistance by falsely claiming that his family had died in the Grenfell Tower fire in London.
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At the same time, the conditions for psychological exploitation were fairly ripe — something Ray, described by his former friend and former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik as a "psychotic con man" — likely knew, or figured out soon enough, if the allegations are true.
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Suzan-Lori Parks's Pulitzer Prize-winning 2001 play "Topdog/Underdog" features a fractious pair of thirty-something African-American brothers named Lincoln and Booth, a presidential impersonator and a con man who — abandoned by their parents — feint, duck, then strike each other, circling the hurt.
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VATICAN CITY, Feb 29 (Reuters) - Pope Francis told members of a disgraced religious order on Saturday they must renounce the legacy of their founder and acknowledge he was a con-man who sold the "illusion" of holiness while living a double life as a paedophile.
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"Larry Ray is a psychotic con man who has victimized every friend he's ever had," Mr. Kerik, who has said he cut ties with Mr. Ray in 22006, was quoted as saying in the 2165 New York magazine article that prompted the government's investigation.
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Go inside the twisted mind of the con man known as Clark Rockefeller, and see how he finally meets his match, on an ALL NEW episode of "Deadly Rich" — from the producers of "American Greed" — Monday, August 7 at 10pm ET/PT only on CNBC.
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"Marco Rubio is all of a sudden talking a lot about Donald Trump as a con man and it's getting a lot of play in national news coverage," said Packer, who supports Rubio but says she has received no payments from the Florida senator's campaign.
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Others describe him as a cash-strapped "con man" who according to South Dakota public records has at least seven court judgments totaling $421,212 against him and his companies since 2003, a fraud with an overblown sense of importance who, like Butina, was a compulsive networker.
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The Bernie Madoff of his time, Wright was a financier/con man who bounced between England and New York bilking people out of their money by any means necessary—speculating in the silver, mining, and oil industries, seeking investment for numerous companies, selling shares to raise capital.
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I'll admit, I thought this one was going to be boring because it starts out with a romance between two people with very white hair, but it quickly turns into a tense thriller about a con man trying to pull one over on a particularly wealthy woman.
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"I stand by the things that I said" during the campaign, the Florida senator told CNN's Jake Tapper on "The Lead," referring to his past criticisms of the presumptive nominee, including calling him a "con man" and saying he shouldn't be given access to nuclear codes.
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The French movie "Je Compte sur Vous" – released in English as "Thank You for Calling" – is based on the exploits of the French-Israeli con man Gilbert Chikli, who engineered rogue payments by phoning companies and pretending to be the firm's CEO or a French intelligence agent.
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James O'Keefe: Notorious con artist But first, for those of you unfamiliar with James O'Keefe and his misnamed "Project Veritas," here's a helpful recap: James O'Keefe is a notorious con man whose infamy arises from his addiction to pulling the same media stunts, over and over again.
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" Patton garnered broad attention on Wednesday after appearing at a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing as a show of support for the president as his former longtime lawyer and "fixer" Michael Cohen testified against his onetime boss, casting him as a "racist" and "con man.
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They called him a madman, a con man, a cancer and worse during an ugly nominating fight, but in the week since Donald J. Trump became the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, many of his former rivals and members of the party's establishment are already softening on him.
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Cohen, who worked for nearly a decade as the president's longtime attorney and "fixer," testified last week to lawmakers that his former boss was a "con man" and a "racist" who engaged in potentially criminal conduct during the 2016 presidential campaign and while in the White House.
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But here's the thing: the manner in which Tyler joined the crew was so damn shady: in episode 5, he was found in a Klingon cell with notorious con man Harry Mudd (Rainn Wilson, a bright spot in a season that was at least well cast).
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The cynicism of today's G.O.P. could not have been more vividly displayed than when Marco Rubio, John Kasich (a decent guy) and Ted Cruz all declared that they would support the party's nominee, even if it was Trump, right after telling voters he was a con man.
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They included a Saudi prince teaming with a Singaporean billionaire, an Israeli speculator who carved up the hotel into condominiums and retail spaces, and an Indian con man who negotiated his financial exit from the most evil-smelling hospitality suite in the world, Delhi's notorious Tihar Jail.
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Joe WalshJoe WalshTrump glides to victory in Super Tuesday GOP primaries Boston Globe endorses Trump's GOP challenger Bill Weld Joe Walsh: 'I'd rather have a socialist in the White House than a con man' MORE (R-Ill.) suspended his campaign after a poor showing in Iowa.
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Mr. Chikli, a swaggering Franco-Israeli con man whose life was the subject of a movie — the actress Julie Gayet, Mr. Hollande's partner, played Mr. Chikli's wife — was sentenced in 2015 to seven years in prison and one million euros in fines for a similar scam.
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Though the story continues to unfold and Ray is scheduled to appear in court to be held accountable for what he's done, a former FBI informant summed up Ray's case best: "Larry Ray is a psychotic con man who has victimized every friend he's ever had."
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Cohen testified publicly before the House Oversight and Reform Committee last week, calling his former boss a "racist" and a "con man" in prepared remarks to lawmakers while answering questions from Democrats that appeared to open the door to further congressional investigations of the president's finances.
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Mr. Cartwright wrote a 1998 memoir about his life-changing heart attack ("HeartWiseGuy"), mused in print about the con man who was the best man at his wedding (his second of four) and described his sex life as an elderly man in the pages of Texas Monthly.
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"This trial has revealed that Raniere, who portrayed himself as a savant and a genius, was in fact a massive manipulator, a con man, and the crime boss of a cult-like organization involved in sex trafficking, child pornography, extortion, compelled abortions, branding, degradation and humiliation," he said.
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Of note: He "you people's" the Rev (Yul Vazquez) and Manfred when the former offers the latter's service in helping find her with his "intuitive" abilities, but just one scene earlier, Connor described Manfred as "the town con man," as if the townies don't understand what a medium does.
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The concept still sounds funny: Willie (Billy Bob Thornton) is as terrible as ever, living a dissipate life in a sad little apartment, and his old con man sidekick Marcus (Tony Cox), who double-crossed him at the end of Bad Santa, rings him up with a new plan.
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He's a man Alice and her co-workers refer to as Mr. X, a masterfully manipulative con man who wormed his way inside her trust bubble and bursts it wide open just days before they were set to get married — and makes off with $1.5 million of her money.
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If president is not actually a successful businessman but the world's most famous con man, that seems like relevant information for voters to have going into his reelection campaign—and Democrats could help figure out the answer to that question by finally forcing him to release his tax returns.
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In the clip, viewers get a sneak peek at how the whirlwind romance between lonely businesswoman and mother Debra Newell (Connie Britton) and the charismatic con-man John Meehan (Eric Bana) kicks off — from their first blind date in Newport Beach to their quick trip down the aisle.
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This past week, old pictures of Mr. Bloomberg and Donald J. Trump, in golf hats, surfaced on the internet to remind us that despite the former mayor's evisceration of the candidate as a dangerous demagogue, a con man and a lazy heir, wealth is essentially a clubby place.
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Well, now that we know that your candidate is no great businessman — that he's no better than a con man whom no would trust to watch his or her daughter, much less watch the country — I must ask you, Ms. Conway: Have you left no sense of decency?
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"Con man sweet-talked its way to the top of our lookups on February 85033th, 2019, following reports that Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former lawyer, planned on using this term as a descriptor of his erstwhile client in testimony to be given before Congress later today," Merriam-Webster wrote.
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The book tracks his struggles as a civilian; his incredible and rapid rise during the Civil War; his unexpected fall at the hands of the con man Ferdinand Ward, the 19th century's Bernie Madoff; and, eventually, the writing of his memoirs, one of the greatest works of American literature.
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"Monty had to be a very likable con man; he had to convince people to give up a bird in the hand for what's in the box," David Schwartz, the author, with Fred Wostbrock and Steve Ryan, of "The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows," said in an interview.
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But I guess this is what you have to expect when you hand over the reins of power to a con man, whose whole career has been based on convincing naïve marks that he's a brilliant deal maker, but turns out to have no idea how to actually govern.
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Among the attacks: accusing one California Democrat of being "shady" by enriching himself on Chinese "sweatshops," calling an Illinois Democrat a "corporate con man," alleging that a New Jersey Democrat lobbied for "terrorist rights" -- and tying several to Republicans' favorite target: House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California.
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Nothing is run-of-the-mill about the life of Jeremy Wilson, a career con man who often pretends to be a war veteran to pull off his schemes, and his two-week trial in New York on charges of forgery and possession of stolen property was no exception.
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Meanwhile, Wes and Laurel are making out in a random rental car, having jetted off to Ohio — ostensibly so they can dig deeper into his connection with the Mahoney murder trial, but really so that Laurel can avoid the sinking feeling that she's dating a con man just like her father.
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Before he ever played a sex-addicted con man in the adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's Choke or went mad while stuck in space in the critically-acclaimed Moon, Sam Rockwell, as Charlie's Angels' villain and global communications entrepreneur Eric Knox, slid a CD into a CD player and pressed play.
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Told of Mr. Trump's noncommittal comment, Stuart Stevens, a senior adviser to Mitt Romney in 2012 who has become one of Mr. Trump's most vocal critics, said that Mr. Trump was "a con man who is shocked his con hasn't been called" and that he was looking for an emergency exit.
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So, don't call him "moron" or "idiot;" call him what he is: a conniving, corrupt con man, a dangerous, divisive demagogue -- and, most sobering of all, the man who carried 30 states in the last election, and may well do it again if Democrats don't focus their fire more effectively.
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He's a real jerk and deserves whatever he gets, so let's not shed any tears when Glen McClinton, a disbarred lawyer and two-bit con man ("Bernie Madoff, c'est moi"), hooks up with Stan Hasso ("a crook with a certain code of ethics") to hustle the tycoon out of $20 million.
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"This trial has revealed that Raniere, who portrayed himself as a savant and a genius, was in fact, a master manipulator, a con man and the crime boss of a cult-like organization," said Richard P. Donoghue, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, right after the verdict was made.
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Stars Bryan Cranston, who played teacher turned drug kingpin Walter White in the Emmy-winning "Breaking Bad," on Thursday joined co-star Aaron Paul and Bob Odenkirk, who plays con-man Jimmy McGill in the "Better Call Saul" prequel to mark the 10th anniversary of the "Breaking Bad" series that ended in 2013.
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A show called Impossible Science will explore how new technologies can reproduce effects performed during a magic show, a show called Her Universe will essentially be Project Runway for "geek couture," and a scripted comedy called Kings of Con basically sounds like another take on Con Man, but without the former Firefly stars.
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A bigoted, ignorant, temperamental, clueless con man and fascist authoritarian-in-training who has muzzled the scientific community and ignores all evidence to insist that climate change is not real is sitting in the Oval Office, systematically and gleefully whisking away the rights—and futures—of millions of people with every pen stroke.
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There's no place in our politics for personal attacks like that, and I regret making them," Walsh wrote in the op-ed, adding on CNN that one of the reasons he wrote the piece was "to apologize for the role that I played in putting an unfit con man in the White House.
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Near the end of the hit podcast "Dirty John," a super-creepy true story about a predatory Southern California con man and one of the women he targeted, the reporter Christopher Goffard poses a question that's been hanging for six episodes: What made John Meehan, a handsome, athletic nurse anesthesiologist, Dirty John?
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Hillary Clinton's campaign on Wednesday looked to take up the mantle of Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio, who once denounced Donald Trump as a "con man," kicking off a series of tweets hitting the presumptive GOP nominee for his business practices with Trump University by employing his fellow Republicans' words against him.
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Filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (Jesus Camp, One of Us) explore the stories of a shockingly high number of women who were all aggressively courted — and in many cases, married — by a con man with multiple aliases whom, over the course of the four-part documentary series, they start to track down.
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WASHINGTON — Michael D. Cohen plans to tell Congress on Wednesday that President Trump is a "con man" and a "cheat" who knew a longtime adviser was communicating with WikiLeaks — and who implicitly instructed Mr. Cohen to lie about a Trump Tower project in Moscow that was underway during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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After that, more than once, Trump raised the prospect of a public apology from Romney -- who in a speech in Utah had called Trump "a con man, a fake and a phony" who was "playing us for suckers," and had afterward attacked Trump on Twitter and courted Republicans to launch a third-party campaign.
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Since the Republican debate on Thursday in Houston, Mr. Rubio, the junior senator from Florida, has taken a hatchet to the core of the Trump mystique, casting him as a "con man" with a huckster's business record — a figure who would be "selling watches" on the streets of Manhattan if not for his father's wealth.
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It is not hard to see why an episode of "Reply All", another Gimlet show, in which a medical con man implanted goat testicles into impotent men, attracted the attention of Hollywood heavyweights Richard Linklater and Robert Downey Jr. But studio executives should take the nature of the podcast into consideration before snapping up rights.
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"Tonight, with our country under an unprecedented assault by a con man who fights only for himself and degrades the vulnerable and the powerless and regular hardworking people day in and day out, I believe that we must honestly ask ourselves as a party whether those we fight for can afford our gentleness," he said.
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And then, true to form—like the Balrog's whip catching Gandalf by his little gray bootie, like the husband in a Lifetime movie hissing "If I can't have you, no one can"— white American voters and the electoral college and a few Russian troll farms shoved an incompetent, racist con man into the White House.
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He looked like if Joseph Stalin was an amateur curler and was a shameless con man for his use of a government funded employee for his theater company by having me fix a hole in the roof of his garage ("We keep some props in here, so it's fine," was how he justified it).
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In recent presentations to American regulators and law enforcement authorities, according to people familiar with their contents, Goldman executives and their lawyers have depicted Tim Leissner, a former top investment banker, as a master con man, someone so sneaky that even the retired military intelligence officers who work for the bank couldn't sniff him out.
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C.) and Joe WalshJoe WalshBoston Globe endorses Trump's GOP challenger Bill Weld Joe Walsh: 'I'd rather have a socialist in the White House than a con man' Limbaugh on Buttigieg: 'America's still not ready to elect a gay guy kissing his husband on the debate stage' MORE (R-Ill.), have already ended their campaigns.
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"The trial has revealed that Raniere, who portrayed himself as a savant and a genius, was in fact a master manipulator, a con man and the crime boss of a cult-like organization involving sex trafficking, child pornography, extortion, compelled abortion, branding, degradation and humiliation," Richard Donoghue, the U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn, told reporters outside of the courthouse.
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"Donald Trump is a con man who takes money from his charity to cover his own legal fees, takes money from his campaign donors to enrich his own businesses, and takes talking points from the biggest polluters in the country to slap together his disastrous energy positions," Khalid Pitts, the Sierra Club's political director, said in a statement.
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Read more:36 criminal suspects have used Trump's name in connection with violent acts or threatsIvanka Trump and her brother Don Jr. are staking opposite sides in the gun control debate — and the president calls Don Jr. his 'gun expert'A former Republican congressman just apologized for helping put 'an unfit con man in the White House'
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In England the date is 9.11 woke up after this show and yooooooo WTF.... What The Actual Fuck I swear this ain't real now I believe we actually living in the matrix Who'd have thought that a white con man with a marketing budget would thrive in an network engineered to service the needs of advertisers?
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"This whole idea that he was an outsider and going to destroy the political establishment and drain the swamp were the lines of a con man, and guess what — he is being exposed as just that," said Peter Wehner, who served in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush before becoming a speechwriter for George W. Bush.
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By the time Cercas makes the forensic discovery that resolves his persistent doubt about what to think of Marco's story, the con man has driven the novelist to wonder if — as a novelist, a writer of fiction — he is some kind of impostor himself, although his obsession with this idea can sometimes seem a tired postmodern touch.
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A year earlier, New York State censors had banned distribution of "The Miracle," a magnificent short Italian film (part of "L'Amore"), directed by Roberto Rossellini, in which a dreamy girl (Anna Magnani), who believes herself to be the Virgin Mary, has an encounter with a con man (Federico Fellini), calling himself St. Joseph, and becomes pregnant.
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And media outlets' approach to covering race is frustrating some prominent journalists of color at a time when Trump's language — as he recently called a civil rights leader a "con man" and referring to a predominantly black district, which includes much of Baltimore, as a "disgusting rat and rodent infested mess" this week — is threatening to define the campaign.
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"So in the 240th year of the independence of the United States, in three states by 78,000 votes, the American people by a fluke elected an imbecilic former reality TV show host and con man whose only affinity for reading anything were the Adolf Hitler speeches he kept on his night stand," Schmidt told co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
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Cohen, who once vowed to "take a bullet" for Trump but now calls him a "con man," checked into the Federal Correctional Institution in Otisville, New York, about 70 miles (110 km) northwest of New York City, to serve his sentence for arranging hush payments to two women who said they had sexual encounters with Trump, financial crimes and lying to Congress.
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Trump is now facing a barrage of political attacks over his Trump University program: The real estate developer's rivals for the White House are using there controversy to portray him as an untrustworthy "con man," even as at least one well-funded political non-profit has fielded TV ads trashing Trump for allegedly fleecing unsuspecting participants in the training effort.
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René Auberjonois, a sought-after character actor whose hundreds of roles included a governor's officious assistant in "Benson," an alien security officer on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," a managing partner in "Boston Legal" and a con man who gets Huck Finn into hot water in the Broadway musical "Big River," died on Sunday at his home in Los Angeles.
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Former Trump students have already been featured in campaign ads accusing the candidate of defrauding ordinary people, and when a judge's order earlier this week led to hundreds of pages of court documents being released—including damning testimony from Trump U employees—Hillary Clinton and other Trump foes jumped on the chance to portray the would-be president as a sleazy con man.
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But what I love about it is the way simply making the romantic relationship at its center be between two women — instead of the more frequently told tale of a con man falling in love with an heiress he means to rip off — opens up all sorts of emotional material in the story that a more traditional tale wouldn't have been able to get to.
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" Conway, husband of White House counselor Kellyanne ConwayKellyanne Elizabeth ConwayTrump embarks on Twitter spree amid impeachment inquiry, Syria outrage The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden camp faces new challenges Trump offers condolences on frequent foe Cummings: 'Very hard, if not impossible, to replace' MORE and a frequent critic of the president, did not mince his words Wednesday afternoon, calling Trump a "sociopath" and a "con man.
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The full record provides a vivid picture of how jailhouse informants are used, showing which benefits Skalnik was afforded, which crimes he eluded punishment for and, most clearly, how the state attorney's office put this witness, who was dubbed "a con man extraordinaire," in the words of one warrant for his arrest, on the stand in cases where defendants' lives hung in the balance.
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Oh, sure, there are some distractions along the way, like a lengthy prologue set in the times of King Arthur — who was a real dude in the Transformers universe — that is mostly notable for its choice to cast the great Stanley Tucci as Drunk Merlin, a goofy con man who accidentally stumbles upon a downed Transformer ship and makes it the source of his magic.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE on Friday sought to undermine the credibility of his former personal attorney Michael Cohen, who delivered explosive testimony on Capitol Hill depicting the president as a "racist" and "con man" who engaged in criminality.
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Watch it herePlot synopsis: A con man on the run from a vicious gangster takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, "reuniting" with Pete's estranged family, a colorful, dysfunctional group that threatens to drag him into a world just as dangerous as the one he's trying to escape — and, just maybe, give him a taste of the loving family he's never had.
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You could tell the history of Western culture with such instances of skeptical rationalism and imaginative empathy, from Aeschylus' Clytemnestra and Euripides' Medea, to Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth and Richard III, Milton's Lucifer, Mary Shelley's Dr. Frankenstein, Balzac's master-criminal Vautrin, Dostoyevsky's amoral superman Raskolnikov, Joseph Conrad's terrorists, Thomas Mann's con man Felix Krull, Andre Gide's coldblooded murderer, Albert Camus's helpless murderer — to take a relative handful of examples.
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The now-disbarred lawyer slammed the president as a "racist" and a "con man" who was engaged in a bevy of financial crimes and aware of Roger StoneRoger Jason Stone85033 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Judge rejects Stone's request to dismiss charges Judge dismisses DNC lawsuit against Trump campaign, Russia over election interference MORE's efforts to coordinate with WikiLeaks on a dump of embarrassing Democratic documents during the presidential election.
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Daniel Harnsberger, who wrestles for Appalachian Mountain Wrestling as "The Progressive Liberal" Daniel Richards, teases fans in Kentucky and nearby states by calling for more gun control, ripping President Trump as "con man" and wearing shirts adorned with photos of Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE.
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Merriam-Webster announced Wednesday that searches for "con man" had surged by as much as 800 percent as President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's former attorney Michael Cohen testified before the House Oversight and Reform Committee.
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One of Cummings's most moving lines came during that same February hearing when Trump's former lawyer and personal fixer, Michael CohenMichael Dean CohenTrump offers condolences on frequent foe Cummings: 'Very hard, if not impossible, to replace' Elijah Cummings, Democratic chairman and powerful Trump critic, dies at 68 Schiff says committees will eventually make impeachment inquiry transcripts public MORE, testified to lawmakers that the president is a "racist" and a "con man" who broke the law.
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Michael CohenMichael Dean CohenCapitol Police advised Gaetz against holding open events I'm not a Nazi, I'm just a dude: What it's like to be the other Steve King Wyden blasts FEC Republicans for blocking probe into NRA over possible Russia donations MORE, the president's former attorney, returns to Congress today to testify again, a week after a congressional hearing in which he savaged Donald Trump as a racist, philanderer, con man, cheat and, yes, a crook.
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They've enjoyed the character of Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE so much that they can't seem to contemplate the fact that he's truly nothing more than a con man — a spectacle for the masses — the Joker of our times, who would light the world afire just to see it burn.
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Mr. Shear says those who know Mr. Romney say he has "a sense of service, partly because of his Mormon faith but also a sense that he wants to serve the country," Given how fiercely Mr. Romney condemned Mr. Trump during the campaign — calling him a phony, a con man, a fraud — Mr. Shear is just as intrigued by the opposite question: not why Mr. Romney would put himself through this process, but why Mr. Trump would even offer him the job.
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He made waves on Capitol Hill last week when he slammed Trump as a "racist" and a "con man" during his testimony, alleging that the president was connected to a series of financial crimes and was aware that GOP operative Roger StoneRoger Jason Stone85033 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Judge rejects Stone's request to dismiss charges Judge dismisses DNC lawsuit against Trump campaign, Russia over election interference MORE was coordinating with Wikileaks about the group's plans to release hacked Democratic documents.
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Trump thinks of himself as a great man — that is the premise of his entire sales pitch, that America has faltered and can only be made great again by the Midas touch of his tiny hands — but if current trends continue and he suffers a staggering loss on Election Day, his ego will be forever injured as he is assigned to history not as a great man but as a great disaster, a cautionary tale of what comes of a party that picks a con man as its frontman.
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