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We examined how abagnale committed his greatest cons. Its brought me a great deal of success and ive turned something very negative into a positive, but even with all that. He was later hired by the fbi as an expert on forgery and document theft, becoming the subject of the. Much of the information known to the public about his personal history was shared in his 1980 memoir catch me if you can. Frank abagnale wikipedia frank abagnale jr net worth. You packed a suitcase with some clothes and all of franks letters and went to the airport. Currently he runs abagnale and associates, a financial fraud consultancy company. A worldrenowned consultant for more than twentyfive years, he lectures at the fbis financial crimes unit and is a securedocument expert for the standard register company and other highsecurity. The book about abagnale, catch me if you can, was turned into a movie of the same name by steven spielberg in 2002, featuring actor leonardo. Frank abagnale gained notoriety in the united states and overseas for his fraudulent crimes.
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