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American security consultant and fraudster

Frank Abagnale
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Abagnale in 2008
Born

Frank William Abagnale Jr.


(1948-04-27) April 27, 1948 (age 73)

The Bronx, New York, U.S.
Citizenship United States, France
Occupation Secure certificate consultant
Criminal charge(s) Auto larceny, theft, forgery, fraud
Criminal penalisation
  • 4 months in a French prison house
  • 4 months in a Swedish prison
  • 3 years, 3 months, and 7 days in a US federal prison
  • 3 years in Great Meadow Correctional Facility, NY (historic period 17–20)

Frank William Abagnale Jr. (; born Apr 27, 1948) is an American author and convicted felon. He gained notoriety in the late 1970s with biographical claims that included working as an assistant country attorney general in Louisiana, a infirmary physician in Georgia, a professor in Utah, and a Pan American World Airways pilot who logged over two million air miles.[ane] According to Abagnale, he began to con people and laissez passer bad checks when he was 15 years quondam. During his teens and early twenties he was arrested multiple times and was bedevilled and imprisoned in the United States and Europe. In 1980, Abagnale co-wrote a volume on his life, Catch Me If You Tin, that inspired the film of the same name directed by Steven Spielberg, in which Abagnale was portrayed past actor Leonardo DiCaprio. He has as well written iv other books. Abagnale runs Abagnale and Assembly, a consultancy firm.[2]

The veracity of about of Abagnale's claims has been questioned and in many cases outright refuted.[3] [4] [v] In 2002, Abagnale admitted on his website that some facts had been over-dramatized or exaggerated, though he was not specific virtually what was exaggerated or omitted near his life.[6] In 2020, announcer Alan C. Logan provided documentary evidence that the bulk of Abagnale's claims had been at best wildly exaggerated and at worst completely invented.[7] [8] [9]

Early life [edit]

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Frank William Abagnale Jr. was born in the Bronx, New York City, on April 27, 1948, to a French-Algerian mother and an Italian-American father.[11] [12] He spent his early life in Bronxville, New York. His parents separated when he was 12 and divorced when he was 15 years erstwhile.[7] Subsequently the divorce, Abagnale moved with his begetter, and his new stepmother, to Mount Vernon, New York.[7]

According to Abagnale, his outset victim was his father, who gave Abagnale a gasoline credit card and a truck and was ultimately liable for a neb amounting to $3,400. Abagnale was just 15 at the time.[13] [14] In his autobiography, Abagnale says, because of this crime, he was sent to a reform school in Westchester County, New York (fitting the description of the Lincolndale Agricultural School) run by Catholic Charities Usa.[13]

In December 1964, he enlisted in the Usa Navy at the age of 16. He was discharged afterwards less than 3 months and was arrested for forgery shortly thereafter.[15] [16]

In 1965, the Federal Agency of Investigation arrested Abagnale in Eureka, California for car theft after he stole a Ford Mustang from 1 of his father'south neighbors. Abagnale was pictured in the local newspaper, seated in a machine, beingness questioned past special agent Richard Miller of the FBI.[17] He had financed his cantankerous-country trip from New York to California with blank checks stolen from a family business organization located on the Bronx River Parkway.[15] [16] Abagnale was also charged with impersonating a US customs official, although this accuse was dropped. On June 2, 1965, this stolen auto case was transferred to the Southern District of New York.[7]

Airline pilot [edit]

After being released into the custody of his begetter to confront the stolen car charges, 17-year-erstwhile Abagnale decided to impersonate a pilot. He obtained a uniform at a Manhattan uniform company, but was arrested in Tuckahoe, New York days later.[15] [16] Abagnale was sentenced to three years at the Great Meadow Prison in Comstock, New York. Later serving merely two years of his sentence, he was released into the custody of his female parent. However, he bankrupt the terms of his parole with a stolen automobile conviction in Boston, Massachusetts, and was returned to Keen Meadow for one year.[vii]

After his release on December 24, 1968, he disguised himself as a TWA pilot and moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he talked his way into the house of a local music teacher, the male parent of a Delta Air Lines stewardess he had met in New York. He was arrested on Feb 14, 1969, initially on vagrancy charges. Upon his arrest he was establish to accept illegally driven his Florida rental car out of state and to possess falsified airline employee identification.[18] The following day detectives determined that Abagnale had stolen blank checks from his host family and a local concern in Billy Rouge, and he was afterwards charged with theft and forgery.[19] [20] Unable to make bail, he was convicted on June 2, 1969, and was sentenced to 12 years of supervised probation, simply he soon fled Louisiana for Europe.[7] [21]

Europe [edit]

Ii weeks afterwards the Louisiana bench warrant was issued, Abagnale was arrested in Montpellier, France, in September 1969. He had stolen an automobile and defrauded two local families in Klippan, Sweden. He was sentenced to four months for theft in French republic, just but served three months in Perpignan's prison house.[22]

He was so extradited to Sweden where he was bedevilled of gross fraud past forgery. He served two months in a Malmö prison and was banned from returning to Sweden for eight years and required to recompense his Swedish victims (which, they say, he never did[7]). Abagnale was deported back to the Usa in June 1970 when his appeal failed.[7]

United States [edit]

After returning to the United States, 22-twelvemonth-former Abagnale dressed in a pilot'due south compatible and travelled effectually college campuses, passing bad checks and claiming he was there to recruit stewardesses for Pan Am. At the University of Arizona, he stated that he was a pilot and a dr., and co-ordinate to Paul Holsen, a student at the time, Abagnale conducted physical examinations on several female college students who wanted to be part of flight crews.[23] None of the women were ever enrolled in Abagnale's fictional program.[24]

After Abagnale cashed a personal bank check dressed up as a Pan Am paycheck, on July 30, 1970, in Durham, Due north Carolina, he once again came to the attention of the FBI. He was arrested in Cobb Canton, Georgia, 3 months afterward, on Nov ii, 1970, after cashing ten fake Pan Am payroll checks in different towns. Abagnale escaped from the Cobb County jail and was picked upwards 4 days later in New York Urban center. He was sentenced to 10 years in 1971 for forging checks that totaled $1,448.lx and he received an additional two years for escaping from the local Cobb County jailhouse.[7] [24]

In 1974, Abagnale was released on parole after he had served around two years of his 12-yr sentence at Federal Correctional Institution in Petersburg, Virginia.[25] Unwilling to return to his family unit in New York, he left the choice of parole location up to the court, which decided that he would exist paroled in Houston, Texas.[26]

After his release, Abagnale stated that he performed numerous jobs, including melt, grocer, and pic projectionist, but he was fired from nearly of these later it was discovered he had been hired without revealing his criminal past. He again posed as a pilot in 1974 to obtain a job at Camp Manison, a summer children'due south army camp in Texas where he was arrested for stealing cameras from his co-workers.[27] Later he received merely a fine, he obtained a position at a Houston-area orphanage by pretending to be a pilot with a master's degree. This job had him finding foster homes for the children living at the orphanage. This ruse was eventually discovered by his parole officer, who swiftly removed him from his orphanage work and moved him into living quarters above his own garage so that he "could go on an eye on him".[28] His next position was at Aetna, where he was fired and sued for check fraud.[7]

According to Abagnale, he approached a bank with an offer in 1975. He explained to the bank what he had done and offered to speak to the bank's staff and show them various tricks that "paperhangers" utilize to defraud banks. His offer included the status that if they did non find his speech helpful, they would owe him nothing; otherwise, they would owe him but $fifty, with an agreement that they would provide his proper noun to other banks.[29] With that, he began a new career equally a speaker and a security consultant.[two] During this fourth dimension, he falsified his resume to bear witness he had worked with the Los Angeles Police Section and Scotland Thou.[7]

In 1977, Abagnale gave public talks wherein he claimed that between the ages of 16 and 21 years old, he was a doctor in a Georgia hospital for one year, an assistant state attorney full general for one twelvemonth, a sociology professor for two semesters, and a Pan American airlines airplane pilot for two years. In addition, Abagnale claimed that he recruited university coeds every bit Pan American stewardesses travelling with them for three months throughout Europe. He also claimed he eluded the FBI with a daring escape from a commercial airline toilet bowl, while the plane was taxiing at the John F. Kennedy International Drome in New York.[thirty] [31] In 1978 Abagnale told a Honolulu Advertiser reporter that he was familiar with the toilet apparatus, squeezed himself through the opening, swung downwards through the lower hatch, landed on the pavement, ran across the runway and hailed a cab.[32] Abagnale claimed he moved the sewage container bated and that no one heard a thing: "I took off running. I idea they were right backside me. What I didn't know was that the door was jump loaded and when it slammed shut the whole assembly fell back into identify. Nobody heard anything because of the engines' roar."[33]

He moved his wife, Kelly, and their three sons to Tulsa, Oklahoma. He and his family lived in the same firm for the adjacent 25 years. After the sons left home for higher and careers elsewhere, Kelly suggested that she and Frank should leave Tulsa. They agreed to move to Charleston, Southward Carolina.[26]

In 1976, he founded Abagnale & Associates,[two] which advises companies on secure documents. In 2015, Abagnale was named the AARP Fraud Watch Administrator, where he helps "to provide online programs and community forums to brainwash consumers about ways to protect themselves from identity theft and cybercrime." In 2018, he began co-hosting the AARP podcast The Perfect Scam about scammers and how they operate.[34]

He has appeared in the media a variety of times. This includes three times equally guest on The Tonight Testify, an appearance on To Tell the Truth in 1977 [35] [36] [37] and a regular slot on the British network Television serial The Secret Cabaret in the 1990s.[38] The book about Abagnale, Catch Me If You Tin can, was turned into a movie of the same proper noun by Steven Spielberg in 2002, featuring actor Leonardo DiCaprio as Abagnale. The real Abagnale made a cameo appearance in this film every bit a French law officeholder taking DiCaprio into custody.[39]

Veracity of claims [edit]

During his appearances on television and in his speeches, Abagnale has frequently embellished his criminal exploits, stating that he was wanted in 12 countries, has worked extensively for the FBI and escaped several times from FBI custody. He also claimed that he cashed $ii.v one thousand thousand in bad checks and worked every bit an assistant attorney full general and a hospital medico. In addition, he stated that he started a fake stewardess trainee program and logged over 2 one thousand thousand air miles disguised as a airplane pilot.[7]

In public lectures describing his life story, Abagnale has consistently maintained that he was "arrested only once", and that was in Montpellier, France.[40] [41] However, public records show Abagnale was arrested in New York (multiple times), California, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Georgia, and Texas.[15] [17] [21] [22] [27] [42]

Despite public records showing Abagnale targeted individuals and small family businesses,[15] [17] [20] [21] [22] [27] [43] Abagnale has long claimed publicly that he "never, ever ripped off whatsoever individuals''.[44] He made the same claim of never targeting individuals and small businesses to BBC journalist Sarah Montague and the Associated Printing.[45] [46] According to Abagnale, the only individual he e'er swindled was a Miami sexual activity worker: "She tried to charge me $1,000 for an evening, so I gave her a $ane,400 forged cashier'due south check, and got $400 in change."[47] In 2002, Abagnale told the Star Tribune, "As long every bit I didn't injure anyone, people never considered me a real criminal, my victims were big corporations. I was a child ripping off the institution."[48]

Still, individuals criminally targeted by Abagnale have described the long-term consequences of victimization:[twenty]

He had a key to our front end door, information technology was never recovered. We changed the lock. I fed him. I cooked. I don't trust people as much anymore.

—Charolette Parks, Abagnale victim interviewed April 27, 1981, The Advocate

Announcer Ira Perry was unable to find any evidence that Abagnale worked with the FBI; according to one retired FBI special agent in charge, Abagnale was caught trying to pass personal checks in 1978 several years after he claimed that he began working with the FBI.[24] Dating back to the 1980s Abagnale claimed that Joseph Shea, an FBI agent, had pursued him for 5 years (between 1965 and 1970).[49] Abagnale claimed that Shea befriended and supervised him during his parole.[7] However, when Catch Me If You Can was released in theatres, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Abagnale and Shea just reunited in the late 1980s, almost 20 years after Shea arrested him. Abagnale spotted Shea at an anticrime seminar in Kansas City and sought out Shea to milkshake his hand.[fifty]

In 2002, Los Angeles Times journalist Bob Bakery (1948-2015) reported that there was no FBI chore force set up up to capture Abagnale.[51]

His claim that he passed the Louisiana bar exam, worked for Attorney General Jack P. F. Gremillion, and closed 33 cases, was debunked past several journalists in 1978.[24] [52] There is no record of Abagnale ever beingness a member of the Louisiana Bar[53] and no bear witness he ever worked as an assistant attorney general in Louisiana'due south Attorney General Office. In 1978, the Louisiana Country Bar Association reconciled all those who took the bar exam and concluded that Abagnale never took the test using his own name or an alias; the Land Attorney General's Role examined payments to all employees during the time Abagnale claimed he worked there and concluded that he never worked in the role using his proper noun or an allonym.[24] After Abagnale appeared on The This evening Bear witness, then-Outset Assistant Chaser General Ken DeJean gave a reporter a series of questions to ask Abagnale about the description of then-Attorney General Jack P. F. Gremillion. Abagnale failed to answer the questions correctly.[54]

The man is not an imposter, he is a liar.

—Kenneth C. DeJean, Offset Banana Attorney General, "The Keen imposter", Apr 24, 1981, The Abet [55]

Abagnale claimed when he was xviii years old that he worked, for i year, as a supervising pediatrician at the Cobb General Hospital in Marietta, Georgia. He claimed that he worked the midnight-to-eight shift, supervising 7 residents and 42 nurses.[24] Abagnale claimed that he would visit the university library to memorize medical journals and textbooks: "With my photographic retentivity, I could easily memorize anything. That did not mean that I could comprehend it, simply I could rattle it off verbatim."[56] Abagnale told his audiences that over the course of his one twelvemonth at Cobb General, no one doubted his position equally a physician: "Then I made the rounds, picked up the clipboards, scribbled a few lines, initialed them, and everyone idea I was doing a fine job."[57] However, hospital administrators informed journalist Ira Perry that there was no midnight-to-eight shift, or a steady position for an overnight pediatrician, at the fourth dimension.[24] Using records from the New York State Archives, writer Alan C. Logan demonstrated that Abagnale was in the Great Meadow Prison house, in Comstock, New York, when he was 18.[7]

Abagnale'southward merits that he impersonated a doc is non entirely without merit. On the University of Arizona campus, in 1970, he stated that he was a airplane pilot and a doctor. According to Paul Holsen, who was a mature student and licenced commercial pilot at the fourth dimension,[58] Abagnale informed him that he was there on behalf of Pan Am to recruit and conduct physical examinations on candidates. In his autobiography Holsen claimed that after Abagnale's ruse was discovered, authorities informed him that Abagnale had indeed conducted concrete exams on students.[23] University of Arizona officials acknowledge that Abagnale had interacted with 12 female person students.[24] Abagnale has openly acknowledged that he performed examinations on young women while impersonating a doctor: "When the girls came by I always gave them a thorough examination and sent them on their way. I was young, merely not stupid."[59] In 2021 Louisiana State University Manship Chair in Journalism, Robert Mann, expressed his regret in non confronting Abagnale's claim of conducting concrete examinations as a doctor: "Looking dorsum on my story well-nigh the event [Abagnale's lecture], I am embarrassed by what I wrote about Abagnale'south time posing every bit a pediatrician. Reading those words now, in which Abagnale bragged about sexual abuse, makes me ill."[60]

Abagnale has publicly claimed an intelligence quotient (IQ) of 140: "I accept an I.Q. of 140 and retain 90 percentage of what I read. So past studying and memorizing the bar exam I was able to get the needed score."[31] In 2021 Abagnale gave the keynote at the American Mensa Conference in Houston, Texas. The organizers claimed he was the subject of an FBI manhunt and cashed millions of dollars' worth of checks while impersonating a pilot and doctor.[61] Despite claims of a photographic memory, when queried by USA Today journalist Andy Seiler regarding details of his imposter roles and movements in the 1960s Abagnale responded by proverb, "Yous become to a signal in your life where yous become, 'I don't remember what I did.'"[62]

I of Abagnale'due south nearly notable claims was an alleged escape from the U.s.a. Penitentiary, Atlanta in 1971:[63]

I was in one of the largest maximum security federal prisons for ii weeks when I impersonated a prison inspector and walked out, right past the auto guns and the guards.

—Frank W. Abagnale, "Ex-con tells tricks of trade", February 22, 1979, El Paso Herald-Mail service

In 1982 Abagnale told the press, "I was and however am the just and youngest human to escape from that prison."[56] However, the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that Abagnale was never housed in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary: "he was never admitted, so I don't actually see how he could take escaped" said acting warden Dwight Amstutz.[24]

In 1978, later Abagnale had been a featured speaker at an anti-offense seminar, a San Francisco Relate reporter looked into his assertions. Telephone calls to banks, schools, hospitals and other institutions Abagnale mentioned turned up no evidence of his cons under the aliases he used. Abagnale's response was, "Due to the embarrassment involved, I doubt if anyone would ostend the data." He later said he had changed the names.[64]

Further doubts were raised most Abagnale'southward story subsequently an October 1978 advent on The Tonight Prove Starring Johnny Carson, with a news article saying:

Abagnale is indeed a convicted confidence creative person. Simply he is finding willing believers every bit he promotes and invents a more varied criminal by.

In December 1978, Abagnale's claims were again investigated after he visited Oklahoma City for a talk.[24] As part of his investigation into the story, Perry spoke with Pan Am spokesman Bruce Haxthausen, who responded to the journalists' enquiry saying:

This is the first we've heard of this, and nosotros would have heard of or at least remember[ed] information technology if information technology had happened. You lot don't forget $two.5 one thousand thousand in bad checks. I'd say this guy is as phony as a $3 nib.

—Ira Perry, The Daily Oklahoman, "Inquiry Shows 'Reformed' Con Man Hasn't Quit Yet", Dec 10, 1978

In 2002, Abagnale addressed the issue of his story's lack of truthfulness with a argument posted on his company's website, which said in function: "I was interviewed by the co-writer only virtually four times. I believe he did a cracking chore of telling the story, simply he besides over-dramatized and exaggerated some of the story. That was his fashion and what the editor wanted. He always reminded me that he was just telling a story and not writing my biography."[66] However, Abagnale made the primary claims of working equally a doctor for a year, an attorney for a year, a PhD professor, and his several escapes on national tv set in 1977 on the evidence To Tell the Truth.[37] He too made these claims in print media, namely the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, iii years before the publication of his co-written autobiography, effectively nullifying the claim his aforementioned co-author, Stan Redding, exaggerated the story.[31]

In 2006, KSL announcer Scott Haws challenged Abagnale with his claim that he worked equally a Ph.D-holding folklore professor at Brigham Immature University (BYU) for ii semesters. Abagnale claimed that he could not recall the details, and that his co-author Redding had exaggerated some things. Haws "refreshed Frank's retentivity" and showed him his own words, including the Grab Me If Y'all Tin can Moviebook and the credits that rolled at the end of the movie Catch Me If You Can, where Abagnale, not Redding, made the BYU professor claim.[67] Abagnale conceded to Haws that he might have been a guest lecturer.[68]

And then despite claiming to be a sociology professor in at least three books, 2 solely written by Abagnale himself, and an on-camera claim following the movie, information technology appears Abagnale as a BYU professor is by and large or entirely just another real fake.

—Scott Haws, Did Frank Abignale [sic] Really Teach at BYU?, April 27, 2006, KSL-TV

Leading up to 2020, journalist Alan C. Logan conducted an in-depth investigation, equally office of publishing a book, on Abagnale'south life story. Logan'southward exhaustive search of earlier newspaper articles, and other public records, cast reasonable doubt on Abagnale's story. Logan too discovered numerous authoritative documents that contradicted many of Abagnale's claims.[9] Logan'southward investigation establish that Abagnale'south claims were, for the most part, fabrications. Documents show that Abagnale was in Great Meadow Prison in Comstock, New York, between the ages of 17 and 20 (July 26, 1965, and December 24, 1968) as inmate #25367, the time frame during which Abagnale claims to have committed his almost meaning scams. Logan'southward investigation uncovered numerous petty crimes that Abagnale has never acknowledged, and with Logan giving evidence to argue that many of Abagnale's most famous scams in fact never occurred.[8] [ix]

Abagnale has told the press, "I was convicted on 2.5 one thousand thousand dollars' worth of bad checks" and that he later hired a law firm to become all the money back to hotels and other companies.[69] Even so, federal courtroom records show that Abagnale was convicted of forging 10 Pan American Airlines checks in 5 states (Texas, Arizona, Utah, California and North Carolina), totalling less than US$i,500.[7] Following his parole on February 8, 1974, he claimed he went to piece of work for the FBI. Still, after this date Abagnale was arrested for theft at a kids camp in Friendswood, Texas.[27] Logan constitute no prove to support Abagnale'south claims, including the assertion that he was included in a coffee table book celebrating the 100th anniversary of the FBI.[9]

In many interviews and speeches Abagnale has claimed that he has earned millions of dollars from his patents.[twoscore] [70] Nevertheless, the U.s. Patent and Trademark Office website shows that Abagnale as a person, and Abagnale and Assembly every bit a business, hold no patents and they are not listed every bit an inventor on any patent.[71] In his bank check blueprint patents, Canadian inventor Calin A. Sandru merely mentions in the Background section of the invention that KPMG and Abagnale and Assembly are groups that affirm that cheque fraud is a significant problem.[72] [73] [74]

In 2020 Abagnale was confronted by 1 of his victims in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. When asked why he talks nearly existence an attorney general and passing the bar exams, and yet failing to acknowledge his arrest and confidence in Baton Rouge, Abagnale said, "That's because I work for the FBI."[21] Abagnale claimed to the Star Tribune that he is an ethics instructor at the FBI University, located in Quantico, Virginia: "I teach ethics at the FBI academy, which is ironic, but years ago, someone at the Agency said, 'who improve than you to practise this?'—I effort to teach young agents the importance of doing the right affair."[75]

Logan, girded with public records, shared his findings in particular on the NPR program Watching America, August xiii, 2021, broadcast on WHRO.[76]

Personal life [edit]

Abagnale lives on Daniel Island, near Charleston, South Carolina, with his married woman Kelly. They have three sons, Scott, Chris, and Sean.[77] Abagnale cites coming together his wife as the motivation for changing his life. He told author Paul Stenning that he met her while working undercover for the FBI when she was a cashier at a grocery store.[7] [78]

Books [edit]

  • Catch Me If You Tin, 1980. ISBN 978-0-7679-0538-ane.
  • The Art of the Steal, Broadway Books, 2001. ISBN 978-0-7679-0683-8.
  • Real U Guide to Identity Theft, 2004. ISBN 978-1-932999-01-iii.
  • Stealing Your Life, Random House/Broadway Books, April 2007. ISBN 978-0-7679-2586-0.
  • Scam Me If You Can, 2019. ISBN 978-0525538967.

See also [edit]

  • The Great Impostor, 1961 film about Ferdinand Waldo Demara
  • Elliot Castro, Scottish quondam fraudster
  • William Douglas Street Jr., American con artist and impersonator upon whose life the 1989 film Chameleon Street, winner of the Thou Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Moving-picture show Festival, was based

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External links [edit]

  • Official Abagnale & Associates site
  • Article questioning Abagnale'southward claims.
  • Frank Abagnale at IMDb
  • Interview of Frank Abagnale with BBC News
  • Official Website for Take hold of Me If You lot Can the musical
  • Frank Abagnale: "Catch Me If You Can" | Talks at Google

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