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American security consultant and fraudster

Frank Abagnale
Abagnale in 2008
Born	Frank William Abagnale Jr. (1948-04-27) April 27, 1948 (historic period 73) The Bronx, New York, U.S.
Citizenship	Us, France
Occupation	Secure document consultant
Criminal charge(s)	Motorcar larceny, theft, forgery, fraud
Criminal penalty	4 months in a French prison 4 months in a Swedish prison house 3 years, 3 months, and vii days in a United states federal prison house 3 years in Great Meadow Correctional Facility, NY (age 17–xx)

Frank William Abagnale Jr. (; born April 27, 1948) is an American writer and convicted felon. He gained notoriety in the belatedly 1970s with biographical claims that included working as an banana land attorney general in the U.S. state of Louisiana, a hospital physician in Georgia, a professor in Utah, and a Pan American World Airways airplane pilot who logged over two meg air miles.^[1] Co-ordinate to Abagnale, he began to con people and laissez passer bad checks when he was 15 years erstwhile. During his teens and early on twenties he was arrested multiple times and was bedevilled and imprisoned in the Usa and Europe. In 1980, Abagnale co-wrote a book on his life, Catch Me If You Can, that inspired the film of the same proper name directed by Steven Spielberg, in which Abagnale was portrayed by histrion Leonardo DiCaprio. He has also written four other books. Abagnale runs Abagnale and Associates, a consultancy house.^[2]

The veracity of most 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, journalist Alan C. Logan provided documentary bear witness that the majority of Abagnale'south claims had been at best wildly exaggerated and at worst completely invented.^{[7] [viii] [9]}

Early life [edit]

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Catch Me If You Tin can: Frank Abagnale's Story, Frank Abagnale, 1:02:27, WGBH Educational Foundation[10]

Frank William Abagnale Jr. was born in the Bronx, New York City, on Apr 27, 1948, to a French-Algerian mother and an Italian-American father.^{[xi] [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] After the divorce, Abagnale moved with his father, and his new stepmother, to Mountain Vernon, New York.^[vii]

According to Abagnale, his first victim was his father, who gave Abagnale a gasoline credit card and a truck and was ultimately liable for a nib amounting to $iii,400. Abagnale was only xv 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 clarification of the Lincolndale Agricultural School) run by Catholic Charities USA.^[13]

In December 1964, he enlisted in the United States Navy at the historic period of sixteen. He was discharged afterward less than three months and was arrested for forgery before long thereafter.^{[15] [xvi]}

In 1965, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Abagnale in Eureka, California for car theft later on he stole a Ford Mustang from one of his begetter'southward neighbors. Abagnale was pictured in the local newspaper, seated in a motorcar, being questioned by special agent Richard Miller of the FBI.^[17] He had financed his cross-country trip from New York to California with blank checks stolen from a family business located on the Bronx River Parkway.^{[15] [16]} Abagnale was also charged with impersonating a U.s. customs official, although this accuse was dropped. On June two, 1965, this stolen car case was transferred to the Southern District of New York.^[7]

Airline airplane pilot [edit]

Later on being released into the custody of his father to face the stolen car charges, 17-twelvemonth-sometime Abagnale decided to impersonate a pilot. He obtained a compatible at a Manhattan uniform visitor, but was arrested in Tuckahoe, New York days later.^{[15] [16]} Abagnale was sentenced to 3 years at the Great Meadow Prison in Comstock, New York. After serving only two years of his sentence, he was released into the custody of his mother. However, he broke the terms of his parole with a stolen auto conviction in Boston, Massachusetts, and was returned to Groovy Meadow for one yr.^[7]

Later his release on December 24, 1968, he disguised himself as a TWA airplane pilot and moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he talked his style into the house of a local music instructor, the father 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 found to have illegally driven his Florida rental machine 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 unit and a local business organisation in Billy Rouge, and he was subsequently charged with theft and forgery.^{[xix] [20]} Unable to brand bail, he was bedevilled on June ii, 1969, and was sentenced to 12 years of supervised probation, simply he soon fled Louisiana for Europe.^{[vii] [21]}

Europe [edit]

2 weeks after the Louisiana demote warrant was issued, Abagnale was arrested in Montpellier, France, in September 1969. He had stolen an automobile and defrauded 2 local families in Klippan, Sweden. He was sentenced to four months for theft in France, only only served three months in Perpignan's prison.^[22]

He was then extradited to Sweden where he was convicted of gross fraud by forgery. He served two months in a Malmö prison and was banned from returning to Sweden for viii years and required to recompense his Swedish victims (which, they say, he never did^[7]). Abagnale was deported dorsum to the U.s.a. in June 1970 when his appeal failed.^[7]

United States [edit]

Subsequently returning to the U.s.a., 22-year-old Abagnale dressed in a pilot's compatible and travelled around 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 airplane pilot and a doctor, and according 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 plan.^[24]

After Abagnale cashed a personal bank check dressed up every bit a Pan Am paycheck, on July xxx, 1970, in Durham, North Carolina, he over again came to the attention of the FBI. He was arrested in Cobb Canton, Georgia, 3 months later on, on Nov 2, 1970, subsequently cashing 10 fake Pan Am payroll checks in different towns. Abagnale escaped from the Cobb Canton jail and was picked up iv days later in New York Metropolis. He was sentenced to 10 years in 1971 for forging checks that totaled $1,448.60 and he received an boosted 2 years for escaping from the local Cobb Canton jailhouse.^{[7] [24]}

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

Later his release, Abagnale stated that he performed numerous jobs, including melt, grocer, and movie projectionist, but he was fired from most of these after information technology was discovered he had been hired without revealing his criminal past. He again posed equally a pilot in 1974 to obtain a job at Camp Manison, a summer children's military camp in Texas where he was arrested for stealing cameras from his co-workers.^[27] After he received simply a fine, he obtained a position at a Houston-area orphanage by pretending to be a pilot with a principal's degree. This job had him finding foster homes for the children living at the orphanage. This ruse was somewhen discovered by his parole officer, who swiftly removed him from his orphanage work and moved him into living quarters higher up his own garage then that he "could go on an eye on him".^[28] His side by side 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 banking company what he had washed and offered to speak to the bank'south staff and bear witness them diverse tricks that "paperhangers" employ to defraud banks. His offer included the condition that if they did not find his speech helpful, they would owe him goose egg; otherwise, they would owe him simply $50, with an agreement that they would provide his name to other banks.^[29] With that, he began a new career as a speaker and a security consultant.^[2] During this time, he falsified his resume to show he had worked with the Los Angeles Constabulary Section and Scotland Yard.^[seven]

In 1977, Abagnale gave public talks wherein he claimed that between the ages of xvi and 21 years old, he was a physician in a Georgia infirmary for one year, an assistant state attorney full general for one year, a sociology professor for two semesters, and a Pan American airlines pilot for 2 years. In addition, Abagnale claimed that he recruited university coeds as 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 airplane was taxiing at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.^{[30] [31]} In 1978 Abagnale told a Honolulu Advertiser reporter that he was familiar with the toilet apparatus, squeezed himself through the opening, swung downwardly through the lower hatch, landed on the pavement, ran across the runway and hailed a cab.^[32] Abagnale claimed he moved the sewage container aside and that no ane heard a thing: "I took off running. I thought they were right backside me. What I didn't know was that the door was spring loaded and when it slammed shut the whole assembly barbarous back into identify. Nobody heard anything considering of the engines' roar."^[33]

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

In 1976, he founded Abagnale & Associates,^[2] 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 educate consumers well-nigh ways to protect themselves from identity theft and cybercrime." In 2018, he began co-hosting the AARP podcast The Perfect Scam near scammers and how they operate.^[34]

He has appeared in the media a variety of times. This includes 3 times equally guest on The Tonight Show, an advent on To Tell the Truth in 1977 ^{[35] [36] [37]} and a regular slot on the British network TV series The Secret Cabaret in the 1990s.^[38] The book about Abagnale, Catch Me If Yous Can, was turned into a movie of the same name by Steven Spielberg in 2002, featuring histrion Leonardo DiCaprio every bit Abagnale. The real Abagnale fabricated a cameo appearance in this picture show as a French constabulary officer taking DiCaprio into custody.^[39]

Veracity of claims [edit]

During his appearances on television and in his speeches, Abagnale has oftentimes 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 $2.v million in bad checks and worked equally an assistant attorney general and a infirmary physician. In add-on, he stated that he started a imitation stewardess trainee program and logged over 2 million air miles disguised as a pilot.^[7]

In public lectures describing his life story, Abagnale has consistently maintained that he was "arrested just once", and that was in Montpellier, France.^{[forty] [41]} All the same, public records testify Abagnale was arrested in New York (multiple times), California, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Georgia, and Texas.^{[fifteen] [17] [21] [22] [27] [42]}

Despite public records showing Abagnale targeted individuals and pocket-sized family businesses,^{[15] [17] [xx] [21] [22] [27] [43]} Abagnale has long claimed publicly that he "never, e'er ripped off any individuals''.^[44] He made the same merits of never targeting individuals and modest businesses to BBC announcer Sarah Montague and the Associated Press.^{[45] [46]} According to Abagnale, the merely individual he ever swindled was a Miami sex activity worker: "She tried to charge me $one,000 for an evening, so I gave her a $1,400 forged cashier'southward check, and got $400 in change."^[47] In 2002, Abagnale told the Star Tribune, "As long as I didn't hurt anyone, people never considered me a existent criminal, my victims were big corporations. I was a child ripping off the institution."^[48]

Even so, individuals criminally targeted by Abagnale have described the long-term consequences of victimization:^[20]

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

—Charolette Parks, Abagnale victim interviewed Apr 27, 1981, The Abet

Journalist Ira Perry was unable to find whatever 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 merely reunited in the late 1980s, well-nigh 20 years after Shea arrested him. Abagnale spotted Shea at an anticrime seminar in Kansas City and sought out Shea to shake his hand.^[50]

In 2002, Los Angeles Times announcer Bob Baker (1948–2015) reported that there was no FBI task strength set up to capture Abagnale.^[51]

His merits that he passed the Louisiana bar exam, worked for Attorney General Jack P. F. Gremillion, and airtight 33 cases, was debunked by several journalists in 1978.^{[24] [52]} There is no record of Abagnale ever existence a fellow member of the Louisiana Bar^[53] and no evidence he ever worked equally an assistant attorney general in Louisiana'south Attorney General Office. In 1978, the Louisiana State Bar Clan reconciled all those who took the bar test and concluded that Abagnale never took the test using his own name or an allonym; the State Attorney General's Office examined payments to all employees during the fourth dimension Abagnale claimed he worked there and concluded that he never worked in the office using his name or an allonym.^[24] Afterward Abagnale appeared on The Tonight Show, then-First Banana Attorney General Ken DeJean gave a reporter a series of questions to inquire Abagnale about the description of and so-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, First Banana Attorney General, "The Cracking imposter", April 24, 1981, The Advocate ^[55]

Abagnale claimed when he was 18 years old that he worked, for one year, equally a supervising pediatrician at the Cobb Full 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 retentiveness, I could easily memorize anything. That did not mean that I could cover information technology, merely 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 as a medico: "And so I made the rounds, picked up the clipboards, scribbled a few lines, initialed them, and everyone thought I was doing a fine job."^[57] However, hospital administrators informed journalist Ira Perry that in that location was no midnight-to-viii shift, or a steady position for an overnight pediatrician, at the time.^[24] Using records from the New York State Archives, writer Alan C. Logan demonstrated that Abagnale was in the Slap-up Meadow Prison, in Comstock, New York, when he was xviii.^[vii]

Abagnale'southward merits that he impersonated a dr. is non entirely without merit. On the Academy of Arizona campus, in 1970, he stated that he was a airplane pilot and a doc. According to Paul Holsen, who was a mature pupil and licenced commercial airplane 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 physical exams on students.^[23] University of Arizona officials acknowledge that Abagnale had interacted with 12 female students.^[24] Abagnale has openly acknowledged that he performed examinations on immature women while impersonating a doctor: "When the girls came past I always gave them a thorough examination and sent them on their mode. I was young, but not stupid."^[59] In 2022 Louisiana State University Manship Chair in Journalism, Robert Mann, expressed his regret in not confronting Abagnale'south merits of conducting concrete examinations as a dr.: "Looking dorsum on my story about the event [Abagnale'southward lecture], I am embarrassed by what I wrote near Abagnale'south time posing equally a pediatrician. Reading those words now, in which Abagnale bragged about sexual abuse, makes me sick."^[60]

Abagnale has publicly claimed an intelligence quotient (IQ) of 140: "I have an I.Q. of 140 and retain 90 percentage of what I read. So by studying and memorizing the bar test I was able to get the needed score."^[31] In 2022 Abagnale gave the keynote at the American Mensa Conference in Houston, Texas. The organizers claimed he was the bailiwick of an FBI manhunt and cashed millions of dollars' worth of checks while impersonating a pilot and medico.^[61] Despite claims of a photographic memory, when queried past USA Today journalist Andy Seiler regarding details of his imposter roles and movements in the 1960s Abagnale responded by proverb, "You become to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.'"^[62]

One of Abagnale's well-nigh notable claims was an alleged escape from the U.s. Penitentiary, Atlanta in 1971:^[63]

I was in 1 of the largest maximum security federal prisons for 2 weeks when I impersonated a prison inspector and walked out, right past the machine guns and the guards.

—Frank W. Abagnale, "Ex-con tells tricks of merchandise", Feb 22, 1979, El Paso Herald-Mail

In 1982 Abagnale told the printing, "I was and still am the only and youngest man to escape from that prison."^[56] All the same, the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that Abagnale was never housed in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary: "he was never admitted, so I don't really see how he could take escaped" said acting warden Dwight Amstutz.^[24]

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

Further doubts were raised about Abagnale'southward story after an October 1978 appearance on The This night Show Starring Johnny Carson, with a news article saying:

Abagnale is indeed a bedevilled confidence creative person. But he is finding willing believers as 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 maxim:

This is the get-go we've heard of this, and nosotros would take heard of or at least retrieve[ed] it if information technology had happened. You don't forget $ii.5 meg in bad checks. I'd say this guy is as phony every bit a $iii bill.

—Ira Perry, The Daily Oklahoman, "Enquiry Shows 'Reformed' Con Man Hasn't Quit Even so", Dec 10, 1978

In 2002, Abagnale addressed the outcome of his story'south lack of truthfulness with a statement posted on his company'south website, which said in part: "I was interviewed by the co-writer only about iv times. I believe he did a not bad job of telling the story, only he also over-dramatized and exaggerated some of the story. That was his style and what the editor wanted. He always reminded me that he was just telling a story and non writing my biography."^[66] However, Abagnale made the principal claims of working every bit a doctor for a twelvemonth, an attorney for a twelvemonth, a PhD professor, and his several escapes on national television in 1977 on the show To Tell the Truth.^[37] He also 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 merits his same co-author, Stan Redding, exaggerated the story.^[31]

In 2006, KSL announcer Scott Haws challenged Abagnale with his claim that he worked as a Ph.D-holding sociology professor at Brigham Young Academy (BYU) for two semesters. Abagnale claimed that he could not recall the details, and that his co-author Redding had exaggerated some things. Haws "refreshed Frank's memory" and showed him his ain words, including the Catch Me If You Can Moviebook and the credits that rolled at the end of the film Catch Me If You Tin, where Abagnale, not Redding, made the BYU professor claim.^[67] Abagnale conceded to Haws that he might take been a guest lecturer.^[68]

So despite claiming to exist a sociology professor in at least three books, two solely written by Abagnale himself, and an on-camera claim following the flick, information technology appears Abagnale every bit a BYU professor is mostly or entirely merely another existent fake.

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

Leading up to 2020, announcer Alan C. Logan conducted an in-depth investigation, as part of publishing a book, on Abagnale's life story. Logan's exhaustive search of earlier paper articles, and other public records, cast reasonable doubt on Abagnale's story. Logan as well discovered numerous administrative documents that contradicted many of Abagnale'southward claims.^[9] Logan's investigation plant that Abagnale's claims were, for the most part, fabrications. Documents show that Abagnale was in Great Meadow Prison in Comstock, New York, betwixt the ages of 17 and 20 (July 26, 1965, and December 24, 1968) every bit inmate #25367, the time frame during which Abagnale claims to have committed his most significant scams. Logan'due south investigation uncovered numerous piffling crimes that Abagnale has never best-selling, and with Logan giving show to argue that many of Abagnale'southward most famous scams in fact never occurred.^{[8] [nine]}

Abagnale has told the printing, "I was bedevilled on 2.5 1000000 dollars' worth of bad checks" and that he after hired a constabulary business firm to get all the coin back to hotels and other companies.^[69] However, federal court records bear witness that Abagnale was convicted of forging 10 Pan American Airlines checks in v states (Texas, Arizona, Utah, California and North Carolina), totalling less than Us$1,500.^[7] Following his parole on Feb eight, 1974, he claimed he went to work for the FBI. Notwithstanding, after this date Abagnale was arrested for theft at a kids camp in Friendswood, Texas.^[27] Logan establish no show to support Abagnale's claims, including the assertion that he was included in a coffee tabular array book celebrating the 100th anniversary of the FBI.^[ix]

In many interviews and speeches Abagnale has claimed that he has earned millions of dollars from his patents.^{[40] [70]} However, the United states of america Patent and Trademark Role website shows that Abagnale as a person, and Abagnale and Assembly equally a business, hold no patents and they are non listed as an inventor on any patent.^[71] In his cheque design patents, Canadian inventor Calin A. Sandru merely mentions in the Background section of the invention that KPMG and Abagnale and Associates are groups that affirm that bank check fraud is a significant problem.^{[72] [73] [74]}

In 2022 Abagnale was confronted past i of his victims in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. When asked why he talks virtually being an attorney general and passing the bar exams, and yet failing to admit his arrest and conviction in Billy 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 Academy, located in Quantico, Virginia: "I teach ethics at the FBI academy, which is ironic, simply years ago, someone at the Bureau said, 'who amend than you lot to practise this?'—I endeavor to teach immature agents the importance of doing the right matter."^[75]

Logan, girded with public records, shared his findings in detail on the NPR program Watching America, Baronial 13, 2021, broadcast on WHRO.^[76]

Personal life [edit]

Abagnale lives on Daniel Island, near Charleston, South Carolina, with his wife Kelly. They have three sons, Scott, Chris, and Sean.^[77] Abagnale cites meeting his wife as the motivation for changing his life. He told writer 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 Can, 1980. ISBN 978-0-7679-0538-1.
• The Fine art of the Steal, Broadway Books, 2001. ISBN 978-0-7679-0683-8.
• Real U Guide to Identity Theft, 2004. ISBN 978-i-932999-01-3.
• Stealing Your Life, Random Firm/Broadway Books, Apr 2007. ISBN 978-0-7679-2586-0.
• Scam Me If You Tin can, 2019. ISBN 978-0525538967.

Meet also [edit]

• The Great Impostor, 1961 flick about Ferdinand Waldo Demara
• Elliot Castro, Scottish former fraudster
• William Douglas Street Jr., American con artist and impersonator upon whose life the 1989 pic Chameleon Street, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Movie Festival, was based

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External links [edit]

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

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