Big Crime Energy w/ Jordan Carlos (Re-Release)

Scam Goddess

Earwolf

Comedy, True Crime

4.8 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

This week, Jordan Carlos joins us to discuss how, during the 1970s, the FBI hired Mel Weinberg, a career con man, to tackle some of Washington’s biggest politicians. This story inspired the movie American Hustle! Laci and Jordan dive into growing up in Dallas near the same churches, driving a Ford, and the con of writing ad commercials. Plus, Late Night Talk Show Host John Oliver is scamming the scammers…Congress, that is. Stay schemin’!  CON-gregation, make sure to catch Laci's new TV Show Scam Goddess, now on Freeform and Hulu! Follow on Instagram: Scam Goddess Pod: @scamgoddesspod Laci Mosley: @divalaci Jordan Carlos: @jordancarlosofficial Research done by Kaelyn Brandt SOURCES https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/last-week-tonight-john-oliver-recap-season-9-episode-7-congress-data-1335598/ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/obituaries/mel-weinberg-dead-abscam-informant.html https://www.nj.com/inside-jersey/2013/11/jersey_hustle_the_real-life_story_of_abscam.html https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/abscam https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/expulsion/140HarrisonWilliams_expulsion.htm

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0:00.0	Scalcans, robberie, and fraud.
0:09.0	Scam!
0:11.0	Cards, robbery, and fraud.
0:16.0	Scalb Goddess.
0:19.0	What's popping congregation? We're back with another installment of Scale Goddess What's popping congregation?
0:21.9	We're back with another installment of Scam Goddess.
0:24.3	It's me, Lacey Mosley, aka Scam Goddess.
0:26.9	This is a podcast dedicated to robbery, fraud, connery, all those who practice it.
0:32.5	Sometimes we love them.
0:33.4	Sometimes we hate them.
0:34.6	I'm very, yes, excited.
0:36.8	Y'all know the deal.
0:39.4	Y'all been here, congregation, pull up.
0:52.5	Very excited for today's guest. Someone who I've seen on television so much that when I saw his face, I was like, oh, okay. Yes. Love this.
0:56.1	Y'all know I'll be, I have too many jobs.
0:57.4	I have more jobs than a Jamaican.
1:00.2	And so I'll be tired a lot.
1:02.6	But so happy to be here.
1:05.9	He is a comedian, an actor, a writer, a producer.
1:10.6	His credits include the co-hosting of the adulting podcast with Michelle Boutot.
1:11.5	Love Michelle Boto.
1:12.8	Love the Adulting podcast.
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