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Masterminds - The Laguna Niguel Heist
Americas most successful bank robber, Amil Dinsio, made away with millions in thirty successful robberies, and was the man behind the 1972 robbery of the Laguna Niguel branch of the United Bank of California—the single most profitable bank vault heist in history.
Masterminds - The Forger's Art
By the time he was caught in 1997, John Drewe had pulled off the biggest art fraud in U.K. history. Drewe met a struggling art teacher with a flare for reproductions and conned him into painting hundreds of fakes. Later, Drewe posed as a wealthy patron of the arts to gain access to museum archives and plant false records that supported the authenticity of his faux masterpieces.
Masterminds - A Gem of a Heist
In 1999, Tony Granims put together a dream team that perfected the art of the jewelry store heist. The resulting rash of robberies in separate states baffled the police. The gang was so confident they often knocked off more than one store in a night. Granims, a registered jeweler ran a security alarm company for the police. He was also a registered private investigator. Who would ever suspect him?
Masterminds - Fool's Gold
In 1993, an obscure prospector stumbled across a neglected property in Borneo and turned it into a mining site worth billions. Michael De Guzman fooled both the mining industry and the entire financial world and so became a multi-millionaire. Using salted samples with gold from his wedding ring, de Guzman fooled the gold industry into investing in his mines - on land owned by Bre-X.
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