Inside the fraud scandal that's rocked the $15 billion trading card industry
Seventeen years after becoming the most legendary bank robber of the internet age, Anthony Curcio was again inside a federal courtroom facing prison. Dressed in a casual blue suit and loose tie, the 45-year-old still possessed the handsome bad-boy charm that long had Hollywood producers after him.Once the high school football hero of tiny Monroe, Washington, a college injury left him with a Vicodin addiction he couldn't shake.
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Seventeen years after becoming the most legendary bank robber of the internet age, Anthony Curcio was again inside a federal courtroom facing prison. Dressed in a casual blue suit and loose tie, the 45-year-old still possessed the handsome bad-boy charm that long had Hollywood producers after him.Once the high school football hero of tiny Monroe, Washington, a college injury left him with a Vicodin addiction he couldn't shake. Then, when the housing crash hit, the desperate father of two made an outlandish play: an armored-truck heist of $400,000 in cash and a getaway down the Skykomish River on an inner tube. In 2013, after serving five years in federal prison, Curcio began his redemption arc: TED talks, TV appearances, and a line of best-selling children's books.Now, prosecutors alleged, he had been running an elaborate new scheme: defrauding buyers in the booming $15 billion trading card industry.
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- Seventeen years after becoming the most legendary bank robber of the internet age, Anthony Curcio was again inside a federal courtroom facing prison. Dressed in a casual blue suit and loose tie, the 45-year-old still possessed the handsome bad-boy charm that long had Hollywood producers after him.Once the high school football hero of tiny Monroe, Washington, a college injury left him with a Vicodin addiction he couldn't shake.
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