According to police, Johnson's sole income came from her grifting.
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It didn't work: Delvey's grifting caught up to her instead.
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GRIFTING IS ARGUABLY a natural, even inevitable byproduct of American democracy.
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Shonda Rhimes has apparently noticed the dual grifting/Anna Delvey movement, too.
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The Trump Foundation is just one of many examples of Trump's grifting.
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In Jhabvala's fiction, gurus are, to a man, grifting, lecherous, manipulative—and successful.
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" "As it relates to the grifting, they're saying we're profiting off of the presidency.
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Grifting, it seems, might just pay off in the end — at least for the viewers.
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For this, those of us who are horrified by Trump's relentless grifting should be grateful.
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In true shitamachi fashion, fellowship does not prevent anyone on the premises from sponging or grifting.
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As the podcast and TV show quickly reveal, the titular Dirty John has a nasty grifting habit.
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You'd be hard-pressed to find an aspect of the president's life that isn't marked by grifting.
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The dubious grifting of Donald Trump, in short, is a part of the structure of conservative history.
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Grifting — AKA the act of swindling, often by pretending to be someone you aren't — is having a moment.
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The Trump family is about to move into the White House, and their motto remains "always be grifting."
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The second, and somewhat less benign, explanation is that Trump had at least general knowledge of Cohen's grifting.
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Fraudulent online purchases, fake tech support schemes, and employment scams are among the most successful methods of online grifting.
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In July, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Scott Pruitt, (finally!) got shown the door for his industrial-grade grifting.
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My nascent and short-lived grifting never reached its full potential — mostly because I wasn't allowed online after 9 p.m.
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In his self-righteousness and outsized ego, Steyer resembles a resistance grifter, but the only one he's really grifting is himself.
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So he, like all the G.O.P. contenders, didn't have what it would have taken to make Mr. Trump's grifting an issue.
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But until now the investigation appeared to turn up little, except a small grifting scheme operating out of the Colleys' property.
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But pure grifting was a problem for the movement, and it never went away, even after they succeeded in reorienting politics.
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His own administration has seen dramatic cases of self-dealing, official grifting, Cabinet secretaries living high on the government dole, and nepotism galore.
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She died of cancer in 2004 but will live on in our minds as a transgressive, grifting tech queen - years ahead of her time.
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For example, which most effectively mobilizes voters: Trump's racism and sexism, his grifting, his temperament, his finger on the nukes, or his economic plans?
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Dylan knows that without snooker, he'd probably be on the dole and grifting, like his dear old mom, Stella (Johanna Day as squalor incarnate).
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From petty grifting to allegations of treason, the early Trump era has offered a survey course in how to diminish public faith in democratic institutions.
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Coupled with numerous crackdowns on the far-right movement's ability to organize and fundraise online, this will also damage the small cottage industry in grifting it's spawned.
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In a few years, she's a legitimate NYC art scene fixture, and she learns to tell the story of her grifting years in a whole new way.
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During an age of grifting, Amazon chief executive officer Jeff Bezos has been the most effective at showing the negative side of capitalism with rampant worker exploitation.
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Reporting over the last month has shown that nearly everyone in the Trump administration has been grifting in one way or another, just not at Price's level.
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The money I save on grifting the items necessary to look socially acceptable more than makes up for the fact that the Equal Rights Amendment never passed.
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Onscreen, Delvey's saga — the crown jewel in what has been proclaimed a prime season for grifting, complete with T-shirts — can be buffed and honed into something neater.
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To date, however, Benjamin's still very popular on YouTube, which is where he made his announcement: His grifting is now poised to become something darker and more influential.
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Of course, Anna Delvey and Elizabeth Holmes, like Anna March, are white women; for them, grifting is easier since they can walk into any room expecting to command it.
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His arrest was the first time he found himself in serious trouble, though he had been grifting since at least the early 1970s, when he worked as a police officer.
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The culture of corruption around this president — his sleazy campaign manager on trial, three former Cabinet secretaries forced to resign in disgrace, all the grifting — have left many people saying, enough.
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But there is something they should do with their newfound power, if they are to be responsible stewards of the rule of law: hold the President and his grifting family fully accountable.
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While grifting and heisting are two totally different levels of cons (grifts:heists :: selling PR gifts on Poshmark:robbing the Met), stories about low-key con artists and budding criminals are extremely satisfying to read.
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Pruitt resigned after dealing with near-constant controversy over his hiring and firing practices, excessive use of money on things he didn't need, and — apparently like Ross in his stead — his grifting habits.
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We may know how Delvey's story ends (um, with her in prison) but with a cast this good, there's now every reason to watch her story of grifting New York come to life.
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Unlike the criminal cases the F.B.I. investigates — from financial crimes to mafia grifting — the bureau in counterintelligence cases focuses less on "solving" a case than on better understanding the nature of intelligence activity.
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And, indeed, the rest of the hour is about Jimmy trying to leave the law behind, in favor of returning to a life of grifting and living by the seat of his pants.
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It's not a secret that the NRA has the GOP in its pocket; it's not a secret that many of the Republican voters who make up the NRA's base seem entirely comfortable with grifting.
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The latest video highlights these buffoons' inflated sense of self-importance or their grifting tactics with potential clients—whichever it is, it's easy to see why they were the perfect firm for the Trump campaign.
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Durand said the proceeds of Delvey's Netflix deal should instead be given to the New York State Office of Victim Services, for redistribution to the people impacted by her grifting, the Times reported, citing Durand's filing.
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Some of the grifting that results from this is almost comical, as in the periodic stories about the Secret Service spending thousands of dollars at a time renting golf carts from clubs that the president owns.
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In an administration characterized by extreme swampiness and ethical flexibility, the E.P.A. chief had nonetheless distinguished himself with pathological grifting to the point that even some Republican lawmakers and reliably conservative commentators had begun publicly slapping him.
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" The heyday of grifting, from the 19903s to the stock-market crash of 1929, was a time of preternatural abundance; Herbert Hoover, accepting the Republican Party's nomination for president in 1928, predicated an imminent "triumph over poverty.
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Regardless of whether or not greed was a motivating factor for Trump (it was), it's now clear that many of Trump's staffers—especially in the early days, when few respectable political types would join the circus—were essentially grifting.
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Beset by at least 13 investigations into his alleged grifting and abuse of power—including his office's expenditure of almost $2003,000 on hardwearing pants and polo shirts—Scott Pruitt resigned as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on July 5th.
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His mother wired him a monthly stipend, but he made the bulk of his cash by grifting at airport bars on the journey, selling harmless, phony "language pills" to strangers after claiming they were the reason he spoke so many languages.
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It's here that the film briefly sparks to life, as Arthur's grifting, wisecracking cronies (with colorful names like Goosefat Bill) hatch their throne-toppling scheme in thick Cockney accents reminiscent of Ritchie's East London street toughs from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
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The only way you could cut the clicks is if you calmed down, behaved properly and acted like a decent human being, so that there weren't always 20 breaking news stories every day about your conspiring and grifting and lying and lunacy.
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Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab Neha Narula, director of the Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative Despite all the grifting, thieving, speculation, and wild price swings you've heard about, bitcoin and other decentralized digital currencies are clearly here to stay.
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In some cases, this is a matter of elites enriching themselves—the Olympics, right up until the moment they begin hymning universal values and the beauty of human possibility in the opening ceremony, are always driven by all manner of grifting and graft.
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" Representative Ted Lieu of California warned of the steady "drip, drip, drip of grifting from Trump's appointees," and when Forbes looked into Wilbur Ross's business history, it concluded that "the current United States secretary of commerce could rank among the biggest grifters in American history.
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Whether it's stealing jewelry at the Met Gala a la Ocean's 8, grifting hundreds of thousands of dollars like Anna Delvey, or stealing and blowing up a car in Selena Gomez's new music video for "Back To You," we can't get enough of women on the run.
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Mostly, it's extremely satisfying to get lost in a true crime tale that doesn't revolve around a grisly murder or the grifting of everyday people — the biggest victims here are almost always McDonald's, and the people who get too greedy as the Monopoly fraud scheme grows.
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Mostly, it's extremely satisfying to get lost in a true crime tale that doesn't revolve around a grisly murder or the grifting of everyday people — the biggest victims here are almost always McDonald's, and the people who get too greedy as the Monopoly fraud scheme grows.
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"We can go full transparency, we show everything, and we can talk about all of the places where I am supposedly grifting but Hunter Biden isn't," said Don Jr., also claiming that he'd be willing to release his own tax returns if Hunter Biden put his out.
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Like The Host and Snowpiercer before it, Parasite is a movie with meaning; on the surface, it's a darkly comedic grifting film about the Kims, a poor but entrepreneurial-minded family conning their way into a series of well-paying jobs with the wealthy but oblivious Park family.
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This avocado-carrot caper, which was apparently first identified by Emmeline Taylor, a criminology professor at the University of London, has so far been observed in both Australia and the UK. No word yet on whether it's spread to the US, but given America's well-documented penchant for both guacamole and grifting, it's probably only a matter of time.
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Her first act out of prison (after stealing some truly fabulous clothes and makeup and setting up shop in a suite overlooking Central Park, a masterclass in Anna Delvey-level grifting) is to assemble a crew, and that starts with Lou (Cate Blanchett), Debbie's former partner, who's been toying with a semi-legitimate life as a club-owner who serves watered down vodka to yuppies.
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Moira Langtry: She was involved with Roy and is involved in the long con. She doesn't get along with Roy's mother. She wants to team with Roy, thinking that her successful career of grifting is nearly over the older she gets.
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Lilly Dillon: A 39-year-old working for Bobo Justus, a bookmaker out of Baltimore, Maryland, she was very young when she gave birth to Roy. Inattentive, even callous as a mother, she nonetheless feels owed by her son. She is on the long con. She often feels there is no way out of grifting for her.
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Commentary for "The Great Money Caper", in The Simpsons: The Complete Twelfth Season [DVD]. 20th Century Fox. Originally, the episode would be about pool hustling, however as writing ensued, the script went through several incarnations until the Simpsons writers settled on the grifting story seen in the episode. Omine read several books about grifters for preparation for writing the episode.
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Close friends Rae and Carla live an impoverished life in a quiet, depressed Southern town. They pay for their drug and alcohol habits through odd jobs, grifting, and occasional prostitution. Rae has a disturbing encounter with her abusive, alcoholic father at a local bar. The two friends then head out to the countryside to score some cocaine and a brutal cycle of violence ensues.
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Foley gets out of prison after 25 years, for killing his best friend and grifting partner. His partner's son, Ethan, tries to recruit him into a grift he's planning, and Foley turns it down, saying he wants to go straight. When his initial efforts fail, Ethan tricks Foley into sleeping with Foley's daughter, Iris, he never knew he had, and uses her as leverage to force him to do the job.
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"The Great Money Caper" is the seventh episode of The Simpsons' twelfth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 10, 2000. In the episode, Homer, along with his son Bart, con people out of their money in order to pay for Homer's broken car. However, after having paid for the repairs, the two decide to continue grifting, which leads to some troublesome situations.
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A native of Jeju Island, Joo Yoo-rin lives with her father, who is addicted to gambling. Because of her father's debts, Yoo-rin has become particularly skilled at lying and grifting. When her father escapes the island to hide from his debtors, Yoo-rin is determined to support herself and clear up the debts. One day, she meets Seol Gong-chan, the sole heir to the L'Avenue Hotel fortune.
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Her suspicions that Roy is a con man are confirmed when she sees him conning a group of sailors on the train. Later, she tells him that they should work together, but he refuses; Moira becomes furious, and Roy slaps her and leaves, thinking that is the end of the relationship. Later, he decides to take the sales job and quit grifting. The police then visit Roy, informing him that his mother has committed suicide.
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If a sucker came in and started to go into the big room, some gee would stop him and say, "This is a private club. Are you a member?" And if he went in to buy a drink, the beer glass would be about the size of a thimble and the whisky terrible. And the Mickey Finns were always ready for some punk grifting kid who thought he would crash the joint.
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"Stacy" reassures Cutter that by going along with her to Rio to reverse her plastic surgery and dropping his scam against Rex, that he was on the path to redemption. Cutter planted a kiss on "Stacy". "Stacy" pulls away from Cutter after she is surprised that he kissed her. Cutter tells "Stacy" the reason that he kissed her was because he started to develop feelings for her, and that she helped him reform his grifting ways.
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He tells her that, for her own good, he won't let her take it and that he wants her to quit grifting. Lilly pleads with Roy to let her have the money, asking him what she should offer (tempting him to acknowledge his incestuous urge toward her). Lilly suggests that Roy finish his drink, distracting him and providing the opportunity to hit him with her purse. The blow accidentally breaks the glass, which cuts into Roy's neck, causing him to bleed to death.
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Frontier and Midland, The Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, Utah)5 Feb 1939, Sun • Page 12 Baháʼí Helen Grifting moved to Reno and invited the Mayberrys over to dinner. She became a companion on many family outings and through her presence the Mayberrys began to read their now two Baháʼí books but did not think had to belong to a religion. They attended Helen's fireside talks regularly along with her mother and brother and his new wife. They heard presentations by returning pilgrims and international travelers.
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At the support group, Mike befriends Anita after she recounts how her husband, a former Navy officer, mysteriously disappeared on a hiking trip. The story compels Mike to contact Daniel and agree to be his bodyguard. While having dinner with Jimmy, Kim briefly plays along with a grifting "game", but quickly makes sure he knows they're not going to actually do it. When Kim wonders whether they did the right thing with Chuck, an exasperated Jimmy replies what happened to Chuck was his own fault and she should forget about him.
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Bart is left out on the street, and people begin giving him money so he can get home on public transportation. As Homer drives home, he sees Bart in a taxi, and when he gets home he sees him eating a steak dinner. They decide they can make money grifting, however Marge and Lisa begin suspecting of them after they "worked" without Bart's kit, which they both left behind at home. Homer and Bart continue to grift after they have fixed the car, and Grampa volunteers to help them grift, since he was a con-artist during the Great Depression.
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Cutter then meets up with Dusky when she arrives at the club to give her the tour of the place and introduce her to his employees before she signs her contract with Blair. Cutter later sees Natalie at the front door of the club waiting in line and invites her in through the velvet ropes. On May 30, Cutter offers Natalie to serve her favorite drink at the bar, and orders Nikki to make her a stiff cosmo because she's amazing. Nikki tells Natalie that he says that to every sexy lady that comes to the club, which makes Natalie thinks that Cutter hasn't changed his grifting ways.
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Upon receiving an answer he would open the ledger, pretend to look for his name, then inform the man "in an authoritative tone" that the government demanded that he work thirty days on the fortifications, or else pay this soldier (as its 'representative') ten dollars in cash.Federal troops were paid $13 per month, at this time. See Soldier Pay Anyone who refused, said he, would be sent beyond Federal lines and left to the mercy of the Confederates. The hapless freedman, feeling himself to be without recourse, would give all the money he had to the grifting soldier to have his name removed from the fictitious 'list.
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The son of a legendary con artist, Bobby Caldwell, Linus is one of two newcomers to Danny's crew, recruited by Danny in person. Having witnessed Linus' pickpocket skills grifting in Chicago, he offers him a key slot on his crew for one of the essential parts of the elaborate heist. Throughout the trilogy, Linus repeatedly makes attempts to live up to the reputation of his family and gain respect within the crew. At various times, he seems to succeed: he backs up Danny in Eleven by bringing extra batteries for the explosives, which turn out to be crucial, and in Twelve gets a chance to run the con when half the crew end up in prison.
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Cutter and "Stacy" are in Brazil to find her plastic surgeon to reverse the surgery and are both followed by Rex and Cutter's former grifting partner and ex-girlfriend Christine Karr (a.k.a. Aubrey Wentworth, the real name of Cutter's sister which she used when scamming); when they arrive at the same office, and after Alex admits to knowing and disliking Rex, Cutter orders Alex to help him and "Stacy" escape without Rex's knowledge and become involved in Cutter's scheme to win her son's forgiveness. Cutter covers Alex's face with a bunch of bandages to fool Rex and Aubrey to believe that she was Gigi after she got her plastic surgery. Cutter wheels out Alex to the waiting room where Rex and Aubrey are there to find Cutter and Gigi's "imposter".
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Mac and Dennis have been teabagging Cricket at every opportunity since high school. Dennis claims that he has a shoebox full of pictures of him and Mac doing this, and pictures are surfacing on the Internet. One recurring theme in the series is Cricket's downward spiral; due to his involvement with the Gang he leaves the priesthood, supports himself by grifting or panhandling, becomes addicted to PCP and crack cocaine, has his legs broken by members of the Philadelphia Mafia, frequently commits sex acts with dogs, has his throat sliced by Frank in a wrestling match, is hunted by Mac and Dennis for sport, and suffers a gunshot wound in his hand when he is trespassing at Paddy's and Frank accidentally shoots him. He is then left bleeding in the car by Frank and Dee while they go into a store full of hurricane-panicking people, and he ends up driving through the doors of the place and further injuring himself.
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Change raising, also known as a quick-change artist, is a common short con and involves an offer to change an amount of money with someone, while at the same time taking change or bills back and forth to confuse the person as to how much money is actually being changed. The most common form, "the Short Count", has been featured prominently in several movies about grifting, notably The Grifters, Criminal, Nine Queens, and Paper Moon. For example, a con artist targeting a cashier apologetically uses a ten-dollar bill to pay for an item costing less than a dollar, claiming not to have any smaller bills; the change of over nine dollars will include either nine singles or a five and four singles. The con artist then claims to have found that he had a dollar bill, after all, and offers to change it and the nine dollars for the original ten.
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