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Tuesday, January 07, 2025

The Admiral and the Con Man

The art director at The New Yorker knew Searle was the right illustrator for this story! (from 2002)

The Mythical Fortune That Fuelled America’s Greatest Fraud

Posing as a British lord, Oscar Hartzell convinced thousands of Americans that they could get a piece of the Sir Francis Drake estate—a multibillion-dollar inheritance that didn’t exist.



 


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