Al Capone Does My Homework (18 page)

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DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI,
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Frauds, Scams, and Cons
(Indianapolis: Alpha, 2003), 187

2
www.uselessinformation.org. The only source for this is a website, so I’m not one
hundred percent certain this is true.

3
DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI,
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Frauds, Scams, and Cons
(Indianapolis: Alpha, 2003), 187

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DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI,
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Frauds, Scams, and Cons
(Indianapolis: Alpha, 2003), 187

5
The New York Times,
August 31, 1949. “Lustig, ‘Con Man,’ Dead Since 1947.”

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DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI,
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Frauds, Scams, and Cons
(Indianapolis: Alpha, 2003), 186

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Count Lustig’s file, National Archives, San Bruno, CA

8
JIM ALBRIGHT,
Last Guard Out: A Riveting Account by the Last Guard to Leave Alcatraz
(Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2008), 103, 104

9
JAMES A. JOHNSTON,
Alcatraz Island Prison and the Men Who Live There
(Douglas/Ryan Communication, 1999, 2001), 30

10
ROBERT J. SCHOENBERG,
Mr. Capone: The Real—and Complete—Story of Al Capone
(New York: William Morrow and Company, 1992), 337

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MICHAEL ESSLINGER,
Alcatraz: A Definitive History of the Penitentiary Years
(San Francisco: Oceanview Publishing, 2003), 125

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MICHAEL ESSLINGER,
Alcatraz: A Definitive History of the Penitentiary Years
(San Francisco: Oceanview Publishing, 2003), 147

13
MARK DOUGLAS BROWN,
Capone: Life Behind Bars
(San Francisco: Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, 2004), 33

14
RUSSELL FREEDMAN,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(Boston: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992), 56, 57