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American Greed: The Spy Who Conned Me

American Greed (2022)

Documentary, Crime | United States

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SEASON: 16

EPISODE: 12 - The Spy Who Conned Me

SYNOPSIS

This installment discusses Garrison Courtney, who infiltrated Washington DC's intelligence circles. In doing so, he collected $4.5 million dollars with his tall tales of running a top-secret national security operation for the CIA, the Central Intelligence Agency. Now age 44, when Courtney's lies unraveled after four years of fraud, he was apprehended and was sentenced in October 2020 in federal court in Alexandria, VA to seven years in prison.

RUNTIME: 45 min

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