An old photo of Tanya Smith and her family dog. She is wearing a long coat and they are standing in the snow with a house in the background. She provided this photo to the Guardian

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   Adam (adamsaidsomething@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 04:52:43 JST Adam

   This sounds like an extraordinary memoir!

   As a teenager, Tanya Smith stole bank reserves over the phone to help friends and neighbors pay off overdue utility bills. When the F.B.I. derided her, saying Black people "don’t have the brains" to pull off complex heists, she taught herself to hack computers and went on to steal tens of millions from banks and casinos in a multi-year crime spree

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