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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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   https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/c6fd7e99-e74c-4e1b-b769-9a84bf520f29

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     Adam (adamsaidsomething@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 04:53:02 JST Adam

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     She succumbed to a glamorous lifestyle while sending taunting letters to the detectives on her trail.

     She was eventually betrayed, caught, and handed the longest sentence ever given for white collar crime, but used her brains to get herself out of prison twice – first by a daring escape and the next time by studying law.

     She's also a domestic abuse survivor, dated horrible men, and navigated the challenges of motherhood while in prison.

     Guardian portrait:

     https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/aug/22/tanya-smith-stole-40m-evaded-fbi-broke-out-prison

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