Frank Abagnale Quotes


My father was never really the con-man type that the film shows him to be: he was straight as an arrow, though he did have problems with the IRS.


Citations

Abagnale, Frank W. "Message from Frank W. Abagnale." Abagnale & Associates, 2002.

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There are many who would disagree with Presti’s description, while many others have this as a chief complaint. The agency tends to change from administration to administration as to its policies and collection methods. In the decades since this criticism, the agency has changed a good deal. However, there are great differences between IRS practices in different parts of the country, some of which are better than the others. One of the major problems of the IRS is the conflict between collecting taxes that should have been paid and were not and ruining the business or individual that committed the offense by taking current working capital. Congress has NEVER weighed in on this question preferring to let the Civil Servants take the heat.


Frank Abagnale
Frank Abagnale
  • Born: April 27, 1948
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Security Consultant

Frank William Abagnale Jr. is an American security consultant known for his criminal life as a con man, check forger and impostor when he was 15 to 21 years old.