Please return to AARP.org to learn more about other benefits.In the next 24 hours, you will receive an email to confirm your subscription to receive emails Please return to AARP.org to learn more about other benefits.You are leaving AARP.org and going to the website of our trusted provider. [00:17:06] Pete Elliott: We set up surveillance, and at one point uh, we uh, one of my deputies was able to go into a local tavern and sitting across from him was none other than Bobby Thompson. But if Thompson was laying low, biding his time, maybe dreaming up new scams, federal agents weren't resting. [00:25:08] Frank Abagnale: Yeah, I think all, all of these con men don't just get finally found out and then say, oh I'm done. And so uh, I, I met with the, the US Marshal and gave him some information that made him start to focus in on the southwest part of the United States, and sure enough he found a trail um, of um, you know where Bobby Thompson had been. I mean, other than there was another suitcase in there with all kinds of uh, identification information that he had been assembled, uh, you know for other identities.
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[00:28:22] Will Johnson: If you or someone you know has been the victim of a fraud or scam, call AARP's Fraud Watch Network Helpline at 877-908-6360. And he had access to that money. He told her he grew up around the Great Lakes, had gotten married, had children. Again, that's Charity Navigator and Charity Watch. He's got an ex-wife who, who's trying to get his money. They even had intel on the tavern where he liked to hang out. Um, and I said, "Well tell me about your children. An investigation by a Florida-based journalist revealed that Thompson’s charity, the U.S. Navy Veterans Association, is an elaborate scam.
Bobby Thompson and his fake Veteran's Charity, we want to remind all of our listeners that you can check how watchdogs like Charity Navigator and Charity Watch rate an organization before you make a donation. And yes, we were, we were very uh, happy that he'd, he had been captured. We, they did not know what his real name was.
He, he dresses neat and his hair was a little long. And did you have any...[00:13:07] Celia Moore: Uh, only with, only really with one guy, but again, you could sense that he enjoyed this. So he was helping them, he was supposedly meeting with their people in downtown Portland, and, and he was helping to advise them on how to make their warehouses more secure.
[00:21:35] Will Johnson: So Mr. X's fingerprints didn't turn up a match, nothing. [00:13:26] Celia Moore: Right. [00:26:22] Will Johnson: Maybe they should have named the movie like, [00:26:25] Frank Abagnale: Yeah, not, not if, but when. [00:23:24] Brad Tammaro: Yeah, he had, yeah, he had the video in there. I knew that there were very smart people out there and they were going to eventually track me down[00:24:55] Will Johnson: Well it is interesting to learn that what, what Bobby Thompson was, was storing away in his boarding house, and also in his locker, and maybe not surprising to learn that he was already planning maybe some other charities. And he was living up in Rhode Island, and it was at that time that the Ohio Attorney General's office was investigating the case and they had his story aired on American's Most Wanted. The provider’s terms, conditions and policies apply. John Thompson Lead Quality Assurance Specialist at U.S. Navy, Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair El Cajon, California Government Administration Still, like Celia says, he liked to stir the pot a little bit. And part of that would have to be his own arrogance. The provider’s terms, conditions and policies apply. [00:20:41] Pete Elliott: We had our man; we had no idea who he was. US Navy. And uh, gave me a, a story about having uh moved to Portland. [00:06:26] Will Johnson: And he also had a pretty distinct appearance, but I, I guess in your line of work you know that people can change that up. John Thompson is among the 44,434 American Gold Star casualties recorded in our archive with close ties to Pennsylvania.This is a substantial number of individuals who gave their lives in … [00:19:37] Brad Tammaro: He was on the run for almost two years, I think. They learned that Thompson might be in Portland, Oregon.
He didn't see the actual episode aired live, um, but got wind of it and uh intensely tracked any news dealing with the episode. I wasn't going to go off somewhere and spend the money and the rest of my life and nobody'd ever catch me, uh you know, I knew that wasn't going to happen. The United States Navy Veterans Association (USNVA) was a tax-exempt veterans' organization that claimed to have a national headquarters in Washington, D.C. In my nightgown.