# Anyone watching The Big Conn?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-watching-the-big-conn/964290>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** apple, documentary-bio\
**Created:** [May 11, 2022, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-watching-the-big-conn/964290 "2022-05-11T17:09:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2022, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-watching-the-big-conn/964290/1 "2022-05-11T17:09:45Z")

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[This documentary on AppleTV](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18265020/) directly addresses the area in which I have worked just about my entire career. Just wondered if any of you are watching and, if so, what you think?

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-watching-the-big-conn/964290/2 "2022-05-11T19:35:24Z")

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$550 million? Why wasn’t this a bigger story?

But then again, I live not far from Dixon, Illinois, who had a city employee steal more than $50 million from a city of 30,000 over the years, in plain sight. Incredibly, she did not serve her full sentence, and is out.

> **[All the Queen's Horses (2017) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5709852/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)**
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> All the Queen's Horses: Directed by Kelly Richmond Pope. With James Burke, Rita Crundwell, Kelly Richmond Pope. How could one woman steal $53 million without anyone noticing? All the Queen's Horses tells the story of Rita Crundwell as self, the...

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**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2022, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-watching-the-big-conn/964290/3 "2022-05-11T19:42:10Z")

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Yeah - just saw there is a petition to have her return to serve more of her sentence. THAT was amazing.

Funny - because it was a HUGE story for the past 10+ years in my shop and others nationwide. I’ll refrain from commenting until others have.

I’m not sure how they are going to come up with that figure of $550 mill, but I assume it is an actuarial extrapolation of lifetime benefits on claims awarded that ought not have been. Would not surprise me if there was considerable inflation. It isn’t as tho the main crooks walked away w/ that amount.

And then there was Puerto Rico… 🙄

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2022, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-watching-the-big-conn/964290/4 "2022-05-11T22:49:45Z")

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It’s not on Netflix yet.

And what about Puerto Rico?

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**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2022, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-watching-the-big-conn/964290/5 "2022-05-11T22:57:29Z")

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Just some more whores blatantly scamming the system.