{"id":2189,"date":"2020-08-13T10:41:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T14:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2020-08-13T10:52:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T14:52:22","slug":"bobby-thompson-the-story-that-the-us-government-doesnt-want-you-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=2189","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Thompson: The story that the US government doesn&#8217;t want you to know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohioana.org\/programs\/ohioana-book-festival\/\">Ohioana 2020<\/a> author Jodi Andes has worked at the Columbus Dispatch and was a senior investigator at The Ohio Attorney General&#8217;s office, where she conducted an inquiry into the con artist Bobby Thompson, the subject of her book, <a href=\"http:\/\/jodiandes.com\/\">Master of Deceit.<\/a>  Listen in to hear why this conman was able to get access to the top American politicians of the time, like George W. Bush, Rudy Giuliani, Karl Rove, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, while defrauding American veterans of $100 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Master of Deceit: How a Veteran Con Man Scammed His Way into the White House\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_iKGjHfBL95heAZ&#038;asin=B086ZYCGXF&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6397\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2189-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/WCBE_2020-8-12_mixdown.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/WCBE_2020-8-12_mixdown.mp3\">http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/WCBE_2020-8-12_mixdown.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/WCBE_2020-8-12_mixdown.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?powerpress_pinw=2189-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/WCBE_2020-8-12_mixdown.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"WCBE_2020-8-12_mixdown.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohioana 2020 author Jodi Andes has worked at the Columbus Dispatch and was a senior investigator at The Ohio Attorney General&#8217;s office, where she conducted an inquiry into the con artist Bobby Thompson, the subject of her book, Master of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=2189\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-craft-productions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2194,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions\/2194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}