Convicted felon Eric C. Conn certainly lived up to his name.The small-town Kentucky attorney, who described himself as a “wealthy and flamboyant lawyer,” defrauded the U.S.
government of more than half a billion dollars in the biggest scam ever perpetrated against the Social Security Administration.
His scheme funded a lifestyle that took him to ports of call around the globe, where—again, by his own description—his exploits rivaled James Bond as he “pursued the world’s most beautiful women.”“You’re dealing with a guy that doesn’t have a moral compass,” noted a lawyer who once represented Conn. “You can’t get mad at a snake for being a snake.
It is what it is.”That observation is proffered in the new documentary series The Big Conn, which began streaming on Apple TV+ over the weekend.
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