Lugo, a charming conman who had served prison time for defrauding seniors, was the gym's manager.

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Secondary school teacher Laura Quinn was on a night bus when she fell victim to a conman with crutches.

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Among them is Fox's Lone Star, a drama about an oil conman leading dual lives in different parts of Texas.

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Jernnard's alleged stunt echoes that of conman Frank Abagnale, whose exploits posing as an airline pilot were turned into the 2002 film Catch Me If You Can.

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Questions from TV critics about how long the series, about a bound-to-be-discovered conman, can last have been convincingly parried by the show's producers (see "Lone Star Could Be A Spectacular Failure"), who maintain they're more concerned with having too many plot points than too few.

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