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There's a larger issue than bad dancing at play

For the last few years, scammers and corporate con men and women (but especially women) who tricked America's elites have captured headlines. But in the last few months, the most prominent ones got the Hollywood treatment from major streaming sites: swindler-socialite Anna Sorokin in Netflix's "Inventing Anna," famous fraudster Elizabeth…

As easy as it was to love the idea of Anna Delvey, Shonda Rhimes never explains why, yet says far too much

From "Fyre Fraud" to "The Tinder Swindler," con artists and their schemes have provided an endless font of material for television docuseries. No need to labor over fictional narratives about brazen frauds when reality has given us Elizabeth Holmes and Bernie Madoff. But in the spirit of fixing something that's…