Fraud Friday: The MIT Blackjack Team (w/ Chinedu Unaka)
Description
Chinedu Unaka (Abbott Elementary, Insecure) joins the Con-gregation to discuss how a group of MIT and Harvard students in the 80s perfected card counting and took to casinos, making over $57 million dollars. Plus, a former British Airways pilot is sentenced to a year in jail after he falsified his flying experience. Stay Schemin’! (Originally Released 04/18/2022)
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Research by Kaelyn Brandt
SOURCES:
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27519748
https://www.theverge.com/2012/8/10/3223068/mit-mike-aponte-blackjack-card-counting-defcon
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/race-ethnicity
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