Cassie Chadwick borrowed a million dollars without Carnegie ever knowing her name
About this episode
The episode explores how Cassie Chadwick deceived banks into lending her money by claiming to be Andrew Carnegie's illegitimate daughter.
Cassie Chadwick borrowed over a million dollars from Ohio banks by convincing them she was Andrew Carnegie's illegitimate daughter without Carnegie ever knowing her name. The mechanism was a single staged performance: she had a Cleveland attorney watch her walk out of Carnegie's mansion carrying papers, then let him spread the secret himself while social shame kept every banker from asking Carnegie directly. Charlie Cruz walks through the whole thing.
Topics covered
- fraud
- identity deception
- historical crime
- banking
- society
- performance
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