Randy Glass started off as a
con man
A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using their credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed. Researchers have ...
and later became a trusted U.S.
undercover
To go "undercover" (that is, to go on an undercover operation) is to avoid detection by the object of one's observation, and especially to disguise one's own identity (or use an assumed identity) for the purposes of gaining the trust of an ind ...
operative. He was part of a mission to snare terrorist
arms buyers.
He was a jewelry dealer in Boca Raton, Florida who defrauded diamond & jewelry wholesalers of $6M. His sentence was reduced to 7 months for his participation in the FBI's illegal weapons purchase sting "Operation Diamondback".
References
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20080306061647/http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=randy_glass
*http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/randyglass.html
Transcript Of Dateline NBC story about Randy Glass
Further reading
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American confidence tricksters