Well, not exactly. At a talk at Green-Wood Cemetery on Sunday, September 30,
author Geoffrey Ward [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Ward] will discuss
[http://www.green-wood.com/event/ferdinand-ward-19th-century-swindler-talk-tour/]
the “original king of the swindle,” his great-grandfather Ferdinand Ward, who,
in the 19th-century, defrauded businessmen, celebrities, his own