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The Jordan Harbinger Show

432: Larry Lawton | From Jewel Thief to Honorary Cop Part One

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Talk Radio, Business, Science, Education

4.812.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Larry Lawton shares his stories as chronicled in Gangster Redemption: How America's Most Notorious Jewel Robber Got Rich, Got Caught, and Got His Life Back on Track.

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0:00.0

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0:03.1

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0:06.8

Coming up on the Jordan Harbinger Show.

0:10.0

So if I rob a million dollar picture, I couldn't get 30,000 bucks for a million dollars.

0:15.3

10% is a hundred thousand. I couldn't get that. And I'm going to take an order of heat you're

0:20.0

going to get for robbing stuff like that. And then where do you get rid of it? That's the key.

0:24.0

You couldn't get rid of it. I'm sure there's less than this bias for everything out there.

0:28.0

Maybe some eccentric billionaire in Spain that puts it in his basement,

0:32.4

goes down and he jacks off to it. I don't know. Listen, in my criminal career,

0:36.8

what I wanted is you get it, you get rid of it, and you get the money, and goodbye.

0:41.4

You don't hold things. You're not a retailer.

0:47.8

Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. On the Jordan Harbinger Show, we decode the stories,

0:52.4

secrets, and skills of the world's most fascinating people. If you're new to the show,

0:56.2

we have in-depth conversations with people at the top of their game. Entrepreneurs and astronauts,

1:01.0

spies and psychologists, even the occasional jewel thief, and each episode turns our guest wisdom

1:06.6

into practical advice you can use to build a deeper understanding of how the world works,

1:10.8

and become a better critical thinker. Today, Larry Lotton, he's got to be the only ex-con in the

1:15.9

United States to be sworn in as an honorary police officer, and he's the only ex-con ever to be

1:22.0

recognized on the floor of the United States Congress for his work with helping young people

1:26.5

and law enforcement agencies. Larry Lotton spent 11 years in some of the toughest federal prisons in

1:32.2

the country, but let's be real. That's not why we're here today. We're here today because he stole

1:36.9

over $18 million in diamonds. Today, we'll go inside the mind of one of the most prolific jewel

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