Have you ever known someone who was just too smart for their own good?

You know the type, right?

They're brilliant and in natural at just about everything they do, but they tend to use

their brains for less than typical things, usually to get up to trouble.

Coming up in the 1950s and 60s, Frank was a textbook example of this.

He was a bright kid with a couple of uncanny skills.

He could learn enough about anything just by observing how it worked, and he could find

creative ways to use that knowledge for his own benefit.

Honestly, there was very little he couldn't do if he put his mind to it.

For Frank though, that meant becoming a master con artist.

His first con was stealing from his father, using a credit card meant to buy gas for

his work truck.

After that, he spent time figuring out how to write checks for cash he didn't have, and

eventually how to do the same off other people's accounts.

But he also expanded his horizons.

Between the ages of 16 and 18, Frank used a forged pilot's license to travel around the

country, logging roughly a million miles.

After that, he pivoted to medicine, spending time in a Georgia hospital as the chief resident

pediatrician, overseeing half a dozen interns and countless patients.

He even managed to forge a Harvard Law School transcript and use it to get a job in the

Louisiana State Attorney General's office, something that required him to take and pass

the State Bar exam.

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