I'm Aaron Moriarty of 48 hours and of all the cases I've covered this is the one that troubles me most a bizarre and maddening tale involving an eyewitness account that doesn't quite make sense. A sister testified against a brother, a lack of physical evidence. Krossy Green has lived more than half his

life behind bars for a crime he says he didn't commit.

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I'm Vanessa Grecorditis, and this is a three-part series it's called

Fool Me Twice. This week we have a story about a man who wanted to be a kind of puppeteer behind powerful people.

He became a Washington insider, a Republican operative, and he conned dozens of people out of millions of dollars along the way.

He denies any wrongdoing just so you know.

His schemes earned him a heavy prison sentence, but he got out early. His name is Paul Erikson.

Now, Paul Erikson, who has given very, very few interviews, is from South Dakota Dakota and so is journalist Paul Glatter who's

known Ericsson for decades. I know it's a lot of guys named Paul here's Paul

Glatter to tell the story of how Paul Ericsson got out of prison

so much sooner than anyone expected.

It's late one night in Minnesota in January 2021. The cold winter wind whips around a small

low-rise brown building covered in snow. The building is a federal prison,

FPC Duluth. Club Fed, some people call it, because it's minimum security, so

it's almost like a college dorm.

Inside, one inmate Paul Ericsson sleeps fitfully in his bunk.

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