King con!

Victor Lustig was a criminal famous for his imaginative crimes. He was born near Prague in 1890 and he emigrated to the USA in 1920s. He used his most famous alias in Missouri: he pretended to be a rich Australian aristocrat. He paid a bank $22,000 for a very old farmhouse and contemporaneously asked the bank manager to lend him $10,000. When they exchanged envelopes, the bank manager received an empty one: Victor held his money and gained $20,000. Three years later he returned to Europe and one day he discovered that the Eiffel Tower was in poor conditions and some politicians had suggested demolishing it. He asked a forger to make some government newspaper and wrote to five companies trying to sell them the Eiffel Tower. The company directors made their offers, Victor chose the highest one, took the cash and escaped to Austria. The conned businessman didn't told anyone what had happened, so Victor could repeat his con and sell the Eiffel Tower for the second time. But this time his victim went to the police and Lustig had to flee to the USA. After many others crimes, he was arrested and sent to the Alcatraz prison for 20 years.