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Sep 5, 2005 · Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father's Counterfeit Life. by Jennifer Vogel. Jennifer Vogel's dad was not like other dads. Sure he loved Jennifer and her siblings, remembered birthdays, took them fishing and on vacations. But John Vogel was a criminal, a conman and a crook. In FLIM-FLAM MAN Jennifer Vogel shares the story of her ...
Feb 26, 2004 · My father, John Vogel, was a counterfeiter, bank robber, and arsonist. He was also artistic and given to sentimentality. The following passage from my memoir. Flim-Flam Man describes our move to ...
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Real Name: John Bryson Vogel
Aliases: J. Johnson, J. Stewart, Robert Timmers
Wanted For: Counterfeiting, Drug Smuggling
Missing Since: January 17, 1995
Details: On January 12, 1995, fifty-two-year-old John Vogel went to a shipping office in Brownsville, Texas, and sent a package to his business office in Minnesota. The shipping clerk became suspicious when she asked Vogel about what he was shipping. He asked her what he had written on the form. She told him that he had written "clothes". He responded "That's right, clothes". This made the clerk believe that he was shipping drugs, as the town borders with Mexico. After he left, she contacted U.S. Customs Officials.
A drug-sniffing dog was brought in to inspect the package. The dog confirmed the presence of narcotics. They had the package sent to Minnesota where local investigators inspected it. Inside the package, they found some pieces of men's clothing along with two aerosol containers with fake bottoms. Inside the containers were about four grams of cocaine and thirty-eight $100 bills. Also in the container were strips of test print, often used in counterfeiting; the print reflects the treasury seal and serial numbers. Investigators had discovered one of the biggest counterfeiting operations on record.
Investigators looked into Vogel's past and discovered that he had served time for a 1986 armed bank robbery. He had been captured only after a violent, high-speed chase. After his parole in 1991, he operated a small printing business just outside of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Federal investigators put his cocaine and counterfeit bills back in the package. It was then taken to Vogel's business, delivered by an undercover Secret Service agent. Shortly after the delivery, Vogel was arrested and his business was searched. Large quantities of counterfeit bills were found.
Investigators also searched a storage locker that Vogel had rented. In the locker, they found 196,116 counterfeit bills. The money added up to over $19 million. He had been printing the bills since his release in 1991. Investigators believe that he learned how to do counterfeiting while in prison, as he was assigned to the printing industry.
Investigators had caught Vogel just in time; although he had created millions of dollars of fake bills, he had only circulated $50,000 worth. He had spent his fake money in at least half of the United States. On January 17, 1995, he was released on a personal recognizance. He promptly disappeared and has not been seen since.
Extra Notes: The case was featured as a part of the May 12, 1995 episode.
One frosty winter morning in 1995, Jennifer Vogel opened the newspaper and read that her father had gone on the run. John Vogel, fifty-two, had been arrested for single-handedly counterfeiting nearly $20 million in U.S. currency—the fourth-largest sum ever seized by federal agents—and then released pending trial.
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Aug 21, 2021 · Yes, ‘Flag Day’ is based on a true story. The movie is an adaptation of Jennifer Vogel’s memoir titled ‘Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life.’. Dylan Penn plays Jennifer Vogel while Sean Penn essays the role of her father, John Vogel. If you avidly watched ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ in the 90s, you might ...
Feb 26, 2004 · Jennifer Vogel's brief final chapter does include some reflections on her father's death, including how her outrage over media coverage of his suicide drove her from her profession for a time.
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Jul 29, 2024 · Busting a Bronco. July 29, 2024. 4 minute read. John Vogel. Short, fat, angry, and powerful. Nicknamed Shortbus, she lived in a mustang pen isolated, mostly because her bites, kicks and overall poor attitude didn’t mix well with the other, more civilized horses. She came out of the Oregon Badlands, bought for cheap, never trained, never ...
