Is he the Smartest Criminal?

[Testbiiz]

Speaker : Matthew Cox
Source : Danny Jones Podcast

[chrisbille]

He's spent plenty time in jail for those of us thinking

[redwhiteandwho]

Sounds like something some politicians are up to.

[ngrant]

In other words, "I'm a scumbag common criminal."

[charleslanier]

He basically used the system like the bank does.

[LeroyBrown]

I did the opposite. Sold short sales while recording on the mls, driving the prices down in an entire market.

[Simon-No_agro_tho]

Man goes to jail then doesn't shut up about it for the rest of his life.

[Corey-od]

This the kind of greed and fuckery that has this country in the shitter. No joke.

[barryallen]

Everyone watching this needs to understand that he was convicted in 2007 when he was 38y/o with head full of brown hair, when he left prison he was 50.5 y/o and most of his hair was white (technically transparent, as your body has lost the ability to produce that specific pigmentation.) If he was so smart he would've come up with a method that did not arouse suspicion, therefore never being caught. Also, he got greedy is how he got caught. He never paid attention to what the people connected to his female accomplices were doing and he got greedy.

He was arrested when he returned to the bank to make a transaction, but he told authorities his name was "Gary Lee Sullivan", one of about thirty aliases Cox had at the time; because "Sullivan" had no open warrants, the police released him. Shortly afterwards, Cox and Hauck moved to Houston, but they separated and she remained there in hiding under an assumed name. A year later the Secret Service found Hauck and arrested her. Convicted on numerous counts, Hauck was sentenced to six years in prison, and five years of supervised release. In May 2006, after being on the run from authorities for two and a half years, Cox was placed on the Secret Service's Most Wanted Fugitives List.

The week that Hauck was sentenced to prison, Cox was living in Nashville, Tennessee under the name Joseph Carter. He was dating a single mother, Amanda Gardner, who was unaware of his criminal past, and posing as the owner of a home restoration business. He told her he was from a wealthy family, and his silver 2005 Infiniti and "fashionably decorated bungalow" seemed to confirm this. Cox used a falsified passport to travel to Europe on a cruise of the Greek Isles with Gardner. He did not spend much time in Italy or Greece due to his intense fear of Interpol. Gardner's 60-year-old babysitter, Patsy Taylor, suspected something about "Carter" didn't add up. When she found out he was originally from Florida, she researched him online and eventually discovered that the man she knew as "Joseph Carter" was really Matthew Cox. Fearing for the safety of Gardner's son, Taylor reached out to Jeff Testerman of the St. Petersburg Times, who had closely followed Cox for more than three years. Testerman in turn put Taylor in touch with Rebecca Hauck's lawyer. Hauck's family paid Taylor for Cox's address, as this information could be used to reduce Hauck's sentence. He temporarily escaped capture due to a chance series of events. Cox and Gardner's home was burglarized, and they checked into a hotel. On November 16, 2006, Cox was arrested by a half dozen Secret Service agents—who had been pursuing him for more than two years—when he and Gardner returned from the hotel. He had been building Williamson a house using his fake identity and credit history, but, fortunately for his friend, he was arrested before Williamson could give him a down payment. Hauck's sentence was later reduced from 70 to 42 months as a result of her assistance in Cox's capture.

[houseofchaos]

Went into the Social Security Administration with false documents for KIDS and came out with authentic social security numbers! Wow!

[brandonleesanders]

The amount of time and energy it takes to do something like this, you’d think he’d rather start a legitimate business and make legal money.

[WEALRO]

This guy likes to hear himself talk He's one of them dudes that plays dungeon and dragons living in a fictional world

[DoneYet-ht]

While he speaks about this to provide a type of service to people, unaware of what people can do to you, he's actually bragging about his skills at stealing, which tells me he will likely do it again at some point in time. What's more is he's telling you how.

[Pockets-dzpu]

I literally don't believe anything this dude says.

[Sevenday]

White collar crime 101 keeping criminals educated 😢😢😢

[patstar]

You aren't manipulating a housing market in your area over fraud

[mrk]

No such thing as perfect Criminal. They're still criminals. The damage left behind at the Taxpayer expense is always devastating not to count the GOV CORRUPTION.

[MondoBeno]

I've never heard of anyone getting the SS numbers, but I saw plenty of mortgage fraud in the early 2000's.

[tacoterpstra]

so house prices go up because they think people want to live there but its just you buying em

[paulweston]

A whole bunch of 3 month old babies getting home loans.