Wrestling's Dumbest Criminals

9. Blackjack Mulligan

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Blackjack Mulligan's foolproof scheme to scam the IRS in 1990 came too early; had he waited a year, his son-in-law could have made it an inside job.

As it was, his counterfeit note ploy to hoodwink the Inland Revenue Service - just about the one US governmental agency besides the Bureau of Printing and Engraving most intimately familiar with money - ended in disaster.

Changes to real estate law meant that Mulligan's considerable property portfolio was suddenly no longer tax deductible, leaving him with a huge hole in his finances to fill. He bullroped son Kendall into helping him forge over $500,000 in phony bills, meaning his house looked like the US Treasury when the Secret Service turned up to investigate.

Father and son spent two years in prison following a plea bargain. Mike Rotunda, married to Mulligan's daughter, became IRS in the WWF just a year after the bust. Coincidence?

 
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