
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, It was 30 years ago today when Thomas Giacomaro, Jersey’s notorious “King of Con,” went on the lam from the US Attorney’s office, the FBI, the IRS, the Department of Labor and, well…you name it, he was running from it.
He’d been caught red-handed stealing millions from a company pension fund, among other felonies.
“Cooperate with us,” Giacomaro remembers them threatening, “or else.”
The former Saddle River resident, who details his adventures in the memoir, The King of Con: How a Smooth-Talking Jersey Boy Made and Lost Billions, Baffled the FBI, Eluded the Mob, and Lived to Tell the Crooked Tale, chose a third option—he fled.