It’s more that they blackmail you in an attempt to force you into servitude.
Depending on the conditions a safe government job with acceptable pay isn't the worst you can have these days… depending on the government of course.
Jesus. Looks like they banned Rusty for his opinions. Very ironic choice.
Does this actually happen IRL? Or is it just a thing in the movies?
one of most famous cases would be Frank Abagnale, but he was hired for his criminal skills after serving a total of 7 years in prison in 3 different countries. Nazi scientist on the other hand...
Not just scientists. Klaus Barbie worked for the CIA and for the government of Bolivia until 1983. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Barbie
"Wow, a Barbie museum!"
^ a person of culture
Isn't there a movie about him? Barbieheimer or something but I might be wrong
Frank Abignale never worked for the government in any capacity.
He did go to banks and offer to educate them on check fraud, and lied about his credentials in doing so.
He was also caught stealing cameras at a children's summer camp. Fun little tidbit for ya.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cover-up_of_Japanese_war_crimes
There's nothing you could do to demotivate the US government from pardoning your crimes against humanity if they felt like you might be useful
I know it's not modern but there were a few pirates turned privateer
Confidential informants and guest speakers is about as close as it gets.
Felons are prohibited from federal employment.
Yuge if true
I think some hackers did really got hired by CIA
i hated the boys because i thought they were too on the nose with their writing. i'm starting to think they were just ahead of their time and preempted the death of satire. maybe i gotta give that show another try.
Just gotta pedophile on a large enough scale.
This reminds me of the movie Catch Me If You Can.
Hackers come to mind, but I'm struggling to think of other criminal skills that the government would direct hire you for.
I don't know that I would count Confidential Informants as being "hired", nor someone being hired who resides outside the country theyre working for (an Algerian smuggler working for/with the CIA, for example).
Can anyone think of any others?
Maybe espionage, in flipping assets to become double agents.
Counter intelligence style jobs. Hiring the person who breaks into a military base to harden bases. Hacking in the physical space I guess.
Smugglers are probably used for black ops, but that's probably more of a contractor type situation than a hiring. Similarly contract killers that are sufficiently good probably have state level protections to some degree.
TRUMP hires the best, creme of the crop of PDF, scam artists, SA/DVers.
Scammers in general, not just hackers, get hired by the government for countermeasures. Jordan Belfort, the real guy whose life was depicted in The Wolf of Wall Street, was hired by the government to identify frauds.
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'The Dirty Dozen'
The original 'convicts on a suicide mission' movie.
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