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Story out of Tucson about a con criminal, which illustrates an important point about how con criminals see themselves.

In Tucson, Trujillo engaged in elaborate currency-exchange and real-estate schemes, the prosecutor alleged in court documents.

But before authorities could arrest him, Trujillo seemed to vanish once more, dodging private detectives hired by those he allegedly defrauded.

He resurfaced in Florida in 1987, where he again promised to connect businessmen with rich Mexican investors, according to court records.

His fortunes soured when a detective there connected him with the crimes he was wanted for in Arizona.

"This is a lifestyle," said Evans, the Arizona prosecutor, in an interview with The Times earlier this year.

"It's the old con -- he looks successful, he can talk the talk, he drops the names and can't produce because he isn't any of that."

A lifestyle - that is what the con criminal understands. Nothing else - you are merely meat for the con criminal. The worst ones are not in jail because they perform their criminal acts with grandeur, aplomb and within institutions that actually codify and legalize fraud.