Which NY swindler set fixed matches of the parlor game bunco, targeting high profile peeps, like Oscar Wilde?

Hungry Joe – aka, Joseph Lewis – worked the NYC bunco scene in the late 19th century, fixing matches and conning thousands out of high profile targets. Known as the “king of the Bunco Men," Hungry Joe went after generals, judges, politicians, even the son of President John Quincy Adams.

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