{"id":11911,"date":"2011-12-15T16:08:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T21:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11911"},"modified":"2011-12-15T16:08:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T21:08:12","slug":"%e2%80%98american-gangster%e2%80%99-frank-lucas-charged-with-ss-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11911","title":{"rendered":"\u2018American Gangster\u2019 Frank Lucas Charged With SS Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWARK- <strong>Frank Lucas<\/strong>, the former heroin kingpin of New York City and the man who\u2019s life is told in \u201c<em>American Gangster<\/em>,\u201d starring <strong>Denzel Washington<\/strong> is charged with theft by deception for deceiving the U.S. Treasury.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities claim that Lucas claimed he lost a Social Security check and received a new one and then cashed them both.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank Lucas<\/strong>, who once ran a billion-dollar business smuggling heroin before going straight, could go to jail for bilking the U.S. government out of $17,300.<\/p>\n<p>Now 81 and ailing, <strong>Lucas<\/strong> was charged with theft by deception after he allegedly told the U.S. Treasury he lost a Social Security check with funds earmarked for his 15-year-old son and asked for a duplicate, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWARK- Frank Lucas, the former heroin kingpin of New York City and the man who\u2019s life is told in \u201cAmerican Gangster,\u201d starring Denzel Washington is charged with theft by deception for deceiving the U.S. Treasury. Authorities claim that Lucas claimed he lost a Social Security check and received a new one and then cashed them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}