Saul Goodman at his most brazen would have told Eric C. Conn to cool it with the billboards and the TV ads and the endless self-promotion. Why, the real-life Kentucky attorney who fancied himself as a bluegrass James Bond not only had a Statue of Liberty replica on display outside his law offices, he spent $500,000 to build a knockoff of the iconic Lincoln Memorial statue of Honest Abe.
All the while stealing more than $550 million from the U.S. government’s Social Security program, shamelessly flaunting his ill-gotten wealth, engaging in a ridiculously hedonistic lifestyle that included getting married more than a dozen times—and going on the lam in a desperate attempt to reach a country without an extradition treaty with the United States.
