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Guy Lawson

Crime

The Grand Schemes of the Petty Grifter

Jeremy Wilson spent years crisscrossing the country and inventing new identities as a war hero, an MIT grad, a Hollywood journalist, and more.

Guy Lawson GQ Jun 2019 30min Permalink

Best Article Reprints

Merv Curls Lead

Wealthy businessman Merv Bodnarchuk put together the dream team of curling. Then he put himself in the lineup.

Guy Lawson Saturday Night Apr 1999 25min Permalink

Best Article Politics World

First Canada Tried to Charm Trump. Now It’s Fighting Back.

How the relationship between Canada and America broke.

Guy Lawson New York Times Magazine Jun 2018 20min Permalink

Politics World

Trudeau's Canada, Again

A profile of new Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau.

Guy Lawson New York Times Magazine Nov 2015 15min Permalink

Crime

The Dukes of Oxy

Doug Dodd was a drug kingpin in high school. And now, like the narrator of a Scorcese film, he wants to tell his own story.

Guy Lawson Rolling Stone Apr 2015 30min Permalink

Reprints

Down and Out at the Hotel Providence

Scenes from a Bowery flophouse.

Guy Lawson Harper's Dec 1999 50min Permalink

Reprints Crime

The Inside Man

The triple life of G-Rock: upscale house painter, lifelong Crip, FBI informant.

Guy Lawson GQ Jan 2000 20min Permalink

Business Crime

The U.S. Government Is a Sham. The Federal Reserve Is Running a Secret Bond Market. Global Finance Is Controlled by an “Upperworld” of Rogue Black-Ops Fixers.

The story of a Ponzi schemer who became the mark.

Guy Lawson New York Jul 2012 20min Permalink