One of the smartest and most artful swindlers to ever come to the attention of your FBI, was James Monroe Davies. Born in Shenandoah County, Virginia. Davies was well educated - a brilliant law student who failed to matriculate his final college year when his tuition money went to the horses instead of the registrar. Seeing this as a challenge, he abandoned his legal career for an illegal one that covered every known fraud. Common gossip had it, that if 'Fancy' Davies was in your corner, the opposition might as well just pack up and go home...