The French Con Man Who Fooled The FBI — How A 23-Year-Old Impersonated A Missing Texas Boy And Lived With His Family For Months
The length of the sentence — six years — drew some comment at the time.
It was a serious penalty for what were essentially documentation and perjury crimes, without any violence or property theft involved.
But the harm caused by the deception — the exploitation of a grieving family, the obstruction of whatever investigation might have been conducted into Nicholas’s actual fate, the fraudulent acquisition of government documents and benefits — justified the seriousness of the punishment.
The Larger Pattern Of Bourdin’s Career
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