“Have You Seen this Man?” – No. Enough said [TELEVISION REVIEW]
ACTING DEPUTY CHIEF OF US MARSHALS ERIC RUNK, DEPUTY US MARSHAL DANIELLE SHIMCHICK in “Have You Seen This Man?” (ABC News/Frame Grab) I’m not fond of re-enactments; I don’t like cheesy music meant to underscore “big” moments; and I really hate overdone, overlong, overhyped docudramas. Congratulations ABC News Studios, you hit the trifecta. “Have You Seen this Man,” the new three part docu series on Hulu purports to present answers to the 1997 disappearance of John Ruffo, a con artist who perpetuated a scam that defrauded banks of more than $350M. Based on a podcast created by Sunny Hostin, “Have You Seen this Man” circuitously lays out the story of John Ruffo who, along with his partner, Edward Reiners, very cleverly created false entities in the name of the Philip Morris Corporation and got banks to lend them money without ever verifying if, indeed, they represented Philip Morris. Very clever, and it went on for several years. It had to continue because Ruffo and Reiners were playing the market badly and needed fresh cash to repay the older loans. This was basically a Ponzi scheme that targeted banks. Ruffo was a master at convincing others to believe his many deceptions but…
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