Field guide
Tommy Glenn Carmichael (1980s-1990s)
How it works
A leading slot-machine cheat, whom authorities called one of the best and a convicted associate called the greatest mind for developing cheating tools, who used a top-bottom joint a friend brought him, then invented the monkey paw and the light wand to steal millions over two decades. How It Was Executed: Carmichael started with the top-bottom joint in 1980, moved to the monkey paw after his 1987 prison release to beat new machines, and developed the light wand in the early 1990s. He also sold devices to others. An associate claimed payoffs of $10,000 a day, and a prosecutor said the group could make up to $10,000 a day.
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