The beginning of this story is pretty interesting: > But little things bothered Ervine from the beginning. Subtle social cues seemed off. Unlike other rich peo

The beginning of this story is pretty interesting: > But little things bothered Ervine from the beginning. Subtle social cues seemed off. Unlike other rich people, these folks didn't talk about fancy schools or vacation destinations. Nor was there any name-dropping — social norms he had gotten used to in his dealings with the filthy rich. > "That's part of their bravado and their egos," Ervine says. "But the Turks and Caicos never came up. Art Basel never came up." > Then one night, Ervine met the family for dinner at a Victorian house converted into a farm-to-table restaurant in the New York area. After dessert, Yalincak said his driver would be coming to get him. But out on the curb, Ervine spotted him jumping into a beat-up cab. > "The hair stood up on the back of my neck," Ervine says. > He called a friend — a military veteran with contacts at the FBI — and soon the bureau unearthed a suspicious legal trail and launched a criminal investigation. In that case, Ervine handed over the information he had collected on the family and spoke with law enforcement. > He thought the matter was over. Yalincak was convicted of fraud, sentenced to 42 months in prison and then deported. I'm not saying Yalincak didn't get what he deserved, but I can't help but think that if he had committed the same crimes, but coming from a rich family, he'd have gotten away with it. More to the point, it's disturbing to me that even if a person weren't committing fraud, they might be viewed suspiciously simply because they didn't signal wealth in the ways wealthy people expect them to.