It appears to be a lie. Or, at least, it hasn't been confirmed by the FBI as per my reading: > “No one from the FBI has ever made a public statement about what

It appears to be a lie. Or, at least, it hasn't been confirmed by the FBI as per my reading: > “No one from the FBI has ever made a public statement about what Abagnale has or hasn’t done for them,” Logan said. “He has given some guest lectures at the academy, but he makes these outlandish statements in the media. He’s claimed to teach ethics at the FBI.” > Abagnale sticks by his stories, continuing to tell and retell them even today. > “Go to YouTube, you will see the Talks at Google that Abagnale did not that long ago. That video has been viewed over 11 million times. And he makes the claim there, still, that he was an attorney general and passed the bar exam.” > In the video, Abagnale claims that the FBI included in its 100th anniversary coffee table book a section that identifies him as the only person ever sprung out of the federal penitentiary to work for the agency. > “And I just recently … picked up a copy. There is, indeed, a beautiful coffee table book printed and published by the FBI. And Mr. Abagnale’s name, as you might suspect, is nowhere to be found within it.”