Gondorff said at the beginning that thanks to what happened to Luther he can't get more than 3 or 400 people! So half a mil means everyone gets a little over a thousand? That's a lot of money in the Great Depression era, but enough to take such a dangerous risk?
That's my corn out there! You guys are guests in my corn!
I don't remember that exchange, but there weren't more than 50 people tops involved, and most of those were just fill for the joint and physical laborers to set up and break down the scam parlor. But even so, giving someone the equivalent of 10 to 15 thousand dollars in cash to an unemployed person during the Depression would be a pretty good pay.
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He said he can get that many, not that he did.
shareThe inside man (Gondorff gets 45%).
Kid Twist and JJ and the bank teller also got good shares. (10% or so)
All of the workers, The Erie Kid, The Big Alabama, would get around 1%.
Hooker gave up his share, so maybe they got a little more.
Plus there are expenses that need to be paid back, equipment rental, etc.
It's all detailed in "The Big Con" by David Maurer.
By the way, he says "two or three hundred"; it is on now.
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