When Lt. Commander Bobby Thompson surfaced in Tampa in 1998, it was as if he had fallen from the sky, providing no hint of his past life. Eleven years later, St. Petersburg Times investigative ...

As a Navy veteran, I was interested in Commander Bobby Thompson, a crook who operated a fraudulent Navy veterans’ charity. His crime story is covered in Jeff Testerman and Daniel Freed’s most ...

CASEY: 'Call Me Commander' is a gripping, real-life read Recall the big scandal in Richmond in 2010, when a con man flimflammed the General Assembly into enacting a law that helped him perpetuate his ...

Former Times reporter Jeff Testerman and TV producer Daniel Freed recount the gripping tale of an intelligence agent turned fraudster called Bobby Thompson. The man known in Tampa as Bobby Thompson is ...

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