William McCloundy (born 1859 or 1860), also known as I.O.U. O'Brien, was an early 20th-century

confidence trickster A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using their credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed. Researchers hav ...

, from Asbury Park, New Jersey, who served a two-and-a-half-year prison term in

Sing Sing Sing Sing Correctional Facility, formerly Ossining Correctional Facility, is a maximum-security prison operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in the village of Ossining, New York. It is about north of ...

for selling the Brooklyn Bridge to a tourist in 1901.

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American confidence tricksters Criminals from New York City People from Asbury Park, New Jersey Year of birth uncertain Year of death missing 19th-century births 20th-century deaths {{US-crime-bio-stub

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