The Palm Beach hustle

GETAWAYS • Palm Beach

An FBI agent once told me that, at any given time, grifters make up about 10 percent of the world’s most prestigious zip codes. That sounds about right.

Here is my favorite con artist story. I was standing at the crowded bar at Le Bilboquet in Palm Beach. A man in his mid-50s, dressed in smart looking attire, began chatting me up. He dropped the usual lo…