Honey, have you seen my $25 million?

The grift, the con, the flim-flam, the hotness that is Angelica Huston and Annette Bening vying for the love of John Cusack. The long history of the mountebank posing as an in-the-know is storied and some of the more famous grifts have been turned into some fine Mamet movies, even if the dialogue spews faster than an AK-47 and contains all the realism of Alchemy, 1947.

New York Magazine, this week, profiles the Yalincak clan who have a tendency to cut checks their collective ass can't cover. By a long shot.